No miracle

Edgar Ngoma, a Zambian newspaper owner, has been running articles in which he claims to have cured AIDS. The Zambian government has stepped in, and is not pleased by what it has found:

"This chemical has not been proven by any scientific means that it cures AIDS," [said a government AIDS specialist. "But what has been proven is that it is a pesticide, which was used to disinfect swimming pools."

Not only has Ngoma given AIDS patients false hopes, he's also harmed them by luring them off their anti-retroviral therapies. Those therapies do work, even if they don't cure the disease.