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| A Dreadful Secret: HIV was Created in a Lab... There are numerous conspiracies as to the origins of the AIDS virus. Some of these theories allege that HIV was created by a conspiratorial group or by a secretive agency such as the CIA. The most popular theory is that it was created in a military lab by the United States government as a political/ethnic weapon against Africans and "other races" and as a tool for depopulation. Other theories suggest that the virus was created as an experiment in biological and/or psychological warfare, and then escaped into the population at large by accident. Some who believe that HIV was a government creation as was the precedent for it in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which government-funded researchers deceptively denied treatment to black patients infected with a sexually transmitted disease. It has been claimed that the CIA deliberately administered HIV to African Americans and homosexuals in the 1970s, via tainted hepatitis vaccinations. Groups such as the New Black Panther Party and Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam assert that this was part of a plan to destroy the black race. Others claim that it was administered in Africa as a way of crippling the development of the continent. Although the official stance of the scientific community is that AIDS originated in Africa in the 1930s from the closely related Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. Clyde Lewis on "Hepatiis B Vaccine and the Creation of AIDS"  The official stance of the scientific community is that AIDS originated in Africa in the 1930s passing from animal to human from the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. |
