I do antiviral drug discovery for a living, on HIV among others
And the posted claim is bullshit.
HIV has been isolated. Our partner lab has imaged them with electron microscopy. Our lab produces a non infectious version in cell culture which I have used in the past to characterize assays used to advance drug development, candidates of which have been used in animal trials - If HIV wasn't a thing, then control groups wouldn't develop AIDS when the virus is introduced to them. Labs aren't conspiring to introduce chagas for control groups while claiming they are introducing virus.
Just because there are other pathologies that leads the same phenotypic presentation - Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome - does not mean that is evidence that other pathologies don't exist. What a profoundly simple logical fallacy. That's like saying knives don't kill people because you have irrefutable proof that gunshot wounds do - yeah, well, maybe both do dumbass.
Please remember that a degree does not make you immune to making absurd mistakes and spouting absolute nonsense. Shit people, you should all be very aware of that by now. Use your goddamn brains, don't turn them off the moment you hear something that sounds pleasing to your ear. If you aren't thinking critically when you hear something you like, you're not thinking critically when it matters
The posted claim is bullshit.
HIV has been isolated. Our partner lab has imaged them with electron microscopy. Our lab produces a non infectious version in cell culture which I have used in the past to characterize assays used to advance drug development, candidates of which have been used in animal trials - If HIV wasn't a thing, then control groups wouldn't develop AIDS when the virus is introduced to them. Labs aren't conspiring to introduce chagas for control groups while claiming they are introducing virus.
Just because there are other pathologies that lead to the same phenotypic presentation - Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome - does not mean that is evidence that other pathologies don't exist. What a profoundly simple logical fallacy.
Please remember that a degree does not make you immune to making absurd mistakes and spouting absolute nonsense. Shit people, you should all be very aware of that by now. Use your goddamn brains, don't turn them off the moment you hear something that sounds pleasing to your ear. If you aren't thinking critically when you hear something you like, you're not thinking critically when it matters