Religion and Statistics FAIL
A reasonable article highlighting some of the troubles with the Roman Catholic church: Pope says condoms are not the solution to Aids - they make it worse -Times Online
I can only second the opinion that those who don’t know what they’re talking about should stay quiet on the matter; and yet it’s not as though the Pope doesn’t have advisors so one would expect a little understanding to creep in somewhere.
I notice the inconsistency in position within the hierarchy - “use of condoms could sometimes be exceptionally condoned” - make your collective minds up, either their use is a sin or not, and we don’t go in for seeing it as this “lesser of two evils” rubbish.
Reading on “condoms had tiny holes in them” and referring to condoms as a `”net”‘, complete with scare-quotes, smacks of crude urban myth
There are two ways of looking at this that come to mind:
- First, this shows a lack of refinement in collective thought. There is no attempt to say “this is the best data we have, let’s plan accordingly”; the message is unclear. The message muddies the facts: there is some merit in saying that sexual abstinence will eliminate the spread of HIV+AIDS through sexual means, of course. That doesn’t take into account the facts that people still go at it like rabbits, or that there are other means of transmission that also need tackled. The message that condoms increase instance of the disease is completely wrong; it spreads because of those who, believing the RCC’s message, do *not* use condoms, rather than those who do!
- Secondly, it shows the RCC uses sex as a vector for control rather than freedom.