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thenewgreen · 4865 days ago · link · · parent · post: Chimp to Man to History Books: The Path of AIDS

"Patients might get up to 300 shots in a lifetime. Other diseases have spread this way; an Egyptian campaign against schistosomiasis ended in 1980 after giving more than half its “beneficiaries” hepatitis C." -This is the kind of thing that creates the conspiracy theories that the government is intentionally inoculating the population with disease through vaccination. I don't think it's intentional, but you can see where the fear comes from.

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b_b · 4865 days ago · link ·

I didn't think about that, but its a good point. In reality, you can't intentionally spread a disease that you aren't aware exists; but, of course, reality is usually secondary to conspiracy theorists.

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thenewgreen · 4865 days ago · link ·

reality is usually secondary to conspiracy theorists.-That's usually the case, but every now and then the conspiracy theorists are the ones most firmly set in reality. Nixon's presidency comes to mind.

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b_b · 4865 days ago · link ·

What!?!?! Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nixon was the one being persecuted; didn't you ever read his memoir, "The Real War"? (Sarcasm, btw, just in case you can't tell!)