Racist conspiracy theories
Obama’s pastor is hardly the only person voicing such conspiracy theories. Among other prominent promoters:
* In 1991, Bill Cosby told The New York Post that AIDS “was started by human beings to get after certain people they don’t like.”
* Spike Lee told Rolling Stone in 1992, “I’m convinced AIDS is a government-engineered disease... [But] they never realized it couldn’t just be contained to the groups it was intended to wipe out.”
* In a 1998 interview in Rolling Stone, Will Smith said that he “felt that AIDS was created as a result of biological warfare testing. ... Someone was messing around in a laboratory, trying to find biological weapons, and created AIDS.”
Pathetic! Especially Will Smith. He “feels” that AIDS was created as a result of biological warfare testing.
Science isn’t about his dumb feelings. It’s about evidence, and he ought to get down on his knees every night and give thanks that medicine is based on science, not feelings.
Didn’t ANYONE hear the rumor that AIDS started in Africa via the Green Monkey? I was under the impression that the US Congress frowned on mandatory AIDS-testing BECAUSE it discriminated against blacks and homosexuals.