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Nice to see you hear from Swampland.
To address your point: part of why some people roll their eyes at the outrage of such a thing is because, while HIV and AIDS' origin is indeed tracable, there is historical precedent for using human guinea pigs like that.
It's called the 'Tuskeegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male'.
Considering that happened under the watch of the United States Public Health Service, it's little wonder there's that level of mistrust in the government. Now is the insistence that AIDS is the same sort of thing false? Yes. But this assertion is a symptom, not the illness. It's a symptom of the mistrust from the African American community toward the government, that at least has some concrete foundations.
