The Washington Post asks, "Was it ‘crazy’ for this scientist to re-create a bird flu virus that killed 50 million people?" Let me cut to the chase. Yes. Just about anyone paying heed the past five to 10 years might have noticed a near-constant drumbeat on the possibility of pandemic: SARS, bird flu, swine flu …
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In the scare-of-the-week news story we learn that Bed, Bath & Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissue holders across the country. It allegedly started when just four metal tissue box covers buried in a transport truck set off radiation detectors installed after 911 to protect us from a terrorist threat. Who knew truck-stop Geiger counters …
Why is it that we'd rather tolerate celebrities who are dangerously doped up than accept the fact that they're human?