Saturday, November 8, 2008

The Origins of Aids

There are a number of ideas about AIDS which make claims about the origins and/or nature of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS that differ radically from scientific consensus. These range from suggestions that AIDS was the inadvertent result of experiments in the development of vaccines, to claims that HIV was developed by scientists working for the U.S. government.




While at some point in the past, some of these theories were investigated as reasonable hypotheses within the scientific community, this is no longer the case: present evidence is taken by the vast majority of the scientific community, to indicate that AIDS originated in Africa in the mid 1930s from the closely related Simian immunodeficiency virus, today found in monkeys and chimpanzees (see AIDS origin).





This BBC documentary takes a close look at some of the more prevelant theories, attempting to distinguish between fact and fiction.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Definitely one of the most fantastic and disturbing documentaries I have seen.

Anonymous said...

Criminal. Fucking criminal. I am not one for conspiracy theories but there is something wrong here. There has to be something governing science. This is just one more instance like the Muskeegee men injected with syphilis.

Dave said...

I wonder how much research has been done on these scientists. What are their backgrounds? Pro-nazi? Members of any special groups? Recipients of any special funding? What kind of a scientist does not keep notes?

Scary stuff!

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