A half-assed scientific theory
You know the new strain of HIV, right? The one that supposedly gave that New York dude full-blown AIDS in months instead of years? I don't have the timeline in front of me but I remember it being that he tested HIV-negative in November 2003, HIV-positive in late 2004, and had AIDS by early 2005.
What if the new HIV doesn't give you AIDS faster, but only appears to give you AIDS faster by creating false negatives on HIV tests for many years?
My infinitely more scientific half says this isn't completely nuts, as theories go, since there is a segment of the biology community that wonders if viruses may be intelligent.
It's been more than 20 years...it shouldn't be *too* shocking that a virus manages to evolve.
It's scary either way, but I think my version is actually scarier. Fortunately, Occam's razor says I'm wrong (plus: dammit, Jim, I'm an English major, not an evolutionary biologist!)
You know the new strain of HIV, right? The one that supposedly gave that New York dude full-blown AIDS in months instead of years? I don't have the timeline in front of me but I remember it being that he tested HIV-negative in November 2003, HIV-positive in late 2004, and had AIDS by early 2005.
What if the new HIV doesn't give you AIDS faster, but only appears to give you AIDS faster by creating false negatives on HIV tests for many years?
My infinitely more scientific half says this isn't completely nuts, as theories go, since there is a segment of the biology community that wonders if viruses may be intelligent.
It's been more than 20 years...it shouldn't be *too* shocking that a virus manages to evolve.
It's scary either way, but I think my version is actually scarier. Fortunately, Occam's razor says I'm wrong (plus: dammit, Jim, I'm an English major, not an evolutionary biologist!)
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