B...but Kanye says the gubmint invented AIDS to kill black people.  How could he be wrong?

Could someone explain to me the exact science of detecting HIV, cause I heard that the way it's detected really isn't a science, which then means it's possible that it doesn't exist...  that's a very short version of the argument but I'd like to know how it's tested before I argue further since I'm split on both sides.

HIV is an RNA virus, or "retrovirus".

It utilizes RNA to replicate itself and then write itself into DNA.

Its verified diagnosis, other than through symptoms that will allow you to test for it, is through chemical means that effectively "highlight" the RNA sequence recognized as being the virus.

It is also verified, once isolated, by electron microscope.

There are only four basic DNA patterns, becuase there are only four basic DNA components:

Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Adenine.

The infinity of all life is a matter of extremely long chains of those components arranged in different patterns.

As we've now discovered, humans carry "inactive" DNA chains...in other words, we're carrying genetic material WE DON'T USE, but they're part of the genetic code.  Becuase we've identified, through computers and computer technology algorithms, that certain DNA combinations are "start code" sequences, and "stop code" sequences...built into those long chains.

It's like having a computer program with a million lines of code, but there are only certain subroutines that are valid with a particular "machine."

Detecting AIDS is detecting a particular subroutine, not in DNA (though it can be detected there, too) but through analysis of RNA (which substitutes the chemical Uracil for Thymine).  We have an idea as to what certain genetic sections of code do, but not all.

Since we can now actually look intracellularly via electron microscope, what we know chemically, we can observe physically in realtime.

The way they map DNA, is chemical representation on sensitive film.  It is accurate enough for court evidence.

They can map the RNA of HIV the same way.

Though it's a bit tough sometimes becuase the translation from RNA to DNA is not perfect, and this is where most of the mutations happen, thus, HIV-1 can mutate EASILY into several polymorphic viruses in just one human patient alone.

But there are recognizable sequences.

And that's what the microbiologists look for.

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