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...read Jeff Wise's editorial of December 17 with dismay. I have spent the past semester researching AIDS and what I have learned strongly contrasts with Wise's argument for the quarantine. It is unfortunate that there are others who are also seriously considering such extreme and inappropriate measures...
...tables have been turned on us." There is in our society a kind of diseased journalism which has an "incredible virulence." I mean to identify a syndrome, the symptoms of which Jeff Wise exemplifies: irresponsibility on the part of the journalist (avoiding doing the necessary background research to write cogently on an issue); loss of logic (note Wise's thought process: Diseases were dealt with poorly, doctors learned how to find cures, a new disease defies cure, so we should deal with disease defies cure, so we should deal with diseases poorly as we did in the first place...
...diseased journalism is harmful, easily transmitted. Someone might actually take Jeff Wise seriously. If enough people take him seriously, a whole community will be infected with a destroyed sensitivity to human rights...
Thus, I propose, and it is "the only feasible option we have right now," that we isolate journalists like Jeff Wise and protect the society at large form harmful editorials and irresponsible journalism. Wise should not mind, really. His article indicates he does not think much of the rights of individuals anyway. Peter Gadol...
...commentary piece advocating the "isolation" of AIDS carriers, Jeff Wise writes that "no society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of defency." Yet Mr. Wise's comments belie this sentiment. He is eager to ignore the faces of AIDS in his zealousness to ship AIDS carries to concentration camps--oops, I mean "special treatment centers...