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McDonald gives a version of the fallacious naturalistic argument that is more consistent with Peninsula's philosophical underpinnings. "Bad things really do happen when one violates basic laws of nature...gonorrhea, AIDS, and drug overdose...
...AIDS, but can significantly reduce other problems associated with sexuality. Statistics have shown that education has produced not only a decline in the rate of new infections of AIDS, but a decrease of as much as 95 percent among gay populations of other sexually-transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis...
...GONORRHEA. Though still common, gonorrhea is the one major STD that appears to be pulling back. The reported cases of this bacterial disease fell 10% last year, to some 700,000. That drop probably resulted from life-style changes among homosexuals. However, antibiotic-resista nt strains are appearing more frequently...
Past experience has shown that Harvard also has low incidences of such diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, Wacker says. "The lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in general speaks to the fact that probably casual sex on a pick-up basis is not very common among the group. Otherwise we would have seen a higher level of incidence compared to the rest of the population," the director says...
Contagious disease, from cholera to gonorrhea, has traditionally been fought with an array of weapons: education, vaccination, quarantine, testing for infection, reporting those infected as well as tracing and notifying others who have been exposed. Today general AIDS information programs are getting under way, but no vaccine exists. Mass confinement and quarantine are dismissed as impractical, even impossible. It is the last three options that are provoking heated controversy, as the uproar over testing shows...