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And when I say that it is widely held that AIDS is man made, I do not mean that is in some way an "artificial" or "manufactured" virus... I mean that the circumstances that lead to the AIDS epidemic were in fact testing in biological weaponary which got massively out of control. This was an animal virus which was communicated to humans as a result of US military testing.
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You're moving the goalposts, Strange. I asked you to support your contention that:
ie; Lots of people know something for a fact...
Your contention was that lots of people know for a fact that AIDS was man-made. The how/why of that "making" are irrelevant to the question at hand: "Is it 'widely known' that AIDS is man-made?"
You also create a false dichotomy here with this statement:
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I do not mean that is in some way an "artificial" or "manufactured" virus... I mean that the circumstances that lead to the AIDS epidemic were in fact testing in biological weaponary
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If the virus was not manufactured in some way, it was not man-made. If it -was- man-made, it would by definition have to be manufactured. Now, if you meant that the -context- of the beginning of the AIDS epidemic was man-made: ie that HIV may have been a naturally-occurring pathogen which was accidentally released into a non-native habitat (similar to Africanized bees in the 1950s), this passage might make some sense.
You have not answered my original question, Strange, so I'll ask again:
Please provide some source to back up your contention that
it is widely known that AIDS/HIV was man-made.