09-17-2010, 12:43 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
I could go on, Strange, but this "source" of yours is a joke, besides being irrelevant to the question I asked in the first place. It keeps insisting that certain things happened simply as a matter of course, without providing any evidence that they did. Put bluntly, this source states that the sky is brown because a meteorite destroyed Madagascar in 1996, but without any further elaboration or proof of any of the alleged facts. As a lawyer would say, this entire source is an exercise in assuming facts not in evidence.
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A good portion (well over half) of the sources for that article comes from the published works of Dr. Alan Cantwell, Jr. From his Wikipedia entry:
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More recently, he has written speculative articles on the origin of HIV, suggesting it may have been a released biological warfare virus and/or deliberately put into a hepatitis B vaccine used in a trial targeted at American homosexuals. His books are self-published by Aries Rising, an imprint Cantwell publishes himself beginning in 1984 to disseminate his ideas. He has also been published in New Dawn, an Australian magazine dedicated to "presenting news and information ignored or deliberately suppressed by the mainstream media", Organica, Paranoia, Steamshovel Press, and the New African.
Paul Offit has called Cantwell's ideas about the origins of HIV "uninformed" and ignored studies indicating the rates of HIV in individuals who did and did not receive the hepatitis B vaccine were identical.[1]
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