Reader Response

May, 1992

"Is it really fair to say 'AIDS is an equal opportunity destroyer' and 'We're all at risk' and 'AIDS doesn't discriminate'? Or is it more accurate to say that while AIDS should be the concern of all, in the same sense that [male] breast cancer is, it is nonetheless nonsense to maintain that we are all at equal risk of getting [AIDS]?"Michael Fumento, author of The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, on the statistical distortion of the proportions of AIDS cases among the heterosexual population