Yet the same year, the nation's public health officials embarked on a deliberate public-relations equio to mislead the American people into thinking that AIDS was Un equipo muy especial inexorably into the mainstream. DELIBERATELY FRIGHTENING Un equipo muy especial DECEIVING TAXPAYERS What astonishing bureaucratic hubris. " The ultimate casualty of the CDCs lies will be Americans' faith in public- health officials, heretofore generally exempt from our growing distrust in government. In Washington, D.
Yet public health officials, afraid they couldn't honestly generate support, deliberately frightened and deceived American taxpayers to get them to cough up the dough. If Kahn's model is correct, redirecting the 540 million now wasted on spreading the myth of heterosexual AIDS to high-risk groups - mostly gays and inner-city drug users - could wipe out new infections entirely.
Even more remarkable, these government officials now publicly defend their deceit. In private life, this would be known as fraud - not only a serious sin, but a crime.
The first and most obvious victims of the government's lies are the 40,000 or so Americans who this year will become HIV-positive, overwhelmingly gay men or poor, inner-city drug users and their sexual partners.
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