AIDS conspiracy theories
Because the world-wide spread of AIDS has had such a tragic effect on millions of people world wide, a number of myths, urban legends, and conspiracy theories have arisen surrounding the disease. Perhaps some of these serve as a psychological mechanism for people to cope with the epidemic, or perhaps in some cases, as a device to lay blame on someone for the epidemic.
A number of conspiracy theorists have suggested that AIDS is actually a man-made disease. These theories often state that the disease was meant to deliberately wipe out a certain segment of the population in an act of genocide.
Dr. Boyd E. Graves postulates that AIDS was the culmination of biowarfare research conducted by the U.S. Government (and later, by the Soviet government) throughout the 20th century. He believes AIDS was developed and proliferated for the primary purpose of wiping out blacks, gays, and other social groups considered to be "excess population." Dr. Graves has also suggested that Gulf War syndrome may be related to AIDS which was spread by contaminating them with the vaccines, and that an effective cure for AIDS has already been developed and patented (1997 United States Patent 5,676,977) by a company called Antelman Technologies Ltd., Providence, Rhode Island, but is being withheld. The evidence tha AIDS was developed in U.S. was based on 1971 Special Virus Cancer Flow Chart that he obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The reason for his interest was he got AIDS and was apparently cured using the a 20 minute one time injection 40 ppm of Tetrasil/Imusil or tetrasilver tetroxide (a special oxidized form of colloidal silver). Under the U.S. patent it is claimed a 100% destruction of AIDS using only 20 ppm of silver. The production of the product is based on 1994 United States Patent 5,336,499 by reacting silver nitrate with sodium or potassium peroxydisulfate. The company that makes the product is Weizmann Institute in Israel or Antelman Technologies, POB 382, Rehovat, Israel and Marantech is currently supplying the Imusil.
Dr. Alan Cantwell, author of AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, believes that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by US Government scientists; that it was introduced into the population through hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978-1981 in Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Denver, and Chicago (these experiments were directed by Dr. Wolf Szmuness); and that there is an ongoing government and media cover-up regarding the origin of the AIDS epidemic. Similar theories have been advanced by Dr. Robert B. Strecker and by Milton William Cooper, author of Behold A Pale Horse.
Matilde Krim, a cancer virologist, AIDS expert, and the co-chairperson of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, has also suggested that Dr. Wolf Szmuness' hepatitis B vaccination experiments of the late 70's caused the AIDS epidemic. Unlike Cantwell, however, she attributes this to accident rather than conspiracy.
Several conspiracy theorists, among them Dr. William C. Douglas, believe that the World Health Organization created the AIDS epidemic by administering contaminated smallpox vaccines to people in third world countries (including Africa) between 1966 and 1977. Dr. Robert Gallo, famous for discovering HIV, lent credence to this theory when he said, "the link between the World Health Organization [vaccination] program and the [AIDS] epidemic in Africa is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV".
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola. Nature, Accident or Intentional? and Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, has advanced the theory that the AIDS virus was engineered by such US Government defense contractors as Litton Bionetics for the purposes of bio-warfare and "population control." Dr. Horowitz believes that Jews, blacks, and hispanics are prime targets in these attempts at "population control." He cites the historical preoccupation with eugenics on the part of the American medical establishment as evidence of a greater conspiracy to commit genocide.
Jakob Segal, a biology professor at Humboldt University in the former East Germany, believes that HIV was engineered at a US military laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland by splicing together two other viruses, Visna and HTLV-1. According to his theory, the new virus, created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prison inmates who had volunteered for the experiment in exchange for early release. It was through these prisoners that the virus was spread to the population at large, starting with the gay community. Segal has been accused of being a Soviet disinformation agent.
Some conspiracy theories on the origins of AIDS carry anti-Semitic overtones. Some African-Americans in the US believe that HIV was invented by Jews as a way to destroy the black race. Such theories have been propagated for years, first by Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, and by the New Black Panther Party, as well as by a number of professors in various small colleges. Conspiracy theorist Steve Cokely has made allegations that Jewish doctors have injected black babies with HIV.
