Irrefutable Evidence that AIDS is Man Made

Twenty four years ago in 1987, I gave a lecture in Washington DC that seemed-then- to be incredible. Entitled, AIDS and Black Folks, it was an attempt to wake the Black community up to the fact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was sweeping the country and the world, especially Africa. It told the story of how a sexually transmitted disease spreads through an unsuspecting population as demonstrated previously by the US Public Health Service in the now infamous Tuskegee experiments that deliberately infected Black men over a 40 year span of time with syphillis and then refused them treatment with penicillin. The same people who brought us death through Tuskegee are now bringing lus death through AIDS- a thoroughly man made disease. Later came the book by Leonard Horowitz that gave the sordid criminal details of how the foul genocidal deed was done and is being done. So below is the same story again, updated and renewed for those who don't know the history. 
Gay Vaccine Experiments And The American (Not African) Origin Of AIDS  
By Alan Cantwell, MD
Copyright 2001 - All Rights Reserved
9-1-11

 

 

Ever since the AIDS epidemic became official in June 1981, there have been rumors that AIDS is a man-made disease. Although this theory has been  discredited   by "scientific consensus," there is evidence linking the outbreak of this new disease to a vaccine experiment conducted on gay men in New York City, as  well as in other U.S. cities, between 1978 and 1981. The first epidemic cases of AIDS in America were uncovered exclusively in young, previously healthy, and mostly white gay men in Manhattan in 1979. The cause was   unknown until 1984  when a virus, later named HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), was accepted as the infectious agent. How a  sexually transmitted disease (STD),   purportedly originating in Africa, was transferred into a so-called "gay disease" in New York City was left unexplained, except for preposterous stories like the gay Canadian airline steward Gaetan Dugas, who was demonized in the media and tabloids as "the man who brought AIDS to America." THE GAY  VACCINE EXPERIMENTS  BEFORE  AIDS (1978-1981) Beginning in 1974, workers in a   bloodmobile provided by the New York Blood Center in Manhattan began soliciting 8, 906 gay men for a hepatitis B vaccine research study (Koblin et al, 1992). Over the next few years more that 10,000 blood samples were donated by gays willing to participate in the development of a vaccine that might prevent hepatitis B. This viral disease was an  STD disproportionately affecting sexually-active homosexuals. The AIDS epidemic in the U.S. directly traces back to this government-sponsored vaccine experiment! Eventually, 1,083 gay men were recruited to be injected with an experimental hepatitis B vaccine at the New York Blood Center. In the months before the actual experiment began, the vaccine underwent preliminary testing for safety and immune response on two hundred physicians at New York Medical Center, as well as on twenty-eight employees of Merck & Co, which made the vaccine. The first group of   men in the actual trial were inoculated in November 1978. The experiment was confidential. Each man was given an anonymous identification number, which would be the only way they could be identified by the investigators. Each man got an initial dose of vaccine, then  a  repeat one month  after, and a final inoculation six months later. All  were asked to donate blood samples for two years after the three injections. Over a period of months, all  1,083 men would be injected. Half the men were given the experimental vaccine; the  other half would serve as the control group and were given useless placebo injections. In this double-blind study, neither the men nor the investigators knew who was getting the vaccine or the placebo. This experiment ended in September 1980. The success rate in preventing hepatitis B in the group receiving the vaccine was 92.3%. Additional experimental hep B vaccine trials, all using gay men as the guinea pig, were conducted in 1979 and 1980 in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and St. Louis. In May 1981, the men in the placebo group (who did not receive the vaccine) at the  Blood Center were offered a chance to take the vaccine. As a result, 270 men were inoculated with the series of three shots and were asked to donate additional blood samples for two more years.  