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Chambers tells AIM that he is troubled by the practice of national news organizations giving money to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). All major news organizations, including Fox News, have given grants to NLGJA. Chambers recalls an official of the group advising the press not to cover former homosexuals because it would be comparable to quoting the Ku Klux Klan about civil rights. That is the mind-set that guides the media on this matter.

The AIDS Theory

In a related matter, questions about the HIV/AIDS theory are not considered worthy of media attention, even though the U.S. has spent about $200 billion on HIV/AIDS and an AIDS vaccine since 1981 without a cure being found. An international organization of more than 2,300 scientists, medical doctors, journalists, health advocates and business professionals has formed "Rethinking AIDS," (web site) in order to raise those questions. Among other things, it points out that the definition of AIDS in Africa does not require HIV testing and that symptoms of a disease said to be AIDS are compatible with symptoms of malnutrition. As such, critics of the AIDS theory argue that "AIDS in Africa" should be fought with a campaign to raise living standards, not force controversial and potentially toxic anti-AIDS drugs on the populace. Nevertheless, an international airline tax is now being collected to buy and distribute these controversial drugs to people around the world, especially in Africa. The campaign is being waged with the backing of the United Nations.

On this matter, the Fox News website did perform a public service, running a column (web site) in 2005 by Jonathan M. Fishbein on how he uncovered widespread scientific and professional misconduct at the National Institutes of Health Division of AIDS. Fishbein, whose case is the subject of the Honest Doctor (web site) website, charges that the agency "knowingly and cunningly covered up evidence of shoddy conduct in a trial examining the safety and efficacy of [anti-AIDS drug] nevirapine to prevent the maternal-to-child ("vertical") transmission of the deadly AIDS virus." Yet a Google search will disclose very few stories in the major media about the Fishbein allegations.

Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design

Like the AIDS and man-made global warming theories, Darwin's theory of evolution is another accepted truth, as far as most of the media are concerned. The emerging scientific theory of intelligent design is typically panned by the media as religious in nature. The Discovery Institute maintains a blog (web site) completely devoted to misreporting of the evolution issue, documenting how "much of the news coverage has been sloppy, inaccurate, and in some cases, overtly biased." The bias was reflected in the non-coverage, in December of 2004, of atheist philosopher Antony Flew's pronouncement that advancements in science, especially in DNA research, had convinced him of the existence of God.

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