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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
- Message-ID: <97795@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:36:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.222416.5113@engage.pko.dec.com> <9706@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
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- In article <9706@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, pmmst8+@pitt (Paul M Mweene) writes:
- >Your story is half true. Infact the Soviets picked this story from two French
- >scientists who did studies on the virus. They showed that there was no way
- >the Simian (green monkey) virus could ever evolve into HIV. They felt that a
- >more likely source was combination of the luekemia causative agent and the
- >visna virus found in sheep. I happened to read this report way back in '87
- >or '86.
-
- And it's gibberish. Look at the sequences. It's not difficult.
-
- >Similarly, German researchers debunked the monkey virus myth in 1988 (I will
- >bring the date of the New Africa magazine which has the story).
-
- Can you give me references more scientific than New Africa?
-
- > Further more
- >an high powered group of German scientists undertook a trip to the Ituri rain
- >forest where models had 'shown' the aids virus to have originated.
-
- So what? There are lots of models out there. Most of them are wrong,
- but we don't know which.
-
- >Having nailed the source of the virus to village in Zaire where the virus had
- >to have begun, they proceede to test all 15000 pygmies they found there for
- >the virus. They zero (0) infected with it.
-
- Yawn. I'm happy for them.
-
- >According to Frenc hypothesis. AIDS was created at Ft. Detrick Maryland. The
- >powers that be elected to conduct tests on long term prisoners at a nearby
- >prison. They promised them freedom if they survived the test.
-
- When was this done? How was it created?
-
- >The dates all reconciled and this story seem to be true.
-
- I repeat. When? How?
-
- The dates do not reconcile. The earliest AIDS cases are from the 50s.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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