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> people probably should look at you like you're crazy, because you're extrapolating People who claimed that UK government gave them AIDS, on purpose, were cal
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> people probably should look at you like you're crazy, because you're extrapolating
People who claimed that UK government gave them AIDS, on purpose, were called crazy. 50 years later, it turns out they were right.
"The blood was imported from the US after a UK shortage, where people such as prisoners could donate in return for cash.
The minutes ..shows that officials knew that haemophiliacs were being given dangerous blood from the US that was making them ill with hepatitis... No one raised the alarm to stop the spread of the blood and instead, officials hoped the imported goods would not get a "bad name".
There was a major effort to supress this information. People has to extrapolate based on limited data.
These situations are not rare - when the workers in Teflon factories were having birth defects and cancers, and started questioning that maybe it's related to their job, they were called crazy too.
In my family we extrapolated based on limited data, twice, and doctors were looking at us like we were crazy, and it turned out we were right. If we didn't press the issue, two family members would have been dead.
So now I am jaded and I have limited faith in Medical establishment and institutions doing their homework.
- hinkley 3y agoOr that orange shit they used to put in microwave popcorn.
- gruez 3y ago>People who claimed that UK government gave them AIDS, on purpose, were called crazy. 50 years later, it turns out they were right. The fact that governments did shady stuff in the past isn't proof for every conspiracy theory under the sun.