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„Past research shows that the increase in conspiracy theories during a pandemic is not a new phenomenon [...]. A misinformation campaign run by the Soviet Committee for State Security claimed HIV to be a biological weapon developed by the US,
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and the widespread belief that AIDS is a conspiracy to kill Black people has a direct impact on prevention behavior [1]. During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015–2016,
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there were speculations that the virus was caused by genetically modified mosquitoes or used by the governments to kill people on purpose [2].”
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Endnotes:
[1] wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/oper…
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/operation-denv…
„In 1992, Director of SVR (a) Yevgeny Primakov (1929–2015) admitted that the KGB was behind the newspaper articles claiming that AIDS was created by the U.S. government (b).”
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(a) x.com/BrajanKot/stat…
(b) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation…
[2] p. 8 (13) ➡ cepa.ecms.pl/files/?id_plik…
p. 53 ➡ state.gov/external-conte…
Source:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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