pa2183%sdcc15@ucsd.edu (John Clark) (06/10/89)
Please post the debunking evidence for the "bio-warfare gone awry" explanation. Since the US government can't readly admit that it has lost aircraft with nuclear weapons on board how can it admit the to being responsible for the AIDS epidemic. Obviously this is an unanswerable question. Maybe a public listing of all bio-warfare experiments and results would do. But could we be sure there were no others. Since the mid-sixties our government has become less believable by just the sort of cover-ups these rumors allege. Arguments such as "it was technically impossible at the time" doesn't match the estimation that work in some government labs is 10 to 15 years in advance of commercial technology. The President making a public anouncement just doesn't seem to carry the same value it did 30 years ago when "we don't fly recon missions over the USSR..." was stated by a respected administration. So let us hear the debunk arguments. Personally I don't think the origins have much to do with search for a way to control and eliminate the disease. Were the rumors true then why has'nt some obscure researcher come up with way to control the disease. Surely the group who created it would want a way to protect themselves.
mandel@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Tom Mandel) (06/12/89)
>So let us here the debunk arguments [referring to the periodic >rumor that U.S. biological warfare created the AIDS virus]. The state of the art was incapable of such an invention in the mid-1960s. In fact, it is questionable today if such an organism could be engineered. --Tom Mandel mandel@well.sf.ca.us