Brendan O'Neill argues that the idea of an AIDS pandemic was politically manufactured:
It is time to recognise that the Aids scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics of the past 30 years. Instead of being treated as a sexually transmitted disease that affected certain high-risk communities, and which should be vociferously tackled by the medical authorities, the "war against Aids" was turned into moral crusade.
I'm pretty proud that I ran one of the first pieces making this case - Michael Fumento's "The Myth Of Heterosexual AIDS" - in TNR back in the early 1990s. Made me more friends in the gay community, of course.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/06/politics-vs-epidemiology/215228/
