# Nobel prize winner: AIDS is a bioweapon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477 "2004-10-10T16:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/41 "2004-10-13T03:45:57Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > And, a precedent for giving it to evil, hypocritical frauds! **Eve** , I’d be interested to know your basis for making such a statement. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/42 "2004-10-13T04:01:19Z")
> [@Middlecase](#): > > Aluminium millinery, just to quibble. Although yours is easier to say faster when you’re drunk. You can say Aluminium millinery even when sober? I’m impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/43 "2004-10-13T07:12:50Z")
Oh, _that_ Nobel Prize. There’s a big banner out in front of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle giving kudos to their own Dr. Linda Buck, this year’s winner in Medicine. Frankly, I’m sorta jazzed that there’s a Nobel winner’s lab right on my bus line. Yes, that’s as close to greatness as I get lately, the #70 downtown. But all y’all in Kenya can keep yours. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/44 "2004-10-13T07:38:27Z")
Anyone else end up with [this tune](http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29/) stuck in your head every time you open this thread? _Who’s got the Peace Prize? All y’all in Kenya The Nobel Peace Prize It’s over in Kenya! Only in Kenya, y’all got that Peace Prize!_ ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/45 "2004-10-13T07:40:54Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > **Eve** , I’d be interested to know your basis for making such a statement. She’s obviously referring to Arafat. Anyway the peace price as well as the literary price are completely bullshit and have been so for many years. The only reason anyone notices is that they share name with the other noble prices, which still retain some prestige. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/46 "2004-10-13T07:58:40Z")
**Rune** , no such thing is obvious. Mother Theresa’s saintly image has been tarnished quite a bit by her cozying up to fascists and criminals. Also there has been a lot of noise made about her specific charity being a fraud in which spectacular amounts of money was directed to the Vatican Bank while basic medical services for charity cases were neglected. I dinna know much about it, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477/47 "2004-10-13T11:30:08Z")
I figured it was (at least partly) in reference to Theresa’s impassioned defense (to pre-O.J. Lance Ito) of banker Charles Keating, after he donated some of his stolen money to her charity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-prize-winner-aids-is-a-bioweapon/268477.md?page=2)