ABSTRACT
The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) establishment has typically responded to the charge of racism with the counter accusation that criticisms deny an African AIDS epidemic, giving African governments an excuse not to take measures to contain the epidemic. The AIDS was first recognized as a clinical entity in 1981 in the United States, and although the majority of cases even today have been reported from the United States, the Western scientific community has convinced the world that it is primarily an African disease and an African problem. Western scientists have promoted the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic began in Africa, arguing that either AIDS had existed for many years in an African “lost tribe” or that a retro virus crossed the species barrier from monkey to man. Sound scientific methodology surely dictates that evidence contrary to a proposed hypothesis should be sought as vigorously as evidence for the hypothesis.
