AIDS Conspiracy Theory

This website I used was http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AIDS_conspiracy

Essentially what this article claims is that AIDS is not a natural epidemic, but it is really man-made government created disease meant to eliminate a certain unwanted portion of the population. In particular, this theory claims AIDS was create to exterminate blacks and gays in an act of genocide. This article describes many different AIDS conspiracy theories, but they all have the use the same premise that AIDS was created by the government. Also the article suggests that a cure for AIDS has already been found but the United States government is with holding it. There is no evidence to support this claim, however this seems irrelevant to the person making the claim. It does not seem that the people concocting these conspiracies are very credible sources. While two of the leading conspirists have their doctoral degree, it does not say what their degree is in.

A few of these men argue that "HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by US Government scientists." It seems as though perhaps the men formulating this conspiracy have read to many science fiction books. They claim HIV was introduced into the gay population between 1978 and 1981 through government experiments. Basically, they make rediculous claims without providing any support or evidence. However, since it is a top secret "government experiment" they do not have any concrete evidence. this seems to be a common fall back strategy for any conspiracy. Since its a top secret government ordeal, they can't provide any evidence. It's very fishy that the conspiracy happens to suggest the dates that the government started experimenting happen to be when the actual epidemic began. It's not hard to create a conspiracy theory. All one has to do is find some dates and random events, and then link them through rediculous occurances.