Iran Claims Found Cure For AIDS

[babsbunny]

On the same day that Iranian scientists claimed that they have discovered a herbal cure for AIDS, President Ahmadinejad vowed that on February 11 the Islamic Republic's nuclear rights "will be established."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Iran_claims_found_herbal_cure_for_0204.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Leave it to the Neocons to find the only country on earth

as crazy as they are to play war games with.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. How horrible for the citizens of Iran to know that the cabal has them in their sights.

The Mullahs and Ahmadinejad are trying everything under the sun to keep from being bombed. They're probably pretty f***ing pissed at this situation, as well.

We must stop the war machine, now. MKJ

[BayCityProgressive]

2. lol

okay. I'll believe it when I see it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. The article calls it an herbal remedy, and then a drug

but it is not clear exactly what is in it. Wonder if it contains some of the immune system boosters already known to herbologists?

[TheMadMonk]

13. How about both? (And probably)

A good many drugs are herbal in origin.

[MonkeyFunk]

23. Not many

anti-retrovirals, though.

Are there even any herbal anti-viral cures?

[Meldread]

4. LOL. I'm sorry, but...

...my first reaction was to laugh. I'll believe it when I see it.

I hope it's true, but it is highly unlikely.

[BayCityProgressive]

6. perhaps next

North Korea will end world hunger?

[Meldread]

11. Nah! North Korea cures Cancer,

Iraq ends world hunger, then Iran gets angry that they are being out done, and builds the first Mars space colony! Of course, this just creates a cycle where North Korea then harnesses the full potential of Nano Technology, Iraq creates artificial stars and harnesses the energy they provide, Iran creates the first fully genetically engineered human like species... and on and on.

[poverlay]

14. Iraq doesn't end world hunger... Ethiopia does... Of Course! n/t

[Nutmegger]

5. And Bush Inc wants to bomb them.

:nuke:

[teenagebambam]

7. Exactly.

Doesn't this just give them one more reason? Don't want any potential profits slipping away from Bush's pharmaceutical pals.

[babsbunny]

9. Remember, we just heard about a cure for Cancer

I only heard about it here, on DU!

[MonkeyFunk]

19. no

nobody heard about a cure for cancer. There's a report of a drug that kills cancer cells in a petri dish. That's far, far away from a cure.

[kenny blankenship]

10. It's called hemlock, they give it to all their HIV patients and those "at risk" for HIV

as a preventative as well as curative medicine. According to public health officials in Tehran, incidents of HIV are "dropping to zero."

[A Simple Game]

15. Not one Aids fatality since they started giving Hemlock treatments. n/t

[kenny blankenship]

17. Taken as directed this herbal remedy is 100% effective

as an antibiotic.

[originalpckelly]

12. That's very interesting. Most Americans know nothing of the advanced medical research...

going on in Iran. They are doing a lot of research with embryonic stem cells as well. I don't know, this may very well be propaganda, but oddly enough you'd be surprised that Western drug companies scour the Earth talking to shamans and witch doctors about their herbal remedies, because often they are really based off of chemicals in the herbs.

[Telly Savalas]

16. Did I get here too early

for the "Bush will invade Iran in order to suppress the cure and protect the interests of Big Pharma" sub thread?

[MonkeyFunk]

20. Nope!

See post 7.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. I wish they'd discover a cure

for gullibility.

[incapsulated]

21. Lemme guess...

Does it involve executing all the gay Iranians?

[leftofthedial]

22. there's another reason

to nuke them back to the stone age

damned heathens

[slackmaster]

25. That would eliminate AIDS from a population too

:nuke:

[slackmaster]

24. A bullet to the head cures AIDS every time

So does hanging by the neck.