U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – When AIDS began rampaging through major U.S. cities in the early 1980s, it wasn’t long before conspiracy theories sprouted. One widely repeated and baseless rumor had it that scientists working for the CIA had created HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as part of an experiment that spun out of control. So it perhaps should be no surprise that a raft of myths and conspiracy theories are circulating online in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Read more.