More research sometimes needed

A recent article in the Winnipeg Free Press July 23/2009 by William Mullen of the Chicago Tribune, discusses chimpanzee studies conducted in Tanzania. This article would seem to suggest that at some point this virus mutated to HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in wild chimps and that it then " jumped into the human population when infected chimp meat was eaten by humans". Maybe there are other theories and/or routes that HIV became an epidemic in continental Africa? I suggest that this journalist read the textbook by Dr. Leonard Horowitz entitled: "Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola: Nature, Accident or intentional?" I also suggest he research his references.

It seems to me that today many of our journalists may be accurate in the events they discuss but their investigations are often incomplete. As an example I cite the documentary by Christiane Amapour and aired on CNN earlier this year entitled "Scream Bloody Murder" This documentary totally excluded any reference to the largest genocide of the 20th century called "The Holodomir" orchestrated against the Ukrainians by Joseph Stalin in which some historians estimate that during the one year period 1932-1933 over 7 million and probably closer to 10 million perished including over 3 million children. At the height of the famine over 25,000 were dying daily, with the abduction of live children and cannibalism being common.

Another incomplete documentary - the trip to the moon. Granted, the Americans accomplished this feat but they may not have succeeded or been the first to do it if it were not for the Canadian physicists and other professionals who were hired in mass (over 25 of them) from Toronto when our former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker scrapped the Avro Arrow jet project. I have heard that at one time early in the project half of the top research personnel in Houston were Canadians. Also that it was one of these "recruited Canadians" who designed the Apollo rocket model. None of this ever came out when the Americans recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of this moon landing.