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​The Man-Made Origin of AIDS: Are human and viral experiments responsible for unleashing the HIV Holocaust?

 By Alan Cantwell, Jr, MD| November 23rd 2003| rense.com

AIDS in America rarely makes headlines anymore. In the mind of the public the disease is still believed to be a sexually-transmitted disease mostly affecting male homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes and promiscuous people. Starting officially in June 1981 as a "gay disease" affecting only a few dozen men, there are now 800,000 reported U.S. AIDS cases and 460,000 deaths, mostly young men. The prediction of a "major threat" to the "general" heterosexual population never happened.  

Every December 1 is the World AIDS Day. This year (2003) there are 36 million people worldwide estimated to be living with AIDS/HIV. Twenty-two million people have died of the disease.   

This year, AIDS will get more attention than usual. On November 16, 2003, CBS TV was supposed to have transmitted "The Reagans" – a portrait of President Ronald Reagan who presided over the first years of the AIDS epidemic. The program was cancelled due to protests, particularly over a speech where Reagan says, "They that live in sin have to die in sin." There is no historical evidence that the president ever said such a line; and Reagan admirers fumed over the attempt by CBS to "rewrite history." However, it is a fact that the political infighting between the various federal health agencies, and the shameful refusal of the Reagan administration to fund AIDS research and education, all combined to provide a serious movement against the government's dealing with AIDS in the early years of the American epidemic. Most disconcerting is the fact that Reagan never once uttered the word "AIDS" in public until March 1987, when 16,000 Americans (mostly gay men) had already died of AIDS.  

The media and the AIDS scientists have never told the real history of AIDS and its origin to the world public. We are repeatedly told that HIV came from Africa. But how is that sexually and biologically possible? How could a supposedly black African heterosexual disease- that some scientists claim has been around for decades or centuries in Africa- suddenly transform itself into an exclusively white male homosexual disease in America, and at a time when AIDS was unknown in Africa?

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic there have been persistent rumors that the disease was man-made, and that HIV was "introduced" into the American gay and the African black populations as a germ warfare experiment. This conspiracy theory was quickly denied by virologists and molecular biolologists, who blamed primates in the African bush and human sexuality for the introduction and spread of HIV.

In the fall of 1986 the Soviets shocked the world by claiming that HIV was secretly developed at Fort Detrick, the U.S. Army's biological unit. Although the claim was dismissed as "infectious propaganda", Russian scientists had worked hand in hand with biological warfare scientists in the transfer of viruses into primates (monkeys, chimps) during the 1970s before AIDS appeared. With improved international relationships, the Russian accusation disappeared.

Although evidence supporting the man-made theory has never been mentioned in the major U.S. media, the theory continues to be made fun of. For example, in the San Francisco Chronicle, ("Quest for the Origin of AIDS", January 14, 2001), William Carlsen writes: "In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, theories attempting to explain the origin of the disease ranged from the comic to the bizarre: a deadly germ escaped from a secret CIA laboratory; God sent the plague down to punish homosexuals and drug addicts; it came from outer space, riding on the tail of a comet."  

AIDS certainly did not come from the hand of God or outer space. However, there is ample evidence to suspect the hand of man in the outbreak of AIDS.