Because men in the vaccine-recipient  group and the placebo group were now both inoculated with the vaccine, it would no longer be possible to compare the two groups in terms of future HIV rates. Because the experiment was confidential and anonymous, the fate of the individual men in terms of acquiring HIV/AIDS in the  future, could never be ascertained. In   June 1981, after 41 cases of a new disease in  homosexuals were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC),  the AIDS epidemic became official. THE "GAY PLAGUE" BEGINS IN  MANHATTAN  IN 1979 The first few cases of a new disease characterized by immunodeficiency, cancer and a previously rare form of pneumonia in young  gay men, were uncovered in Manhattan in 1979. By the end of 1981 there were 160 cumulative cases from New York City; a decade later,  9,000 cases had been reported in NYC. The early cases were termed "gay related immune deficiency disease," or GRID, for short. Privately, it was called "the gay plague," with homosexuals dying from "gay cancer" in the form of Kaposi's sarcoma, and/or a rapidly fatal "gay pneumonia" caused by a yeast-like fungus. By the end of 1979, 6.6% of 378 men who had been "hepatitis B trial participants" or who had donated blood in the experiment at the Center were already HIV- positive. By 1981, it was 20%! (This was at a time when the African AIDS epidemic was unknown.) By 1984 over 40% of the trial participants were  HIV-positive (Stevens et al, 1986). These infection rates were determined in 1985 when  the stored  gay blood samples were retested for HIV. A different  (non-vaccine) hepatitis B study, conducted from 1978  to  1980 at the San Francisco City Clinic, recruited a cohort of 6,705 homosexuals. By 1982, 41% of all reported AIDS cases in S.F. were from this cohort. By 1989, 75% of  the cohort was infected with HIV-and 1,479 had developed AIDS (Rutherford et al, 1990). Activist Tom Keske has posted an essay on his website entitled: "Was AIDS in the U.S. started intentionally?" He also provides an  incriminating  statistical analysis linking the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco to hepatitis B vaccine experiments conducted in that city. In 1984, the CDC was apparently oblivious to the extremely high rate of HIV/AIDS infection in gay men who participated in  the hepatitis experiments and studies, particularly at a time when the African AIDS epidemic was still largely unknown.  In  its  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, dated Dec 14, 1984, the agency simply concluded the  hepatitis B vaccine was safe-and that  "epidemiologic monitoring of AIDS cases and high-risk groups confirms the lack of AIDS transmission." When later studies revealed the high incidence of HIV in these men, as noted above, there was no official comment by the CDC. To my knowledge, the CDC  never  tested  the vaccine given to the men at the NY Blood center; and this CDC 1984 report is often cited to refute any connection between gay experiments and the AIDS outbreak. New York City quickly became the epicenter for   the American epidemic, and has remained so to this day, with more that 100,000 New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. SIMIAN VIRUSES AND  GAY VACCINE EXPERIMENTS According to Luc Montagnier in his book "Virus" (1999), the  African AIDS epidemic did not begin until the Autumn of 1982 at the earliest. There is also no epidemiologic or sexual connection between gay cases and African AIDS cases. Was HIV introduced into gay men via a contaminated vaccine?  HIV is not the first simian (i.e.,  monkey or chimp) virus to infect mankind. Simian virus-40 (SV40) is a cancer-causing green monkey virus that contaminated the polio vaccine, and was injected into millions of people worldwide beginning in the 1950s. SV40 was also used extensively in animals to induce cancer tumors conducted as part of the largely forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program (1964-1980). For details of this Program, see my Internet article entitled 'Blaming gays, blacks, and chimps for AIDS.' There are strong connections between simian viruses and the experimental hep B vaccine, the gay participants, and the outbreak of AIDS. The vaccine given to gays was designed by Maurice Hilleman of Merck; and was "developed" by repeatedly injecting it into chimpanzees, as part of the safety testing of the vaccine. Could a chimp HIV-like virus have been transferred to the vaccine during the 65-week manufacturing process? Humans and chimps have 99% of their active genetic material in common. As a result, chimps are used extensively in medical research. In 1974 veterinarians produced  an AIDS-like disease in chimps by taking newborn chimps away from their mothers and feeding them virus-infected cow's milk. As a result  of  this  interspecies transfer of virus, the chimps died of immunodeficiency, leukemia, and pneumocystis pneumonia, later  known as the "gay pneumonia" of AIDS (McClure et al, 1974). Previously, leukemia had never been observed in chimps. Also in 1974 the New York Blood Center established Vilab II, a little-publicized  chimp research lab in Robertsville, Liberia, West Africa. It contained captive chimps, all of which were purposely infected with hepatitis. In 1978 Vilab began to release some chimps back into the wild and onto several islands.  The Blood Center announced the closure of the lab in 2006 and the end to chimp research. Alfred Prince,  a  hepatitis researcher and virologist at the Blood Center,  was also the Director of  Vilab  from 1975 to 2000. Maurice Hilleman was well aware of simian viruses contaminating vaccines, having personally discovered SV40 in 1960 in polio vaccines. In a <http://youtube.com/>youtube.com video entitled "Merck chief brings HIV/AIDS to America, " posted by prolific AIDS origin researcher Leonard G Horowitz,  Hilleman is recorded telling his colleagues, "I brought African greens [monkeys] in. I didn't know we were importing AIDS virus at the time [i.e., between 1970-1974]. His colleagues are heard laughing. Someone says, "It was you who introduced AIDS virus in." This shocking interview, conducted by Edward Shorter for WGBH public television, was cut from the TV documentary, based on Shorter's book "The Health Century" (1987), due to liability issues, undoubtedly reflecting poorly on Merck where the vaccine for gays was developed.  