The conspiracy theory is nothing like the hunter theory. The conspiracy theory thinks that the US government made the virus as a biochemical weapon to kill African American and homosexuals. This different from the hunter theory in that it doesn't even take into account SIV even though HIV and SIV are genetically very similar hinting that they have a common ancestor in the near past.
The hunter theory seems the most plausible to me. It seems the most likely and it has genetics to back it up.
The only reason I think it is important to see how HIV got transferred to humans are medical. It might help to find treatments and drugs to combat the virus if everything is learned about the virus. As for to address the disease today I really don't see much importance to it. However it happen it did and we must look at a solution to the problem.
You make a good point about why we should/shouldn't be interested in how HIV came into being. If we can use the history of the virus to figure out a cure, then that would be great. But if the only reason is to place blame on someone, that's not going to do any good.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on your blog. I believe medically there is alot to learn from the ancestery of HIV but as far as labelling or to place blame i think it would set back the development of a cure and make this even more politically sensative than it already is.
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