Did Magic Johnson fake being HIV positive?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_sp_ot/magic_johnson

I don't think so. But these guys do.

Perry responded by asking about treatable diseases that a person can live with for a long time "if you just get some basic drugs."

Baker responded, "Like Magic Johnson?"

Perry replied, "Like Magic with his faked AIDS. Magic faked AIDS."

Baker said, "You think Magic faked AIDS for sympathy?"

Perry replied, "I'm convinced that Magic faked AIDS."

"Me too," Baker said.

Johnson issued a statement Thursday saying he was "outraged that Chris Baker and Langdon Perry would minimize such a serious and deadly issue."

"Millions are dying from HIV/AIDS, and the fact that they would make jokes about my status is unbelievable," Johnson said. "Chris, Langdon and KTLK should use their power in a more positive light by encouraging people to get tested for this disease instead of making up such ridiculous lies."

Johnson was diagnosed with HIV in 1991 and then retired from the NBA at 32.
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Look at his body as the result of his drug cocktails. The guy didn't fake the disease, no one would ruin their body like that for sympathy.
 
reminded me of the Magic Johnson show with howard stern. That was such a fucking trainwreck.

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Your title is lame...as if it is an actual possibility. smh
 
That story just proves the level of douchebaggery and assitude that people will stoop.

Faking HIV/AIDS and cutting short your pro basketball career in order to get "sympathy" violates every rule of common sense I can think of ... then again these ass clowns are radio commentators and probably got their "Communications" degree from a diploma mill, so meh.
 
What possible reason would Magic have for faking HIV infection? It doesn't make sense.
 
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Seriously.

These guys shouldn't be fired for saying something offensive. They should be fired for being the biggest idiots on this planet.

Who would listen to them and take them seriously after this?
 
Minstrel said:
Why is that more likely?
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Why wouldn't it be more likely?

Name me one famous person who faked being HIV positive and I will name you a million who faked being heterosexual.

Ok, maybe not a million but I think your question must not have been meant the way it sounded. More like you asked it to get someone to go into more detail.
 
bodyman5001 said:
Why wouldn't it be more likely?

Name me one famous person who faked being HIV positive and I will name you a million who faked being heterosexual.
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Technically true, I suppose, but the implication of his comment seemed to be that there was some reason to believe he lied about being heterosexual.

Otherwise, it's akin to saying, "It's more likely he's a murderer." Technically true, since there are more murderers than people who faked being HIV+, but pointless on that level and a non sequitur.
 
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What a great player. If someone can find that episode of the Simpsons, I might rep you.
 
Minstrel said:
Technically true, I suppose, but the implication of his comment seemed to be that there was some reason to believe he lied about being heterosexual.

Otherwise, it's akin to saying, "It's more likely he's a murderer." Technically true, since there are more murderers than people who faked being HIV+, but pointless on that level and a non sequitur.
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It's pretty obvious that Magic is homosexual or bisexual and that's how he contracted HIV. The odds of getting HIV from heterosexual sex is something like 1 in 5M (1 in 50M with a condom). The odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 600K.

I don't think he shared needles. I dont think he got a blood transfusion - we'd have heard something about that as some sort of serious injury or surgery.

He claimed he didn't have homsexual sex. Sure looks like he's lying.
 
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Denny Crane said:
It's pretty obvious that Magic is homosexual or bisexual and that's how he contracted HIV. The odds of getting HIV from heterosexual sex is something like 1 in 5M (1 in 50M with a condom). The odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 600K.

I don't think he shared needles. I dont think he got a blood transfusion - we'd have heard something about that as some sort of serious injury or surgery.

He claimed he didn't have homsexual sex. Sure looks like he's lying.
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I don't care how he got it but is that really an accurate statistic? Just bringing that up since I've read some conflicting things; I'd just like to see the source.
 
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According to a report by researchers Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with someone in a non-high-risk group without a condom are one in 5 million. With a condom it's even safer--one in 50 million.

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The numbers get a lot worse if you engage in "high-risk behavior"--having sexual intercourse or sharing needles with a member of a high-risk group, e.g., a gay or bisexual male or IV drug user from a major metro area, or a hemophiliac.
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Sorry but this is what I mean, the numbers are fuzzy Denny. Magic had a bunch of intercourse...
 
huevonkiller said:
Sorry but this is what I mean, the numbers are fuzzy Denny. Magic had a bunch of intercourse...
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He had a bunch of intercourse with men.

No biggie, it's his pursuit of happyness.
 
Denny Crane said:
He had a bunch of intercourse with men.

No biggie, it's his pursuit of happyness.
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Your stats apply to "non-high-risk groups", which excludes various people. And IIRC, HIV was an exponentially greater problem in the African-American community.
 
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huevonkiller said:
I'm not sure about 1988, but in 2003 Black women were 19 times more likely to contract HIV than white women.

http://www.thebody.com/content/art8839.html

Thus I brought this up after reading that and considering how popular Magic could be with this section of society. Also he's an NBA superstar (probably more popular than Jordan back in the 80's) in the dawn of a brand new epidemic people did not worry about before.
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Magic's story is far more likely that he's been gay all his life, married to have kids and to hide his being gay, that coming out of the closet would do great harm to his career.

Unless you can provide some evidence of even a handful of female groupies who claim to have had sex with him...
 
Denny Crane said:
Magic's story is far more likely that he's been gay all his life, married to have kids and to hide his being gay, that coming out of the closet would do great harm to his career.

Unless you can provide some evidence of even a handful of female groupies who claim to have had sex with him...
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Well I saw your evidence and it used amorphous language and quite situational stats.
The following numbers are old, and they're all pretty much guesswork anyway, so take them with a grain of salt. But I venture to say most people in the field would agree with my conclusions.
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From there on out, statistically speaking, things deteriorate pretty fast. If your partner is HIV-positive, your chances of getting AIDS after one night are 1 in 5,000 with a condom, 1 in 500 without.

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Also, I have to emphasize again, the numbers involve a lot of guesswork. The authors admit they could be off by a factor of ten in either direction.
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And he's had sex thousands of times in a pretty slutty town with gorgeous women, at the top of his game when sex education wasn't quite as prominent.
 
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huevonkiller said:
Well I saw your evidence and it used amorphous language and quite situational stats.


And he's had sex thousands of times in a pretty nice party town.
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The odds say he'd have had to have had sex with an infected woman 500 times without a condom or 5000 times with.

Even if he had sex 5000 times with women, the chances they all were HIV positive is an absurd assumption.

Without a condom with a woman is risky behavior (if only pregnancy risk, considering what paternity would cost him).

The odds on getting HIV from an infected male, not using a condom, is 1 in 50.
 
Denny Crane said:
The odds say he'd have had to have had sex with an infected woman 500 times without a condom or 5000 times with.

Even if he had sex 5000 times with women, the chances they all were HIV positive is an absurd assumption.

Without a condom with a woman is risky behavior (if only pregnancy risk, considering what paternity would cost him).

The odds on getting HIV from an infected male, not using a condom, is 1 in 50.
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Depends on which type of women, and how valid these numbers are. Again he is in his prime in an environment with women who aren't "average" in various ways. Plus there's always birth control or abortion (especially in such a liberal place?) which may entice him to initiate sex without a condom. There's a lot to consider I think.
 
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huevonkiller said:
Depends on which type of women, and how valid these numbers are. Again he is in his prime in an environment with women who aren't "average" in various ways. Plus there's always birth control or abortion (especially in such a liberal place?) which may entice him to initiate sex without a condom. There's a lot to consider I think.
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Consider he's gay.
 
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