Hilleman's assertion gives credence to the "conspiratorial" view  that  the most likely source of an AIDS-causing simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)  virus was from a laboratory, and not from the wilds of Africa. The close timeline  between  the  hepatitis B vaccine trials, as well as the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in the participants,  and the outbreak of the "gay plague" can hardly be denied. There are few sources, outside of medical journal reports, that reveal details of the experiment. The best source is June Goodfield's "Quest for the Killers" (1985), in a chapter entitled 'Vaccine on trial.' She emphasizes the dangerous aspects of the vaccine experiment, due to the pooling of the blood, as well as the concern regarding possible contamination of the vaccine. Hers is the only source   revealing   that some of the vaccine was made by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "Was something wrong with the vaccine, possibly contamination? This was no theoretical fear, contamination having been suspected in one vaccine batch made by the National Institutes of Health, though never in Merck's." THE SIMIAN VIRUS ORIGIN OF HIV Determining the simian ancestry of HIV is not the same as determining the origin of the AIDS epidemic in America. HIV is emphatically a "new virus" in humans, although its origin in simians may be ancient. The American AIDS epidemic clearly began in the late 1970s. The  purported African  origin of American AIDS is largely based on the genealogy of the AIDS virus in Africa. I could never understand why scientists never looked for a simian ancestor of HIV in the various primate virus labs and primate colonies in the U.S. The simian "roots" of HIV depend on who is doing the genetic analysis. Some researchers claim that HIV has been circulating in humans since the 1930s, others date it back a century or more.  A   new "phylo-geographic" study suggests monkey SIVs are ancient and date back 32,000 to 75,000 years (Worobey et al, 2010). The public  was  first  told  that HIV originated in Africa in green monkeys. This changed in 1999 when a SIV  found  in  chimpanzees was  widely accepted as the closest ancestor virus of HIV (Gao et al, 1999). Four years later, geneticists reversed themselves again, claiming  HIV "didn't start its life in chimps" but arose through hybridization of two monkey strains of SIV that recombined in the chimpanzee host (Bailes et al, 2003). In other words, the ancestors of HIV were a mix of monkey immunodeficiency viruses transferred into chimps, which subsequently recombined to form a new hybrid virus with mixed genetic material.  By the way, chimps are considered apes, have bigger bodies than monkeys, and   are most closely related to humans. Monkeys have tails and are structurally closer to four-legged animals like cats and dogs. Lost in all this conflicting genetic mumbo-jumbo, that few people can comprehend (including myself),   was the fact that  extensive mixing of simian viruses and the creation of hybrid viruses was going on for years in labs  around the world in the years immediately preceding AIDS. This, in fact, is the basis of the AIDS "conspiracy theory,"  which  proposes  that  the ancestor of HIV most likely originated in animal species transfer experiments in a virus laboratory. Yet  this explanation is never considered by scientists. These genetic studies  of  HIV origin, widely  reported in the major media, continue to reinforce  the public perception that HIV/AIDS started in Africa. There is no attempt made here to fully explain the origin of the horrible outbreak of AIDS in Africa beginning around 1983. This will up to future medical historians to unravel. Suffice it to say that sub-Saharan  Africa has been the testing ground for pharmaceuticals and vaccines for many decades, and for massive vaccine programs with reuse of needles which could also spread HIV from person to person. In "AIDS and the Doctors of Death" (1988), I mentioned a London Times explosive front page article connecting AIDS to extensive vaccine programs in Africa,  and entitled "Smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus" (May 11, 1987). Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, was quoted as saying, "The link between the WHO program and the epidemic is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that  the  use  of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV." The full  Times  story never appeared in the major media in the U.S., but is available online. Researchers have known for a long time that the particular strain of HIV that infected American  gays  is "subtype B."  