Bird flu bird brains and Bush brains
Really, really dumb. No, that's too kind.Posted on October 12, 2008 3:40 PM • 7 Comments •
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Bioterrorism:
Why would any sane person put a Level 4 biodefense lab in Galveston?
I guess they have flood insurance.Posted on September 13, 2008 7:16 AM • 27 Comments •
Anthrax comes to Congress
So who had means, motive and opportunity?Posted on September 8, 2008 7:06 AM • 16 Comments •
Obama takes a science test
We grade Obama on four of his answers to 14 questions about science and provide the link to the rest.Posted on August 31, 2008 3:20 PM • 17 Comments •
Military biodefense labs try to look safe
Another theater in the war against whatever. Security Theater.Posted on August 28, 2008 7:12 AM • 6 Comments •
Where's the best place for a new high tech biodefense lab? MIssissippi, where else?
Build it and they will come. Mississippi beckons.Posted on August 12, 2008 7:21 AM • 18 Comments •
More anthrax case questions
How did Bruce Ivins die?Posted on August 11, 2008 7:23 AM • 8 Comments •
Anthrax investigation: what's that aroma?
The anthrax investigation is turning into a stinker.Posted on August 7, 2008 7:24 AM • 16 Comments •
Anthrax and credibility
Swallowing anthrax.Posted on August 4, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 Comments •
Bush's CDC is a freak accident waiting to happen
Managerial competence outage at CDC.Posted on July 14, 2008 7:05 AM • 25 Comments •
Project Bioshield comes up dry again
Boondoggle or scam? Take you pick.Posted on July 12, 2008 7:39 AM • 2 Comments •
Don't worry. The CDC labs are perfectly safe.
Don't worry. Be happy.Posted on June 24, 2008 7:24 AM • 6 Comments •
The biodefense boondoggle
Business as usual.Posted on June 1, 2008 3:30 PM • 3 Comments •
The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments •
Adenovirus serotype 14 and come what may
Preparing for whatever.Posted on December 12, 2007 7:19 AM • 4 Comments •
Chemical plants: internal dangers, external costs
Bruce Schneier, the security guru at Wired's Danger Room blog, reminds us of something important: It's not true that no one worries about terrorists attacking chemical plants, it's just that our politics seem to leave us unable to deal with...Posted on October 29, 2007 3:56 PM • 6 Comments •
Bioterrorism program victim
I find this story disgusting.Posted on October 16, 2007 4:02 PM • 12 Comments •
Terror in the kitchen
Maybe they were trying to start an obesity epidemic.Posted on October 5, 2007 3:58 PM • 10 Comments •
A research agenda without foresight or prudence
Damn the bacilli! Full speed ahead!Posted on October 3, 2007 4:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Sucking up to the feds
George Mason to the government: nice rackPosted on October 1, 2007 3:54 PM • 8 Comments •
Let them eat anthrax vaccine
Ten million doses of a vaccine we don't need.Posted on September 30, 2007 2:17 PM • 13 Comments •
Don't ask, don't tell at CDC
Citizen discovers powerful overlooked technique to find problems at biodefense labs.Posted on September 26, 2007 4:02 PM • 4 Comments •
The biodefense lab iceberg
Ebola, Lassa Fever in the lab? Don't mention it.Posted on September 20, 2007 4:23 PM • 8 Comments •
What's under the biodefense rock?
The old "absence of evidence" routine.Posted on September 19, 2007 4:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Nightmare at Texas A&M
Deliver us from evil.Posted on September 13, 2007 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Biodefense lab accident -- again
Anthrax, this time.Posted on August 16, 2007 4:47 PM • 4 Comments •
The UK has BSL4 labs, too. Happy?
How do you spell relief? (Answer: BSL4)Posted on August 10, 2007 4:11 PM • 0 Comments •
Bioweapons proliferation policy: stupid is as stupid does
How dumb can you get? Pretty dumb.Posted on August 4, 2007 7:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Biodefense labs: more of a bad thing
A bad idea whose time keeps coming.Posted on July 12, 2007 7:45 AM • 7 Comments •
CDC halts research at biodefense lab in Texas
Biodefense bucks. Easy come, easy go.Posted on July 3, 2007 4:41 PM • 2 Comments •
Still another lab accident at the same bioweapons facility
More infections in the same lab as the brucellosis cases.Posted on June 27, 2007 7:00 AM • 20 Comments •
The anthrax drug boondoggle
And I thought my prescription drugs were expensive. The US government has just announced it was exercising its option to buy 20,000 treatment courses of ABthrax (raxibacumab) from Human Genome Sciences. That's $8250 a pop. It will go into the...Posted on July 6, 2006 8:01 AM • 6 Comments •
