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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:59:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.021106.10158@vax.oxford.ac.uk> mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.051857.25110@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- >> In article <ISBELL.92Nov9074842@panther.ai.mit.edu> isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
- >>>thf2@quads.uchicago.edu (Mmmm... Purple) writes:
- >>>|>|I've seen a similar stat somewhere. The theory has been most recently
- >>>|>|espoused by noted epidemologist and viral specialist Spike Lee, and the
- >>>|>|media's been dutifully reporting his ravings.
- >>>|>Spike Lee aside, have any of you read _Bad Blood: The Tuskegee
- >>>|>Syphilis Experiment_?
-
- >>>|No, but I'm aware of it.
-
- >>>|>Since the events described therein are true and
- >>>|>given the other facts of recent history, why would anyone actually be
- >>>|>surprised that there is a large minority of people who believe such
- >>>|>things about AIDS, etc? And in fact, why would anyone dispute the
- >>>|>reality, however remote, of the possibility?
-
- >> Sigh.
-
- >> It is impossible because tissue samples containing AIDS dating back to
- >> the fifties have been found preserved at various hospitals arround the
- >> world. Back in the fifties we did not have the faintest idea how to
- >> create a disease like AIDS. Therefore, AIDS was not created by anyone
- >> unless it was by accident (ala the Wistar theory.)
-
- >Am I missing sonething here? They didn't create syphillis but they sure as
- >hell experimented with it, so why couldn't AIDS experiments have been conducted
- >(irrespective of whether they did or not). It would seem logical that it
- >wasn't genetically engineered but that don't stop them from injecting it...
- >Whether it was done I leave that to you guys to thrash out.
-
- McBean, they didn't spread it to experiment with it because by the
- time they knew it existed and was interesting they had a full fledged
- epidemic on their hands and plenty of people available begging to be
- experimented on.
-
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