The prevalent strains in Africa are different, again suggesting that American AIDS cases did not come from Africa cases. Unlike some strains in Africa, which date back to the 1930s, a recent study by Perez-Losada at al (2010), indicates "subtype B" is quite new, dating back to around 1968, a decade before the hep B experiment. Max Essex claims the American B strain has an affinity for anal tissue and  is  more  easily transmitted by homosexual contact and intravenous drug use, whereas the HIV subtypes in Africa tend to fuel heterosexual epidemics via a vaginal mucosal route. THE LAB ORIGIN OF HIV IN AMERICA Hilleman's  hepatitis  B vaccine was intentionally made from the pooled blood of 300 highly sexually-active  gay and intravenous drug abusers in Manhattan. These men were the carriers of  the  hepatitis virus Hilleman required to manufacture his vaccine. As mentioned, the vaccine was developed in chimps, and took 65 weeks to make. His vaccine brew was collected in 1977. The specific year is important because there are no reports of AIDS  cases  at that time; and no stored American blood  testing positive for HIV before that year. In  "Vaccinated" (2007) Paul Offit, a pediatrician  and  vaccine developer who works for Merck, theorizes that although "HIV was likely present in the blood from which he made early preparations of his vaccine, Hilleman's choice of pepsin, urea, and formaldehyde had completely destroyed it." In "Vaccinated," Offit is critical of my AIDS origin research. He writes,  "The publisher of Alan Cantwell's book, Aries Rising Press, was founded by Cantwell himself to promote his uninformed views on the origin of the AIDS epidemic." Offit claims  the American blood supply was "heavily contaminated" with HIV in the mid-1970s. He offers no documentation for this statement, nor are there any studies (or epidemic AIDS cases) which document this. The earliest HIV-positive blood specimens in the  American  epidemic  were uncovered in 1978-they are those deposited into the Blood Center by gay participants of the hep B experiment. There is no record of any other stored blood in the U.S testing positive for HIV, with one exception. According to "Virus Hunters of the CDC" (1996), author Joseph McCormick states six hundred blood specimens from Zaire, Africa, were sent  to the CDC  in 1976 during the Ebola virus outbreak. When re-tested in the mid-1980s for HIV, five of the specimens were positive. One has to wonder if other labs in the U.S were also harboring HIV-infected African blood used in animal (or human) research. Unlike Offit, I have never promoted the idea that HIV was contained  in Hilleman's  blood brew in 1977. Yet Offit insists HIV first entered the U.S. a few years before Hilleman began working on his vaccine. He notes Hilleman would be "the first (and last) to use human blood to make a vaccine. He didn't know until years later that  the  blood  was heavily contaminated with HIV." Offit makes no mention of  Hilleman  importing HIV/AIDS via his monkeys and chimps, nor does he cite the 20% HIV infection rate of the men who participated in the trial at the Blood Center in 1981. He simply assures us the vaccine given to gay men was safe and free of HIV. UNETHICAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION The  development of a hepatitis B vaccine has a dark history. Less than a decade before the gay experiment, sixty mentally retarded children at Willowbrook State School, on Staten Island, NY,  were fed live hepatitis B virus. In another experiment, the serum from a patient with hepatitis B was injected   intravenously   into 25 retarded children with dire results. They sickened, some severely, and turned yellow with jaundice. According to Hilleman, "They were the most unethical medical experiments ever performed in children in the Unites States." It is indeed shameful to read the history of covert human experimentation over the past decades, which likely continues up to the present. Most appalling were "the human radiation experiments" of the Cold War era affecting millions of unsuspecting Americans, and extending into the mid-1970s. For all the morbid details, google: human medical experimentation. I will mention only one recent revelation (2010)  uncovered by Susan Reverby, quite by accident,  while researching the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis  study. According to the Wikipedia entry, "In a 1946 to 1948  study in Guatemala, U.S. researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates, insane asylum patients, and Guatemalan soldiers with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating sexually transmitted diseases. They later tried infecting people with "direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men's penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded . . . or in a few cases through spinal punctures. The study was sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau (now the World Health Organization's Pan American Health Organization) and the Guatemalan government. Further details of the experiment that recruited 5,500 people and infected 1,300 people (including orphaned children) with sexually transmitted diseases were released on August 30, 2011. In one instance, a dying woman was deliberately infected with gonorrhea bacteria in her eyes and elsewhere. Seven women with epilepsy were injected with syphilis germs into the back of the spine, resulting in bacterial meningitis in all cases. Eighty-three people died. The U.S. Public Health