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by CluedOut on January 24th, 2008

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Do you ever wonder if our scientific understanding of AIDS is terribly flawed? Do you think it may be caused by something other than the HIV virus? Do you think the HIV=AIDS hypothesis could be politically motivated?

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  • by Persky Bunkermeister on January 24th, 2008

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    No. No. Unlikely. HIV/AIDS spawned a huge research industry. People are studying it all over the world. Even if there was political motivation in one country -- another country would have a different political reality. Even if the scientific understanding is wrong -- we still know the high-risk behaviors that can lead to HIV infection. That is determined through statistical analysis. The only people that are dying of AIDS these days, are the ones that for one reason or another, don't take their meds, and continue making lifestyle choices that further suppress their immune system.

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  • by Im BACK on April 18th, 2009

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    No, the research is not flawed. There are plenty of scientists that have the same conclusion: HIV is a real virus.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on August 31st, 2009

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    No. That hypothesis, which has a moments plausibility in the early days of AIDS research, has now been thoroughly disproved. The structure and mode of operation of the HIV virus is now very well understood, the stages of infection very well traced. What was a perfectly honourable skeptical viewpoint in the days when the disease first appeared is now straightforward counterfactual denial. Some people doubted that Columbus had found a new continent - I don't think anybody credibly denies the existence of America now.

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  • by Orangepowder on August 31st, 2009

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    No, I think it is a virus...not like the flu virus...but similar in the way it is understood,,,scientists may have a clue as to how it started...probably in the realm of RNA...but they either have a cure, and are not sharing because sharing it is..not economically advantageous; they have a cure, and it has not been tested; the one they have found can create something else, or they don't friggin have a clue because the science of DNA and RNA is not so old ....Read about RNA and DNA, and you will be amazed.

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  • by Thriftymaid on July 19th, 2011

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    No. I think you cluedout and never cluedbackin

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on February 3rd, 2011

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    No, the origin puzzled scientists for a while, but it is now fairly clear that HIV was caught from monkeys, and that different variants of HIV came form different species of monkeys. Monkeys have obviously been carrying the virus for quite some time because they have evolved a considerable immunity to it, so SIV (the monkey versions of HIV) do not cause nearly so much problem for them.

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  • by LarryH54 on July 19th, 2011

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    HIV is probably a virus engineered from SIV by the WHO in order to begin depopulating an 'overpopulated' planet. Social Engineers always take the direct path to their goal. So instead of engaging Capitalism to increase the wealth of those in third world nations, which would naturally decrease the number of children they have, it was decided to kill them off and keep the cash for themselves.

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  • by Unilaterally Unique on February 3rd, 2011

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    Who Knows...



    apart from the joke...noone really knows..and any theory circulating at the moment is exactly that..a theory.
    What we do know is how it's transmitted and how we can minimise risk of transmission..

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