I also had a biology teacher who was highly qualified and had some real good degrees in that sort of stuff and believed it was man made. He said something about the structure of the aids virus being too perfect to be naturally made and could only be that perfect if it was created artificially

Originally posted by The Herbaliser
I also had a biology teacher who was highly qualified and had some real good degrees in that sort of stuff and believed it was man made. He said something about the structure of the aids virus being too perfect to be naturally made and could only be that perfect if it was created artificially

I'd like to know a little more about this....with those degrees, your teacher was probably published somewhere. Anywhere I can check it out?

I think it's a bit of a stretch (what he's theorising), but I'd be keen to learn more about it.

The theory is pretty consistant
patient zero ate a monkey... (very common)
but....
they have been eating monkeys for millenia, and still do, and it doesn't seem to affect the spread of aids up or down... (see "bushmeat")

HIV/AIDS would make a decent bioweapon. It could never be traced to an "attack"
and it is also suspicious that it affects european decendants of the survivors of the black death, much less than other races...

this makes sense medically, but could also be what the possible creators were looking for in this virus. some selectablility...

able to largely preserve european ancestry, while openly killing off the rest of the world...

IF it was really perfect though, it would kill much faster (month to a year)... and in so doing, be more controllable.

For the "powers that be" (from whatever country) to consider such a program for depopulation, they would have to have a vaccine for themselves.

if they did, it makes the creation theory possible, if not, then I doubt anyone would take the chance of it mutating...

much will come about from the pursuit of a cure...

Is it possible, hell yes, and history says it is probable...

but is it fact? nope, until documents surface, that some whistleblower is keeping safe... we have to admit, that it is not/and cannot be proven...

Whistleblowers:
would a well meaning whistleblower even bother, at this point?
the fact is the virus is wild, and has mutated...
if someone is to blame for releasing it, then so what? what are you going to do? you can only kill the bastard/bastardess once...

Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
they have been eating monkeys for millenia, and still do, and it doesn't seem to affect the spread of aids up or down... (see "bushmeat")

Because (assuming the SIV/HIV jump is correct) not every species carried the virus, and more to the point, not every species was used as food. Virii do mutate over time - this is why the flu virus is such a pest. The darn thing just keeps mutating.

HIV/AIDS would make a decent bioweapon. It could never be traced to an "attack"
and it is also suspicious that it affects european decendants of the survivors of the black death, much less than other races...

Perhaps...but it's not unknown for certain diseases to offer immunity against others. We're just not sure why. I'm not too suspicious of this aspect.

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able to largely preserve european ancestry, while openly killing off the rest of the world...

Except we humans breed across racial lines all the time...so that wouldn't be the best tool to use if that was the desire..

IF it was really perfect though, it would kill much faster (month to a year)... and in so doing, be more controllable.

On the contrary. A virus that can be spread over an indefinite period is much more "valuable", surely? If it kills within a month, that's a very limited time span for it to spread. If it takes years...the opportunity to infect more people is far greater.

Some very interesting points!