Nieft / Secola wrote:
>
> axel:
> >viruses are not beings or living entities! it is
> >impossible that they DO something, for the same reason it is impossible that
> >chairs or rocks DO something to somebody, like "the chair hurted me", or
> >"the rock attacked me", or "a tiny piece of dead tissue hurted me".
> >how can dead pieces of matter get out of control? do chairs get out of
> >control?
>
> You have never appeared more ignorant, axel. Viruses are bits of genetic
> code with a delivery system. Cells have receptor sites to usher them into
> the cell. They do all sorts of things in all sorts of plants and animals.
> Even in some microbes which aren't properly plants OR animals. Viruses are
> not properly living OR dead, but they are a helluva lot different than a
> rock.

True, but I think axel is correct when he says that HIV is a hoax.
It might exist, and it might not; either way, the theory that it
causes AIDS is far from proven.

Carol