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Gus12/31/2010 9:28:17 am PST

Here’s her buddy Leonard Horowitz.

Horowitz is the most publicized proponent of the conspiracy theory that HIV was deliberately designed by US military lab in the 1970s for use as a genocidal weapon. The scientific consensus is that HIV is a variation of simian immunodeficiency virus that crossed into humans and mutated into a virus lethal to humans…

On April 27, 2008, Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, during questions and answers at the National Press Club in connection with the general controversy over his opinions, was asked by a moderator, “In your sermon, you said the government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. So I ask you: Do you honestly believe your statement and those words?” Wright responded, “Have you read Horowitz’s book, “Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola,” whoever wrote that question? …. I read different things. As I said to my members, if you haven’t read things, then you can’t – based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything.”

On October 7, 2009, Horowitz told al Jazeera that H1N1 vaccines would cause sterility, as part of a plan of “pangenocide” against Muslims. An identical claim was previously circulated by Muslim clerics in Kano, Nigeria in 2003, leading to a resurgence of polio in North Africa. Horowitz was a speaker at Conspiracy Con in 2001, 2004 and 2007.