[TheBigB]

Same here. BS in microbiology; MS in Biological Science with an emphasis on virology. Studied Stats at the graduate level.

Your own degrees are scientific in nature, I assume?

[carl in alaska]

Hey pal, I have a BS in biochemistry from UC San Diego, and I'm concerned about SARS and the ultimate ramifications of using recombinant DNA technology on viruses. You should be too. I've worked with a lot of good scientists. They tend to love all the details of the technology they're using, but they don't think enough about the long-term implications of what they're doing and how it will affect people outside their lab. Scientists tend to be narrow-minded technicians instead of strategists and humanists. This is why they are dangerous, and if you can't see this danger I suggest you keep looking.

[DBtoo]

Do you remember hearing about a mystery flu that struck Madagscar last summer? It started in mid summer, and by Aug. 18 after WHO went in and cut off all further reporting, there were around 22,000 cases and 800 deaths. I don't know what the final figures were, since after Aug. 18 there seemed to be a total news blackout on the matter.