so wait... people should have sex without condoms?

The Vatican, internationally known for its vigorous and objective scientific research, has declared that condoms do not prevent the spread of AIDS. This in the face of the insistence of the World Health Organization that while condoms can break, there aren't "holes" in them big enough to allow HIV through them. You know the WHO, right? The branch of the UN whose job it is to worry about health around the world. Somehow the Catholic Church's primary mission strikes me as a bit different.

What's unfortunate is that there could be a kernel of truth to the Church's argument: if condoms make people feel invincible and increase promiscuity, it's entirely plausible that, due to condom breakage, rates of infection would also increase. But somehow I'm imagining that people are having sex around the world regardless of the availability of condoms. Besides, the solution to condom breakage shouldn't be declaring, "Don't use condoms!" Instead, there should an increased emphasis on correct usage of condoms, thus minimizing the rates of breakage.

Here's the Onion take on the Catholic position on contraception from a few years back.