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AIDs Conspiracy Theory
1. What type (Intra/Inter/Community) of theory is it? Why is it that type of theory?
The AIDs conspiracy theory is a community theory because many people who believe in
this theory think that the CIA created this virus to purposely infect and kill a community. Boyd
E. Graves believes that the government modified a sheep virus to produce the AIDs virus. They
seemingly put this virus into hepatitis B vaccines that were only “given to gay men and blacks in
New York and San Francisco” (Lapidos, 2008).
2. What was/is the concept & constructs of the theory?
There are many different sub-theories of the AIDs conspiracy theory, but the basic
premise is that the government created the virus. According to the theorists, there was not
enough proof that HIV just came to be. The hepatitis B vaccine was produced in chimpanzees
and it was given in “New York City, among gay men, and Central African villagers between
1972 and 1974” (Zacky, 2002) and that is exactly when the epidemic started.
3. What are the variables of the theory?
The dependent variables of the theory would be sexual orientation (homosexual), race (African
American), and gender (male). The independent variable would be the hepatitis B vaccine laced
with the AIDs virus. To the conspiracy theorists, it seemed as though the government targeted a
specific population, but some believe that it was for world population control in general.
4. Using the theory formula, explain each component of the theory (i.e. problem, inductive or
deductive reasoning,and qualitative research) ?
The problem that the theory targets is the origin of the AIDs virus. The deductive
reasoning that helps the conspiracy theorists back up their theory is that a lot of the
experimentation and creation of the hepatitis B vaccines containing the HIV virus was not
documented. In the “The Origin of AIDS and HIV May Not Be What You Have Learnedarticle,
Dr. Gerald Myers is quoted saying that genetic sequencing studies prove some 'punctuated
origin of AIDS event' took place during the mid-1970s giving rise, virtually simultaneously, to at
least ten different HIV 'clades'” (Zacky, 2002). This cannot happen without man-made
involvement.
The qualitative research found by Dr. Horowitz was “contracts proving that chimpanzees,
contaminated with numerous viruses, were used to produce hundreds of hepatitis B vaccine

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doses administered to central African Blacks along with homosexual men in New York City at
precisely the time Dr. Myers and colleagues claim the origin of HIV 'punctuated event' occurred
(Zacky, 2002).
5. What are the other factors that influence the behavior in the theory (culture, religion,etc.)?
Many religions believe that homosexuality is a sin (including the dominant religion in the
United States Christianity). There are also still white supremacists who do not respect African
Americans. These biased ideas may have been more prevalent in the 1970's and this shows that
the people that were specifically targeted in the creation of the AIDs virus may have not just been
“accidental”.

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AIDs Conspiracy Theory 1. What type (Intra/Inter/Community) of theory is it? Why is it that type of theory? The AIDs conspiracy theory is a community theory because many people who believe in this theory think that the CIA created this virus to purposely infect and kill a community. Boyd E. Graves believes that the government modified a sheep virus to produce the AIDs virus. They seemingly put this virus into hepatitis B vaccines that were only “given to gay men and blacks in New York and San Francisco” (Lapidos, 2008). 2. What was/is the concept & constructs of the theory? There are many different sub-theories of the AIDs conspiracy theory, but the basic premise is that the government created the virus. According to the theorists, there was not enough proof that HIV just came to be. The hepatitis B vaccine was produced in chimpanzees and it was given in “New York City, among gay ...
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