{"id":8472,"date":"2002-12-28T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2002-12-28T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/28\/nih-fact-sheets-are-starting-to-include-actual-facts\/"},"modified":"2002-12-28T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2002-12-28T22:33:01","slug":"nih-fact-sheets-are-starting-to-include-actual-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/nih-fact-sheets-are-starting-to-include-actual-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH fact sheets are starting to include actual facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>In this particular case, she said the National Institutes<br \/>\nof Health convened a workshop in June 2000 to discuss new evidence about<br \/>\ncondoms. The fact sheet was based on that information and expanded beyond HIV to<br \/>\ninclude some of the other findings.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;The fact sheet uses scientific research from the<br \/>\nNational Institutes of Health that finds that although there is a lot of<br \/>\nscientific evidence to show that condom use can prevent HIV, there isn&#8217;t that<br \/>\nlevel of evidence for a lot of other sexually transmitted diseases,&#8221; Hunter<br \/>\nsaid. &#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to present a balanced approach with the scientific<br \/>\nevidence that&#8217;s available.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Uganda the only country to actually reduce the amount of people contracting<br \/>\nHIV did so not by distributing condoms but through abstinence and programs<br \/>\nfocused on morality. Just looking at this from a secular point of view: condoms<br \/>\nhave a fail rate for pregnancy 10% to 36% of the time. Now if you look at the<br \/>\nfact that women are fertile for a small amount of time and you have this high<br \/>\nfailure rate, then how about when the possibility of contracting an STD is at<br \/>\nany time. Obviously the real failure rate for diseases must be a lot higher.<br \/>\nEncouraging condom use as public policy not only gives a false sense of<br \/>\nconfidence but makes Russian Roulette a part of policy. In Russian Roulette you<br \/>\nhave a sixteen percent chance of firing on a loaded chamber in sexual Russian<br \/>\nRoulette the odds are worse if one of the people have an STD.<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Waxman was also displeased about a slight change to an<br \/>\nNCI fact sheet about breast cancer&#8217;s possible link to abortion. While the old<br \/>\nfact sheet said women who had abortions did not possess a greater risk to<br \/>\ndevelop breast cancer, the new report cited studies that showed conflicting<br \/>\nviews on the issue. [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5C%5CCulture%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200212%5C%5CCUL20021227a.html\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>]<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Conflicting views? 16 of 17 statistically significant studies report<br \/>\nincreased risk of breast cancer among women choosing an abortion. 7 studies<br \/>\nreport a more than twofold increased risk. These are not studies sponsored by<br \/>\npro-life groups but in many cases were done by groups looking for the opposite<br \/>\nresult. The only conflict is with Democrat-Feminist dogma. It is a positive<br \/>\nchange that the fact sheet is at least acknowledging the Abortion-Breast Cancer<br \/>\nlink, but it doesn&#8217;t go far enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this particular case, she said the National Institutes of Health convened a workshop in June 2000 to discuss new evidence about condoms. 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