And Patrick, discrimination better or worse in Africa, where people are very familiar with HIV, and how does the fact that now, when people are on treatment and they're adherent -- which, by the way, isn't easy. You have to take almost every pill every month to achieve viral suppression, to achieve complete adherence, which will, in turn, suppress the level of the virus
And we have to be kind and compassionate because texts say so. So he was an adherent of the text. And he applied it to the context.
And the reason why I'm going back to language is because, again, how many people are familiar with like "Getting Things Done?" OK. How many are productivity adherents to some kind of system or another? Right? OK, cool. So it's good that you're not all that way because I think these systems, it's sort of like being like, oh, I'm an
It's in our book. And 11% of the patients were non-adherent .
It may come as a surprise, but when "Star Trek" was first telecast shortly after the Civil War, I was not among its adherents . What I saw was a lot of folks running around cheesy sets wearing what looked like Dr. Dentons and a man with pointy ears.
So the point is-- not to be facetious about it, because I do think there is validity in comparing a true story to history. no film is valid if it's not perfectly adherent to the facts.
It's in our book. Also, if you're truly a paleo adherent , you're not going to eat dairy products, because the ideology believes that, well, when we were in the paleolithic times,
Anna's seen him speak. Tim Ferriss. Anybody a Tim Ferriss adherent ? Is anybody-- you are?
It would've been easy, after everything that had happened to him, and after the enormity of the crime against this city, to succumb to hatred of the religion in whose name these things were done, and of its adherents , too. Anyone who looked even vaguely Arab experienced some of that backlash in those weeks and months of aftermath.
It survived lunacies like Prohibition, I mean for God's sake. I don't want to offend any die-hard people that are temperance adherents . But it seems pretty astonishing to me that that could be not only legislation, but in the Constitution, that you're not allowed to buy or liquor.
It is interesting to me-- we could talk about it in the discussion session-- it is interesting to me how liberal education, although it's under enormous pressure in the United States, is attracting adherents like never before in China, in Korea, in India, where there is a great dissatisfaction with rote education and exam-based education, and a growing interest in what we might call liberal education.
And I want to put a little gloss on that because I think that one of the things-- and again, this is the dual messages that we need to send because really, it's the other aspects of a person's life that affect their ability to be adherent , right? And it's things about unstable housing, right, or food security, lack of transportation, all these other things that-- Displaced.
And I think it's really important that we send the message that-- well, one, that it's a public health issue. That first and foremost, these HIV criminalization laws are affecting our ability to get people to step up and to get tested, to remain in treatment, to remain adherent to their medications. If you're trying to hide your HIV status from sexual partners, well, then there's a chance that you're not going to take
Pam: Uhh. Barry Salzman: She's not telling. my take is slightly original, but not so much. I'm much more of an adherent to the tradition world than the experimentation or, for lack of a better word, the molecular gastronomy
So I'll bring in all the skeptics, I'll bring in all the people who are interested in consciousness, and I suddenly found that there was a bunch of really high level scientists including Nobel laureates, not Ignoble laureates, -- presenter: Dr. Deepak Chopra: but Nobel laureates who were closet spiritual, consciousness adherents . presenter: Sure. Dr. Deepak Chopra: And I said, "Let me bring them out of the closet.
there aren't other parts, but you know, the Bible is a big book, you know? Muslim history is 1,400 years long, right? There are clearly contradictory dimensions to, to both scripture and to the history of a religious tradition. And at the end of the day, adherents of different traditions, whether its Hinduism or Humanism, choose which parts of that tradition that they're gonna emphasize, that they're gonna be inspired by, right?
and they're adherent -- which, by the way, isn't easy. You have to take almost every pill every month to achieve viral suppression, to achieve complete adherence, which will, in turn, suppress the level of the virus in the blood to an undetectable level, which means that you can't transmit the virus to somebody else, whether that's a baby, or a sexual partner,