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A new study was released by Oregon State and the RAND corporation detailing the beliefs of blacks about AIDS. Here's what they found:
* 53 percent agreed that “there is a cure for AIDS, but it is being withheld from the poor.”
* Nearly 27 percent agreed that “AIDS was produced in a government laboratory.”
* About 16 percent agreed that AIDS was created by the government to control the black population.
* About 15 percent agreed that AIDS is a form of genocide against African Americans.
Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

edit- Source (http://www.rand.org/news/press.05/01.25.html)

Pfft, check out the Californian study

100% believe that "AIDS just...happens"

A new study was released by Oregon State and the RAND corporation detailing the beliefs of blacks about AIDS. Here's what they found:

Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

Paranoid, yes. Ridiculous, perhaps.

Well being created for a purpose to attack a group of people is rediculus.

However, I could belive that the pharmies would rather have something that keeps you alive vs. curing you. Nice trapped customer base......

I can't help but think of one episode of King of the Hill where Hank finds a tatoo on the back of his head.
Dale: "Is it a barcode? Because that would point to the RAND corporation."

People keep harping on race...when will they learn, MONEY talks louder than color.

Exclude wealthy blacks from the study, and include poor whites, and I think you'll find the statistics even more paranoid.

it might be time to do a bit more aids education. the totals for withholding a cure and being made in a lab are too high. the others are common paranoia/conspiracy theory crap

Hey man, you've got it all wrong.

Don'cha know that AIDS is an eeevil plague that is caused by homosexuality, but they're using it as a weapon against us through our blood supply?
;)

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0273/0273_01.asp

Jack Chick will teach you the REAL truth!


and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you...

Hey man, you've got it all wrong.

Don'cha know that AIDS is an eeevil plague that is caused by homosexuality, but they're using it as a weapon against us through our blood supply?
;)

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0273/0273_01.asp

Jack Chick will teach you the REAL truth!


and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you...

Offer some oceanfront property in Arizona! :D

People keep harping on race...when will they learn, MONEY talks louder than color.

Exclude wealthy blacks from the study, and include poor whites, and I think you'll find the statistics even more paranoid.
good point!

This is paranoia. Sadly, the only conspiracy here is in the leaders who are selling this crap to blacks everywhere. In Africa, where some nations have a 40% infection rate, the national newspapers are publishing this stuff. It's almost worse to see people here believing this garbage.

Basically it points to a certain part of the U.S. culture that wants to blame whites for absolutely everything. Sad fact is, the future of AIDS in African Americans (the largest population of newly reported infection) is in the hands of young African-American kids.

When I was in college we all carried AIDS tests with us in our wallets. Do college students still do this? If you didn't have a negative test, no hook ups for you. :confused:

When I was in college we all carried AIDS tests with us in our wallets. Do college students still do this? If you didn't have a negative test, no hook ups for you. :confused:
Uh no :confused:
Usually people just have condoms.
Where did you go to college?

Uh no :confused:
Usually people just have condoms.
Where did you go to college?

In the early days you got tested because they were not sure how it spread(ie saliva).

In the early days you got tested because they were not sure how it spread(ie saliva).
Nono, Jack Chick has it right! It spreads because gays are angry and figured they'd spread their AIDS plague through donating blood!

;)

Uh no
Usually people just have condoms.
Where did you go to college?

This was late 1989 and we wore condoms too. But, frankly, there are still too many risks even with condoms. Some condoms, especially lambskin, were pourous enough to let the virus through. Also, there is always fluid exchange in sex. Secretions get all over you, you know? So we tested to be sure.

Really scary STD: genital warts. Those suckers go through condoms, even.

\\double post. Sorry.

A new study was released by Oregon State and the RAND corporation detailing the beliefs of blacks about AIDS. Here's what they found:

Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

edit- Source (http://www.rand.org/news/press.05/01.25.html)

No, this is tragic. There is clearly a need for more money in the ghettos. Affirmative action would have dispelled all these myths. Mo' Government, please! Where is Jesse Jackson?

Seriously, though. What would you expect after the way blacks were treated in Tuskeegee? Would you trust the government any time soon?

C'mon, guys, ain't you listening to the gospel of Chick?
Gays are evil! They caused AIDS and they're all evil an' stuff!
And they have little demons on their shoulders!
Look!

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp

Because remember, liberals and gays, and all non-believers in fact, are part fo a big conspiracy to make the worldlike this (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0094/0094_01.asp).

Isn't it scary?

Oh yeah, and gays will be tortured eternally for something they don't even have a choice about!

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0084/0084_01.asp

And remember, AIDS is all evil an' stuff, and it's certainly not abstinence-only education that causes the lack of knowledge, it's really people lying an' saying that condoms always work!

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0090/0090_01.asp

Remember, God is good- but only if you convert to the gospel of Chick!

;)

Has anyone read Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" by any chance? The idea of a disease as serious as that with a cure that is being withheld sounds like it is straight from that novel. In fact a disease being created by scientists with a withheld sure was the reason for the demise of the human pop. in that novel. :confused: