State Rep. Ryan Haynes
Broadcast Date: February 12, 2012
The legislative season is heating up in Nashville. State Rep. Ryan Haynes, who represents Knox County's District 14 in the Tennessee General Assembly, joins Gene Patterson in the first segment of this week's show to discuss some of the legislation under debate.
Also discussed this week are changes we should expect for education in Tennessee now that the Obama Administration has granted a waiver for some No Child Left Behind regulations.
Joining Gene later in the show are 6 News political analyst George Korda, Cortney Piper of Piper Communications, and Craig Griffith, who was a deputy to former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe.
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#1 math/logic problem
WATE, the fastest growing segment of the US population to get HIV is heterosexuals. No argument.
Campfield said "it is virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual relations". No argument.
On today's show it was claimed that Campfield misinformed the public. I think what Campfield said wasn't a good thing to do. But that isn't the point.
The problem is your math, actually your reasoning, is faulty.
In 2009 according to the CDC 12,860 heterosexual people in the US were inflected with HIV that year. No argument. You can find that easily. Check it out.
Do you now see the problem? There are 313 million people in America. If you take out those under 20 years old you have 227 million Americans left.
Do the math. What is the percentage of the 227 million heterosexual Americans who got HIV in 2009?
In 2009 the 12,860 heterosexual people in America that were infected with HIV was .00567 of a percent of the American population over 20 years old.
So who is misinforming the public?
You have fallen for the oldest trick in the books. Now, what are you going to do about it? Why discuss the fastest growing segment getting HIV when you neglect the percent to total?
I know this is a sensitive issue. But you do have an obligation to cover the entire subject.
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