Reply #18: Not saying there aren't those in government evil enough to do this,

[atommom]

but it doesn't seem plausible to me. AIDS emerged long before we had the technology to tinker with retroviruses. And if it were an engineered virus, I'm not sure its makers would have wanted such a long latency period. (Though if I put on my tinfoil hat, I could say that gave them a few years to cover their tracks... but no, I still don't really believe it.)

Where our government really IS at fault is our lack of response to the AIDS epidemic, both here and abroad. Our lack of action and assistance is really unconscionable.

What I find interesting is that people are so willing to believe there's an evil conspiracy surrounding the AIDS virus, but so unwilling to see all the evil RW conspiracies right under their noses.