The Plague???

[Keith J]

30 vials of Bubonic Plague??? (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=12&u=/ap/20030116/ap_on_re_us/bubonic_plague_25)
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By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writer

LUBBOCK, Texas - When 30 vials of a deadly bacteria that causes bubonic plague were reported missing from Texas Tech University, anxiety here was palpable. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge contacted the mayor, a terrorism alert was triggered and dozens of investigators from the FBI (news - web sites) and other agencies converged.



But officials said Wednesday the bacteria wasn't missing after all. They alleged a Texas Tech professor had destroyed the vials before reporting their disappearance.

Dr. Thomas C. Butler was arrested Wednesday on a complaint of giving false information to the FBI. According to U.S. Attorney Dick Baker, Butler said Tuesday that vials containing bacteria obtained from tissue samples from East Africa were missing when "truth in fact, as he well knew, he had destroyed them prior to that."

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Absent-minded professor? Why was he even doing that kind of research?
And the academics know best???

[DesertFox]

Too many academics think they know so much more than mere mortals that they are beyond normal standards of honesty and decency.

Nor is this a recent phenomenon. It seems to have been that way pretty-much always.