Abstract
I chose the title Anecdotal Evidence for this article because, regardless of its derivation, there is an indisputable element of truth in one's personal experience of an event. Anecdotal is data gathered in studies of pharmacological agents on human beings that cannot necessarily be measured against the parameters of the scientific study but that is still deemed to be of collateral importance to the investigation. Whether it be the moving accounts of concentration camp survivors, the family histories of descendants of former slaves or the carefully sewn text on a panel of the Names Project's AIDS Quilt, these personal, oral histories constitute the anecdotal evidence that must be weighed vis-a-vis the frequently specious accounts of the official press release, the commercial media, the partisan historical chronicler or the photo opportunist. At the close of its first decade in America, AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) seems to have lost its ability to gamer headlines. Even supermarket tabloids-the once rabid harbingers of doom and death-now consign the subject to third-page innuendo in their rather haphazard campaign of alarmist disinformation.
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