Scientist blames Vatican dogma for AIDS pandemic

By Annabel Crabb, London
December 4, 2005

AUSTRALIA'S most distinguished expatriate scientist, Lord May of Oxford, has launched an attack on the Catholic Church, blaming Vatican policy for the spread of AIDS in the Third World.

Lord May said that the Vatican's opposition to the use of condoms was an example of "dogma" leading to the deliberate misrepresentation of facts, at great human cost.

The Sydney-born scientist's words came in his final speech delivered as president of Britain's Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific organisation, past presidents of which include Isaac Newton and Joseph Banks.

Speaking in London, Lord May described AIDS as a pandemic, with more than 40 million people infected across the world. He quoted a UN report from June that said effective and essential prevention strategies "reach only a fraction of those who need them".
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/scientist-blames-vatican-dogma-for-aids-pandemic/2005/12/03/1133422148302.html

I have to admit that I've thought the same from time to time. I had thought that the science vs. religion debate had ended, but it seems that religion caught a second wind.

That's all I gotta say!

:applause:

Will the church ever get common sensical about sex? I sorta had hoped that the last Pope would have eventually changed his mind. But he would have had to life for a 1000 years first.

But with Ratzinger, no way.

It's a good thing I'm not Catholic. I couldn't bear it. I barely tolerate the liberal protestant stances on sex.

lord may rocks!:yourock: