Black Americans Suspect HIV Plot

The Guardian ^ | January 26, 2005 | Gary Younge

[quidnunc]

New York – Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon.

The paper's authors say these views are obstructing efforts to prevent the spread of HIV among African-Americans, the racial group most likely to contract the virus.

"The findings are striking, and a wake-up call to the prevention community," Laura Bogart, a behavioural scientist who co-authored the study, told the Washington Post.

"The prevention community has not addressed conspiracy beliefs in the context of prevention. I think that a lot of people involved in prevention may not be from the community where they are trying to prevent HIV."

African-Americans are 13% of the US population but account for 50% of new HIV infections, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

African-American women constituted 73% of new female HIV cases in 2003.

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[quantim]

Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon.

Sounds like Soros left a few nice cash tips to some writers...

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm sure the Guardian is pleased with that.

[exnavychick]

Words fail me.

[Larry Lucido]

You two have to quit posting on the same thread. I can't tell you apart.

[LibertarianInExile]

My favorite part is where the FSU pysch prof says "This is not a bunch of crazy people running around saying they're out to get us."

Yeah, you can always depend on people with psychology degrees to be far more f'ed up than the rest of the populace. If they ever do a study of psychologists, I bet they find 90% have serious mental disorders themselves. What a complete waste of college funding.

I wonder if Dr. David Ammerman was quoted in the Flambeau talking about it. /sarcasm

[Nataku X]

Disgusting, but then again, every culture has its own pervasive urban legends and conspiracy theories. Such as the 50,000 Americans being sacrificed in gruesome manners every year due to witchcraft...

[1FASTGLOCK45]

This post reminds me of the people the whisper how bush was responsible/ordered for the 911 attacks.....

[SengirV]

So this tells me that 1 in 8 people are really stupid. I don't think it matters the race, nor the subject. 1 in 8 people are just plain too stupid to live.

[singfreedom]

I've always heard the reason most people become psychologists/psychiatrists is because they want to heal themselves. This article lends pretty solid support for that theory!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA

These people ought to pick up the clue phone.......

PING to the BloodHounds.....

Wallaby's excellent bit of research (with plenty of "real time" cites and science embedded within) … Is the Blood Trade Responsible for the Spread of the AIDS Epidemic?

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• BLOOD TRAIL -- Clinton
  
• BLOOD TRAIL -- Timeline

• BLOOD TRAIL - Who, What, Where …
• Latest 100 'Blood Trail' Posts on the Free Republic
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LIDDY DOLE'S RED CROSS RUNS AMOK

BLOOD TRAIL: THE BLOOD BROKERS PART 1 -- HOW BLOOD, THE 'GIFT OF LIFE,' BECAME A BILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS Source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Published: September 24, 1989 Author: Gilbert M. Gaul Posted on 07/12/1999 19:45:35 PDT by Wallaby (348)

TOP 50 MUST READ BLOOD TRAIL: THE BLOOD BROKERS PART 2 - THE LOOSE WAY THE FDA REGULATES BLOOD INDUSTRY Source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Published: September 25, 1989 Author: Gilbert M. Gaul Posted on 07/12/1999 20:45:42 PDT by Wallaby (347)

BLOOD TRAIL: THE BLOOD BROKERS PART 3 -- FEAR OF AIDS SPURS CHANGE Source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Published: TUESDAY September 26, 1989 Author: Gilbert M. Gaul Posted on 07/12/1999 21:00:40 PDT by Wallaby (346)

BLOOD TRAIL: THE BLOOD BROKERS PART 4 -- RED CROSS: FROM DISASTER RELIEF TO BLOOD Source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Published: WEDNESDAY September 27, 1989 Author: Gilbert M. Gaul Posted on 07/12/1999 21:44:11 PDT by Wallaby (345)

TOP 50 MUST READ BLOOD TRAIL: BLOOD BROKERS, PART 5, LAST IN SERIES -- AMERICA: THE OPEC OF THE GLOBAL PLASMA Source: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Published: September 28, 1989 Author: Gilbert M. Gaul Posted on 07/12/1999 22:14:30 PDT by Wallaby (344)

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Blood money: what Red Cross donors didn’t know (1976)

Red Cross Going to Refuse Money Raised by Hillary Protest Banner Auction

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

An oldie FR thread but goodie.......

BLOOD TRAIL -- Clinton

[A CA Guy]

More listen to rap also, so maybe HIV is linked to rap.

[quantim]

You two have to quit posting on the same thread. I can't tell you apart.

Thanks, although I've posted closing in on a couple hundred threads and a few thousand posts in my short tenure on FR, to confuse me with an alpha poster is a total lack of discipline. :-)

[EagleUSA]

Yes, next it will be GWB seen on a space ship, talking with Elvis, plotting a wipe out of the liberals with the aid of an alien civilization --- (no, I didn't say illegal aliens) -- that will make the front page of every supermarket tabloid....GWB conspires to take out liberals with alien help and weapons of liberal destruction (WLDs)...wow, I could have some real fun with this....

[Larry Lucido]

Of course. But, from now on, we can't have any more latin screen names starting with small q. Otherwise I might have to come back as quitam, quovadis, or queserasera.

[Soliton]

It's a great bioweapon. but first you have to put your **** in another guy's *** to spread it.

[JSteff]

"one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA"

The CIA is not very good then. The U.S. Army makes bugs that are 100% lethal and don't even take as long to kill.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

This is truly sad, but I must say: I know a lot of black people who would find this as whacked out as I do.