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What a wealth of information. One thing I remember about AIDS was a report that came out after the fall of Russia/communism. The KGB report stated that HIV was a bacterial warfare invention created in the United States. It was just a blip but it caught my attention. Right after the fall things like this popped up

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"HIV is a US military lab-created virus" was a narrative which was frequently put forth in the '80s, supposedly aimed at getting rid of gays en masse. Interesting that the KGB was trying to portray HIV, put forth as a virus, as being a bacterium, amazing given that a bacterium would have been visible on a light microscope. Like it's been said, "The bigger lie the better."

Need to mention, for the benefit of readers. Bacteria are real, seen frequently, but never ever have been demonstrated to be pathogens, as admitted even by Robert Koch, the "father of bacteriology."

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I have heard this about bacteria as well.

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The Baileys, the What Makes Us Ill? team (Dawn Lester and David Parker) and others.

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