{"id":103820,"date":"2020-03-15T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/hiv-created-by-scientist-for-biological-warfare-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T01:06:13","slug":"hiv-created-by-scientist-for-biological-warfare-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/hiv-created-by-scientist-for-biological-warfare-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says","title":{"rendered":"HIV \u2018Created by Scientist\u2019 for Biological Warfare, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hiv-created-by-scientist-for-biological-warfare-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai \u2014 who on Friday became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 on Saturday repeated her previous claims that HIV was \u201ccreated by a scientist for biological warfare,\u201d reports. In August, Kenya\u2019s quoted Maathai as saying that HIV\/AIDS was created by scientists \u201cfor the purpose of mass extermination,\u201d according to. \u201cWe know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to primitive people. They have the resources to do this,\u201d the quoted Maathai as saying during a workshop on Aug. 30 in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri, according to. \u201cAIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did,\u201d she added, according to the, reports (, 10\/9) Saturday, Maathai repeated her belief that HIV was deliberately \u201cdevised to destroy black people,\u201d according to. She added that her comments published in the were \u201cintended to promote an inquiring attitude\u201d toward HIV\/AIDS among Africans and \u201ccombat the fatalistic notion that it was a curse from God,\u201d reports. \u201cWould you solve the problem if you believed it was a curse from God?\u201d Maathai asked, adding that she was \u201cencouraging people to ask questions.\u201d Although Maathai said she never indicated that a specific region or nation was responsible for creating HIV\/AIDS, she is \u201csuspicious\u201d about the \u201csecrecy surrounding the origin of the virus,\u201d according to. \u201cSome people say it came from the monkeys, and I doubt it. \u2026 But I say it cannot be that only black people are cursed because we are dying more than any other people on this planet, and that\u2019s a fact\u201d (Kanina\u201e 10\/9).<\/p>\n<p><b> Reaction<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although the United States \u201ccongratulated\u201d Maathai on Friday for winning the Nobel Prize, officials also \u201ctempered [their] praise\u201d about her claims that HIV\/AIDS was created as a biological weapon, according to South Africa\u2019s. \u201cShe\u2019s had many long years of environmental activism,\u201d Department of State spokesperson Richard Boucher said, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to see that she\u2019s the first African woman to have been selected for this unique honor.\u201d However, an unnamed State Department senior official said that the department \u201cvehemently\u201d objected to Maathai\u2019s comments concerning the origin of HIV, the reports. \u201cShe said HIV\/AIDS was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West,\u201d the official said, adding, \u201cWe don\u2019t agree with that\u201d (, 10\/9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai \u2014 who on Friday became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 on Saturday repeated her previous claims that HIV was \u201ccreated by a scientist for biological warfare,\u201d reports. 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