AIDS is not a retrovirus. HIV is a retrovirus and is claimed to be the cause of the large collection of diseases that are lumped together under the term AIDS.
This is well known.
It is also unproven. Just for drill do a Google search looking for the definitive evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Good luck. You will need lots of time on your hands. But be forwarned - you will come up empty.
HIV is proven as cause of AIDS, just because a couple of lunatics on the internet spout conspiracy theories, does not mean there is a valid debate on the subject. There was some HIV+ woman awhile back who did not believe the virus caused AIDS, so she did not take anti-retrovirals and had two kids, breastfeeding them for years. Naturally both developed AIDS.
Anyone who doubts the connection between HIV and AIDS should infect himself with HIV and not take retrovirals thus showing everyone he/she is right. This chart of virus particles vs immune cells has been around for years and tells the whole story.
The good news is that medical science has developed effective ways to keep the disease under control, with the newest retroviral therapy, it is better to have HIV than to have type 2 diabetes in terms of long term prognosis.
If you screen HIV from the blood supply, no one gets AIDS from a blood transfusion.
While it is a fact that the connection between HIV and AIDS wasn’t found through traditional methods, you can’t argue away the connection between them.