Service is the former name of the CDC. The fact  that  this government study was initiated by both the CDC and the NIH, the two leading and most prestigious health organizations in America, is chilling. When asked about the Guatemala experiment, Harold Jaffe  of the CDC was quoted as saying: "Are there other stories that haven't come to light? We don't want to feed on the paranoia in the media, for example, of biological warfare, or AIDS as a cooked-up infection in a foreign country, but stories like this have to remind people of these stories" ('Presidential panel slams 1940s Guatemalan STD study,'  by Louisa Kasdon, posted on the BU.edu website, Aug 31, 2011). Jaffe has been the top officer at the CDC covering AIDS since the very beginning. However, this is the first time I ever heard a CDC official blaming AIDS on a "cooked-up infection in a foreign country." SIMIAN VIRUSES AND VACCINES Vaccines are big business with worldwide sales of 25 billion; and AIDS has spawned a huge industry as well. A CBS news report (Jan 8, 2010) declared: "Got AIDS? Lifetime cost: $618,900." I am not anti-vaccine, although I would like to know exactly how a vaccine is produced-from start to finish-before it is injected into me. And such knowledge is impossible to obtain, due to proprietary concerns of the manufacturers. Ordinarily, I decline vaccines unless absolutely necessary. I stopped taking yearly flu shots in 1991 when I read in The New York Times that some people were testing HIV-positive after injection with the "Beijing flu" shot that year. This was deemed to be a false-positive reaction, but the CDC was not sure what was causing the peculiar result. Childhood vaccinations are necessary, of course,  to prevent certain diseases. And more and more pediatricians are refusing to treat children whose parents refuse to vaccinate them according to the prescribed schedule, which includes 11 vaccines, and as many as  20  shots by 2 years of age (Offit et al, 2002). For some of my personal negative views on vaccines, see 'Vexing over vaccines' on the net. For anyone who thinks that vaccine makers are always your friend, I  would recommend "The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed" by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher (2004). They explore the history of the polio vaccine, the contamination problems with SV40 , the ensuing vaccine-related cancer problems, and the government's cover-up of the problem over the past three decades. I discovered that federal regulations require only that vaccine manufacturers screen for viruses by observing the effects of viruses on tissue cell cultures, as viewed with an ordinary light microscope. This was surprising to me because viruses are too small to be seen microscopically. Thus, vaccines are not directly tested for virus contamination, but are tested indirectly with a light microscope. Apparently virus contamination of vaccine lots is suspected only if cells (viewed in the light microscope) undergo evidence of viral infection. If a contaminating virus in a vaccine has no effect on cells, this testing procedure would obviously be ineffective. When the gay experiments ended in 1981, HIV was already in the nation's blood supply. And there was no way to test for it. Within a year, the disease was no longer confined to male homosexuals. It was clearly an STD that could also be transmitted by body fluids and by blood transfusion.  In 1982  the  first  AIDS cases in blood transfusion recipients and hemophiliacs were recorded. So why were gay men the only sexually-active Americans originally infected with HIV? In my view, the most likely  explanation  is  the  vaccine was contaminated with an SIV that escaped detection during the long and dangerous manufacturing process, which included repeated safety test in chimpanzees. An alternate explanation is that a laboratory-derived   SIV was introduced deliberately as a genocidal agent against gay people that would eventually spread to the "general population." In other words, a covert Guatemala-type STD experiment using gays as guinea pigs. Sometimes, despite great care in the manufacturing process, a virus will slip through and wreak havoc. Such was the case with   Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California,  in 1957 with their polio vaccine that was accidentally contaminated with a live, virulent polio virus. The result was 200,000 infected people. Seventy thousand people became ill; 200 were permanently paralyzed; and 10 died,  according  to Offit's  "The Cutter Incident" (2005). Once HIV was seeded into gays, it could easily spread sexually and through body fluids. A decade before the epidemic, in a lab accident involving green monkeys in 1967, a highly dangerous simian hemorrhagic virus  infected 31  workers  in a vaccine facility in Marburg, Germany, resulting in 7 deaths. In several instances, the virus was transferred to sexual partners. Four  cases were acquired by hospital personnel caring for victims. Infection in these instances most probably was incurred through contact with the patients' blood (Luby and Sanders, 1969). Since 1984, gay men have been excluded from donating blood. This policy includes any man who has had sex with another man since 1977. This was the year Hilleman began work on his vaccine made from pooled blood. This also is the "accepted" year when HIV first entered the nation's blood supply, although the source of this SIV has never been determined. However, the most likely source  was close by- in primates held in laboratories and primate centers.  