Fell behind on this last week. This is the fourth week in a row I am doing my "Articles They Don't Want You to See" feature. This week I want to highlight science...the science they don't want you to understand. Specifically Evolution, Global Warming and the HIV/AIDS connection. I write about the first two topics a great deal and will draw from earlier diaries I have written. The HIV/AIDS connection is something I only recently realized had a denial lobby associated with it that needed countering. I am a scientist and have been a scientist during the bulk of the history of AIDS research. Almost took a job in Seattle working on an AIDS vaccine (moved to NYC instead). I knew that there were deniers in South Africa and that is a major problem in Africa, but now I have encountered HIV/AIDS deniers on dKos and realize I can suggest some articles regarding that issue as well.

Earlier this week, I posted about David Kuo's new book Tempting Faith.  People have been wondering out loud after the book's release this week if the Religious Right would freak out and live up to the titles given them by some in the Bush Administration ("whackos," "nuts," etc.)  Well, whether they've read the book or not, check this out...

Product (RED), an initiative conceived by Bono to get international brands to market and support the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, & Malaria, officially hit American shores Friday.  I have a feeling that many readers are wondering what on earth it is and that most readers cock their heads when they hear "Bono" and "Global Fund" in the same sentence (albeit for dramatically different reasons, depending on what you think of Bono).  Regardless, you won't be wondering for much longer.  But the question I have to ask is, "Why didn't you know in the first place?"

To head off any confusion, the question I'm proffering here is: Is PTSD as radioactive to the Bush administration as AIDS was to Reagan's? I'm not comparing the two illnesses with one another.

Since Vice President Dick Cheney is currently the big buzz in news these days, I thought I'd be clever and come up with a post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] angle to the story.

As I began my search for that PTSD angle, I found Cheney to be as accommodating to me as he was to the local Texas authorities last weekend. It seems our Vice President, who proclaims to support our troops, has apparently never gone on record uttering the term `post-traumatic stress disorder.'

Even though it is now reported that 40,000 troops have returned from combat showing symptoms of mental health disorder, Cheney's made absolutely no acknowledgement of the problem in any of his speeches or remarks. As a matter of fact, neither has our President:

The Reagan administration also had a problem uttering another deadly acronym: AIDS. Isn't it ugly how our leaders try to banish what they don't want to acknowledge? It's also very dangerous...