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#1367372
jsonitsac
All that is on Plum Island is an agricultural research station. It is highly secure because the government is experimenting with hoof and mouth disease there and want to keep it quarantined there and not get into the US livestock population.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/research.htm
1/19/2012 5:11:27 AM
#1367394
Bollox
Woah, somebody ate Alphabetti Spaghetti and then threw up.
1/19/2012 5:52:55 AM
#1367401
Raised by Horses
Congratulations! You have just discovered words. Maybe some day you will learn how they fit together.
1/19/2012 6:17:20 AM
#1367403
aaa
I doubt that CIA would need to create a "threat" that has already been created. This conspiracy theory of yours is flimsy and far too risky/inefficient for modern-day intelligence agencies. Besides, drug-resistant strains aren't exactly a new thing and Tuberculosis is pretty shitty for propaganda purposes and as a bio-weapon.
1/19/2012 6:21:37 AM
#1367424
Reynardine
All it took for a completely drug-resistant strain of TB to surface is a malnourished population, living in crowded, unhygienic conditions, who because of inadequate access to medical care and treatment resort to self- help with insufficient antibiotics, and all it takes to spread it around the world is some jet-setters and a lot of uninspected produce. This is, in short, the fruit of so-called free enterprise and its increasingly two-class society, and the CIA doesn't have a damn thing to do with it.
1/19/2012 6:55:22 AM
#1367452
Doubting Thomas
Because there are no radical Muslims who hate America and what it stands for. It's all CIA-generated propaganda.
1/19/2012 8:15:20 AM
#1367628
Brendan Rizzo
Nope. This is entirely your fault, America. You're the ones who insisted on using antibacterial soaps all the time despite the overwhelming evidence that all they do is increase the rate of drug-resistant bacteria. You brought this on yourselves. I feel no sympathy for you. None whatsoever. Can we give a Darwin Award to an entire country, please?
1/19/2012 8:06:41 PM
#1367641
@ Brendan Rizzo
Antibacterial soap? You're joking, right? No doubt overuse of antibiotics is to blame in some way, but soap? I hope you're not the type that believes vaccines cause autism or other crap like that.
1/19/2012 9:40:49 PM
#1367660
Antibiotics themselves would have caused new strains of resistant bugs so let's not get all weird and angry.
1/20/2012 12:27:03 AM
#1367957
I like to imagine this is really Edward Norton and that he spends his free time trolling wired and spreading weird CIA centric conspiracy theories.
1/20/2012 2:12:54 PM
#1368140
Reynardine
Doubting Thomas, you have succeeded in making an entirely irrelevant remark.
1/21/2012 11:55:07 AM
#1368291
Doubting Thomas
@Reynardine
How is that? The OP basically stated that any terrorist attacks here in the US (or at least the next one) are orchestrated by the CIA and blamed on radical Muslims.
1/22/2012 8:53:11 AM
#1368299
Ok, try to deal with rotten food or with samples of virus or bacteriae, if you're so sure that the government is pulling your leg.
1/22/2012 9:07:17 AM
#1368434
Anon
>>Brendan Rizzo
Nope. This is entirely your fault, America.<<
You do appreciate that drug-resistant TB shows up mostly outside the US, right? And that the completely resistant strain has only been found in India and possibly in Iran so far?
The US isn't to blame for this one, except to the extent that dedicated campaigns to contain multi-resistant TB, which this one evolved from, could have happened much earlier than they did if there had been more investment and then we might not have had the resistant bugs crossing with each other to make the this new strain. And the US far from the only culprit there.
1/22/2012 11:55:52 PM
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