Archive for August 11th, 2008

NBAF Insanity: Was Site selection ever about Safety?

On August 11th, the AP released a story that vindicates a lot of people who oppose the NBAF and the entire methodology used to justify it’s placement on the US mainland. For everyone else you should be very concerned. The DHS Undersecretary Jay Cohen  (a political appointee by George Bush nominated in June 2006), is disregarding his own government experts and [...]

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Bias at DHS Led to poor site for $451 mil lab,AP reports

Source: AP/ Huffington Post
By Larry Margasak – Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi _ home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency _ as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world’s most virulent biological threats, [...]

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Untrained Scientists using dangerous agents without proper biocontainment

Here is a scientific wake up call if I ever saw one, Dr Jeannette Adu-Bobie lost an arm and a leg and all they can say is:
“I regret the failure of the original investigation to reach what now appears a reasonable conclusion and apologise for any distress this may have caused. We acknowledge the ordeal that [...]

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