To be clear, although I think already my statement was understandable to most people, I am stating that the AIDS EPIDEMIC is man made, not that the virus itself is man made.
This is "widely held" in the same way that it is widely held that the US govt murdered John F Kennedy. The proof has been hidden, and so many theories about how and why exist, but in their guts most people believe this to be true.
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
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:
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.
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