Posted on 06/03/2004 4:30:40 PM PDT by genefromjersey
The old "Iron Curtain" countries - especially Russia - are loaded with military goodies-including chemical and biowarfare agents; and they are cash-starved.
If you were to check, you'd find all manner of "dual-use" research and development facilities in places where Russia ran things. They called it the Biopreparat system,and it has been in continuous operation since at least 1974.
India, Pakistan,Syria,Egypt,Iraq,etc. all have or had biopreparat setups,and the infamous "aspirin factory" in Somalia might well have been just such a facility - politics aside.
White tennis shoes with fuses attached, maybe.
Well, don't. Many of these P.O.S.s have gotten the best education in the world, right here in the US. Take a look at the woman who was on the list released by the FBI last week. She's got an advanced degree from MIT.
Just because these people have backwards beliefs, and are completely amoral (by our standards) does NOT mean that they're not capable of becoming world class scientists and use their knowledge and skills to kill us.
Mark
Man's incessant interference with nature. Just my opinion, Physicist.
Correct.
Some virus hit all the grasses (including wheat) in the world.
Results were pretty ugly.
OK, you don't like it. But how does it increase the mutation rate? That's a quantitative question, not a matter of opinion.
Ah, but I can't quantify my answer because only science will either confirm or deny. And in the case of scientific discovery and subsequent "proof", it will still be a matter of opinion (to me). It doesn't really matter to me. We continue to reap the consequences of our actions, be they rewards or punishments. I'm in the food business for 25 years and I've watched the bounce from "real" food (no packages, cans only) to "functional" food (processed foods in which nutrition has been removed only to be put back by food scientists) and now GMO's which are everywhere unless they are marked FDA Organic. The choice is ours.
absolutely, an attack on one product will affect everything else. That is what our enemies are counting on.
No but I can envision Chinese who trained in American universities in white lab coats providing bioterror to Al Quaeda.
Ruh Ro I'm in trouble now (FReepMail on way covering this topic)
Ping. You might be interested in this.
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