Dr. Gary Glum in his somewhat government suppressed book Full Disclosure explained he had received top secret information that AIDS was made in the laboratory at Cold Creek Harbor, New York. The virus was made from a pig and later put into corpse until the virus survived. The virus was spread by putting the AIDS viruses into the smallpox eradication program by the World Health Organization. Therefore he claimed that AIDS did not exist before 1978. The basis of this was for population control especially of Blacks, Asians, and other colored people. The people who control the project were people known as the Olympians (the net calls it the Illuminati), who are the people supporting eugenics program such as Rockefeller, Harriman, etc. The major controversy arising from this book is that AIDS can be easily infected from cockroaches, blood sucking flies and even kissing. Another major controversy is that he claims to have a cure for AIDS but refused to reveal it for fear of his own life. However he gave clues that virus can be cured using herbal medicine which will prevent AIDS viruses from attaching and penetrating the cells, rather than through control replication. The only herbal medicine that can do that is known by the public is licorice extract, which prevents AIDS from attaching and penetrating the cells. Its been known that people who are HIV positive do not get AIDS provided that licorice extracts are taken regularly. The one glitch to the licorice extract to work in curing AIDS is that it must be taken in fairly large amounts - way beyond the size of a regular pill. Another product that also prevent AIDS from attaching healthy cell is a lecithin mixture called by the AIDS community as AL 271 (developed in Israel)or x-plaque, which is roughly (there are many versions) a lecithin mixed with some egg yolk and sometimes mixed with coconut oil (contains antiviral monolaurin and lauric acid). However, Gary Glum in his previous book (another conspiracy theory on cancer) The Calling of an Angel, mentions some success with using of Essiac Tea, which is an Indian folk medicine for treatment of cancer. Still, with all these clues these treatment alone does not cure AIDs.
South African President Thabo Mbeki and other prominent members of the ruling African National Congress party have made numerous public statements to the effect that AIDS is caused by poverty and not the HIV virus, and that people who supposedly die of AIDS have actually been poisoned through antiretroviral medication by white-owned drug companies that wish to experiment on Africans. Mbeki and others frequently interfered with government AIDS drug distribution programs through the legal system. Nonetheless, after massive public outcry, the ANC government announced in 2003 that it will begin distributing antiretroviral AIDS drugs to infected citizens.
Some conspiracy theorists believe the claim that AIDS was created by scientists to be false and to have originated from a communist Cold War plot to destabilize the Western world. They believe this claim was originally disseminated in the West by KGB agents seeking to undermine the faith of citizens in their own government (see: propaganda, black propaganda, disinformation). Mikhail Gorbachev once purportedly said that he felt sorry the KGB had planted and actively supported such stories in the Western world.
On the other hand, the US Government has an established history of performing atrocious experiments on its own citizens without their knowledge or consent. Between 1932 and 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a covert experiment called the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. In this experiment, the Public Health Service deliberately deprived black, syphilis-infected residents of Tuskegee, Alabama of treatment in order to see what would happen to them. Between 1953 and 1972, the CIA conducted secret experiments on unwitting human subjects under the umbrella of project MK Ultra. The full nature and scope of these experiments may never be known, since most of the records on MK Ultra were deliberately destroyed by the CIA in 1972. What is known, however, is that some of these experiments involved: electro-shock treatment, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, administration of psychoactive drugs, psychosurgery, the effects of radiation, the testing of chemical and biological weapons on American city streets, "brainwashing" and "mind control", interrogation and torture techniques. The US Army has admitted to conducting similar experiments.
Whether the conspiracy theories are valid or not, it is certain that the military-industrial complex has an interest in the development of biological weapons that can target genetically similar groups of people.|biological weapons]] that can target genetically similar groups of people. From the September 2000 white paper Rebuilding America's Defenses, published by the Project for the New American Century, comes the statement: "[...] forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
There have been conspiracy theories about earlier epidemics, such as blaming the Jews or some monarchal orders for the Black Death.
See also: AIDS myths and urban legends
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AIDS | AIDS myths and urban legends | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | Conspiracy Theories | Conspiracy theory | Duesberg hypothesis | Gay disease | Gay plague | HIV infection
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