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- From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.013618.10207@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:36:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.021106.10158@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <97979@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <97979@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.021106.10158@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, mcbean@vax writes:
- >>Am I missing sonething here?
- >
- > Yes. A few neurons. Maybe some spare glia.
-
- Thanks for the mature response...
-
- >
- >> 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).
- >
- > With what? On what? Where was there the faintest clue that there
- > was this very slow acting immune compromising sexually transmitted
- > virus out there? WHERE?
-
- Could it be possible that they were just f**king around not sure what they were
- dealing with?
-
- >
- >>It would seem logical that it wasn't genetically engineered but that
- >>don't stop them from injecting it...
- >
- > Tell us how they found it first.
-
- I was actually trying to get some information on what mayor may not have
- occurred, not engage in some nitpicking, childish diatribe. I do believe
- somebody posted a reference that retroviruses were first identified in 1910 on
- scaa. No need to get all worked up my friend, like I said I was merely trying
- to have a discussion, and you still haven't really answered any of the original
- questions.
-
- I don't have any strong background in biological sciences, so if I am missing
- something rather obvious maybe you would be kind enough to do what my missing
- neurons and ganglia would have done..
-
- > --
- > -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-
- David McBean (david%wsi@engineering.oxford.ac.uk)
-