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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by sigmar on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:35PM (#18271255)
>raises the question of whether HIV+ individuals will be more likely to attempt to donate in order to "prove they're safe".

What? This sounds like completely made up scaremongering. Why wouldn't they just get their viral load tested?

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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by killjoywashere on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:33PM (#18271503)
Thinking of remote possibilities and assuming your patients could be lying to you (corollary: trust but verify) is pretty standard practice in medicine.
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by sigmar on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:51PM (#18271577)
and your solution to these adversarial patients that are willing to lie is to... ask a second question?
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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by killjoywashere on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:15AM (#18272766)
Whether Bayesian or Frequentist, surely you can agree the result of different tests are unlikely to have 100% concordance.
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