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- RocquesDiggs, on 09/11/2008, -0/+7This is crazy. They have all these infectious disease bacteria samples yet no policy on what to do with them? Maybe we need separation of science and government? The samples were destroyed, but the title makes it seem like they were stolen. They had been there since 2006. It seems that they were the center of some dispute. Maybe this could be made into some great sci fi bad movie plot.
- dancantone, on 09/11/2008, -0/+4"They have all these infectious disease bacteria samples yet no policy on what to do with them?"
The first thing I thought! ;) yeah right! - inactive, on 09/11/2008, -5/+7" The Center for Disease Control states however that a vast majority of the bacterial samples can be found inside Paris Hilton's vagina. Agents working for the CDC have already been dispatched to Hilton's Malibu estate. "
- atact88, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Headline makes for eye catcher. Article is... pretty lame. Other companies and institutions are dedicated to having a library of various microbes, and probably includes all of these and more. The University of Pittsburgh is just pissed that it didn't get its freebies.
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Surely you can add something more interesting in the description then simply repeating the title? That's why I buried.
- AaronCo, on 09/11/2008, -0/+2Just more proof that for most technical positions you should promote from within, only former researchers should manage other researchers.
Oh well, bright side... it's not like we're going to run out of bacteria anytime soon. - mynameistux, on 09/11/2008, -3/+4old macdonald had a farm, ee i ee i o
and on that farm he had a single cell organism
where the ***** did it go? - inactive, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1look in my refrigerator.
- abandonnship, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1They might include them, unless they were doing lots of testing on their samples which included making new genetic variants (which can be time consuming, costly, and frustrating) which they don't have to send to other labs unless they've published articles using these strains. It was 25 years, nearly a career's worth of work, lost because someone was angry at the lab and decided to be a dick.
- jemminger, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1can it happen again? yes, here's the formula:
1. collect 10,000 specimens
2. lose them - BOFH2, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Can it happen again, Yes. Should it happen, No. Guess the MSM has people on digg submitting stories to try and scare people.
- Paramnesia, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Couple of employees were pissed at each other and decided to destroy 10,000 bacterial samples to get even? BS
- dannywhite1, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0fantastic procedures to keep these safe...
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http://www.visitcamposol.com/ - bkII, on 09/11/2008, -0/+0Yeah the title made it seem like those samples could be anywhere and randomly growing everywhere;
And I'm gonna agree: this could easily be a sci fi movie - JonkyB, on 09/11/2008, -0/+0No way does separation of science and government make sense at this point. Aside from the private sector, such as drug companies, pretty much all academic research, including that described in this article, is funded by the government. The only alternative would be complete privatization of the grant-giving system, and unless you're a libertarian, that doesn't really make much sense.
- palehorse864, on 09/11/2008, -4/+2Well it is kind of easy to lose tiny things. I lose my car keys sometimes, and these are way smaller!
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