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Have you been reading about the scientist who committed suicide because he was about to be arrested for sending anthrax through the mail?  Something about the recent articles rang a bell with me so I went and searched my files, and amazingly, actually found what I was looking for.

This is a link to a post I made a while ago about lobbying dooming us from getting a better anthrax vaccine.  Some of the people on AI had military family that got the 'worse' vaccine.
 
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/02/nation/na-anthrax2
 
Here is the link to what they've figured out so far on the scientist behind the mailings.
 
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax2-2008aug02,0,5397220,full.story
 
Pip
The most troubling piece of this story is that someone who was supposed to be working on a cure for something did this!  He allegedly wanted to create more demand for a product he would be able to patent.  How scary is that??????  Makes some crazy conspiracy theory I heard about something 'escaping' a lab sound just a tiny bit more plausible.  Yikes!!!!! This is so 'wrong' on so many levels that I just can't fathom it.
 
Pip
Hubby made a good analogy, I think.  He says it is like firemen who set fires so they can be heroes and put them out.  Makes sense, except the vaccine development has a financial incentive, too.  
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