The Origin of AIDS and HIV May Not Be What You Have Learned
This website thinks it was caused by the Hepatitis B vaccine trials in the mid 70s. The vaccine was given to gay men in NYC/SanFran/LA and men in Africa. Those demographics were at risk for Hepatitis B, so it made sense to give them the vaccine. ***Puts on conspiracy hat... I know that the government and drug company would not want to info to not be found out if it were true. Imagine the lawsuits, the lack of faith in vaccines, the knowledge that some company introduced a scary virus and put the public at risk) And I wouldn't be surprised with who was in the White House when AIDS was discovered***
That sounds more credible than an ineffective bio-weapon or the rapid escalation in cases that wouldn't occur from a cut hunter or money-banging one-off transmission (You would have seen HIV/AIDS for decades in order to get to the numbers in the 80s). The military probably would have wanted to study air-borne viri with week long gestation, but communicative, periods and 100% mortality in a month.
http://www.whale.to/b/rappoport.html
If you read the bottom of the page from the last bolded title down, it goes into another conspiracy theory. That the doctors in the 70s knew the Hepatitis B vaccine would cause problems with the immune system. Then there was a big campaign for gay men to get tested. The tests would give false positives for people who received the vaccine. Then they went on drugs that would kill off bone marrow and the immune system, which would cause AIDS, and make lots of money for the drug companies and doctors...
Interesting conspiracy theory for a Friday night. And exactly the type of real investigative reporting our media should be doing. I don't know what happened, but it proves you never know who to trust.