AIDS

topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes

American Optimist Capital Allocators the a16z Podcast

4 statements about AIDS, every show

a16z Assertion Partly supported
Horowitz: Early AIDS transmission was almost entirely gay sex and IV drugs
“It was spread like 98% or 95% through gay sex, and, you know, the rest through intravenous drug use, and almost none, it turns out, through heterosexual sex.”
Ben Horowitz Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 46:58 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
a16z What-if
Horowitz: Closing bathhouses early would have prevented 75% of AIDS deaths
“Like those kinds of measures would have worked or, you know, would have prevented probably 75% of the deaths.”
Ben Horowitz Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 48:56 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Partly supported
Milken: Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate has fallen to 2%
“A woman today has a two percent chance of passing AIDS on to her child. Down from 95% 20 years ago.”
Michael Milken Feb 26, 2024 ▶ 1:05:14 Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Nov 2024
Gallagher: Americans can easily buy dangerous pathogens like HIV online
“You right now, Joe, could go online and buy, you could buy, you could definitely buy AIDS, you could buy MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. There's no tripwires in place for the purchase of this stuff,”
Congressman Mike Gallagher Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 16:13 Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale

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