Or in African blood samples, like those stored at the CDC. THE MAN-MADE  ORIGIN OF AIDS There is a great deal of evidence pointing to AIDS as a man-made disease on the Internet, but the theory is routinely pooh-poohed as paranoia and conspiracy theory. See the Wikipedia   page entitled 'Discredited AIDS origin theories.' However, it is  fact  that there was fear concerning the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine. When the commercial vaccine made by Abbott Laboratories became available to the public, it was unpopular. Many health professionals refused the vaccine because it was made from pooled  gay blood; and they were afraid the vaccine could transmit AIDS. As a result,   a  new vaccine was eventually engineered using yeast cells instead of human blood. Every African-American has heard the rumor that AIDS was engineered to  kill  off  the black race. Thirty percent of  blacks  in New York City polled by The New York Times (October 29, 1990) actually believed that AIDS might be an ethno-specific  bio-weapon designed in a laboratory to wipe them out. George W Merck, president of Merck during World War 2, was America's biological weapons industry director. According to Leonard Horowitz's,  New York University Medical Center was listed among the top biological weapons contracting labs by 1969. The NY Blood Center is affiliated with NYUMC. In 1971 a  large part  of the Army's biological warfare unit at Fort Detrick was transferred over to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) by president Richard Nixon. As a result, bio-warfare experimentation went under cover at the NCI, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As noted, Goodfield  mentions  that the NIH made part of the hep B vaccine used on gays, and contamination  was suspected. In his later years, Hilleman himself wrote extensive articles on biological warfare, convinced that vaccines could be developed to protect people against bioterrorism. In the Spring of 1986, Robert Strecker, was promoting his view of AIDS as a "bio-attack" against humanity. He briefly received negative media attention in TIME magazine ('Infectious propaganda', November 17, 1986). When I asked  how it was possible for AIDS to start as a purely gay disease, when such an  event was biologically improbable, he told me: "Because they put it there. Do you recall the hepatitis B vaccine trials in gay men?  That's where the virus was introduced." After a quarter century of study, Strecker's explanation still makes more sense to me that any other theory of AIDS origin. Ridiculous stories like "Patient Zero" and a handful of suspected  "old cases" of so-called AIDS from the 1950s  and 60s  were sensationalized by the media in an attempt to show that AIDS existed long before the actual epidemic. Indeed, very rare cases of Kaposi's sarcoma ("gay cancer") and pneumocystis pneumonia have always existed, but never in epidemic form, nor as an STD. In my view, these reports reeked of misinformation and disinformation; and they served to obfuscate the real origin connected to government experiments conducted on gay men. Despite my intense interest in this, I have discovered over the  past three decades  that  most people are not interested in AIDS and where it came from. The idea of man-made AIDS, I suspect, is simply too painful  for people  to  consider. In essence, the subject is taboo. However, it seems to me that after 25 million AIDS deaths worldwide, and over 500,000 dead Americans, that some better explanation is required than merely blaming a "species jumping" monkey virus in the African jungle-or gay sex. This was most evident in April, 2008, when the outspoken Reverend Jeremiah Wright accused the government of inventing the AIDS virus as a genocide program against people of color. As the spiritual  advisor  to Barack Obama, Wright almost derailed Obama's run for the presidency. The future  president  quickly disassociated   himself from his former pastor, and the accusation was quickly squelched by the major media without discussion.  Wright had  read  Horowitz's book on man-made AIDS, "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola" (1996). He had carefully studied the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, and he bluntly told the media. "I believe  our  government is capable of doing anything." The   rumor  that AIDS is a man-made disease will never go away. The reason is simple: It is the most logical  explanation of how and why the AIDS epidemic first erupted as the "gay plague" among the most hated minority in America. -------------- Alan Cantwell, MD, writes frequently about the origin of AIDS. He is the author of "AIDS & the Doctors of Death" and "Queer Blood";  both published by Aries Rising Press, PO Box 29532, Los Angeles, CA 90029. His books are available from Amazon.com and through <http://ariesrisingpress.com/>ariesrisingpress.com Email: <mailto:alancantwell@sbcglobal.net>alancantwell@sbcglobal.net