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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 03:42 PM
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What the hell is going on in university labs?
First, we have a young woman at Yale, killed in a lab.

http://www.volunteertv.com/national/headlines/59611637.html


Then we have a young woman's throat cut in a lab at UCLA:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/10/ucla.stabbing/index.html

Now we have Harvard lab workers poisoned:

http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/hc-harvard-lab-workers-poisoned-1025,0,3561022.story


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University says six researchers who became sick in August apparently were poisoned.

The Boston Herald says a memo released Friday says the group drank from a coffee machine on Aug. 26 that later tested positive for sodium azide, a common preservative used in labs.

The six reported symptoms ranging from dizziness to gar ringing, and one passed out. They were treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and later released.

The researchers all work in the Harvard Medical School's pathology department using mice to investigate how diseases interact with the immune system.

Harvard says authorities are investigating the incident, and the school is tightening security in the building, in part by adding surveillance cameras.



Maybe it's just me, but all of these incident seem to be leading to complete surveillance of all scientific experimentation done on university campuses. It only takes a few incidences.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 03:46 PM
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1. Coincidences. No more,no less.
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metapunditedgy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 03:47 PM
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2. Malicious people exist.
Someone put arsenic in the coffee at their church a few years ago. If someone wants to hurt you, they probably can. Sadly, it happens. Fortunately, not too common.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 03:48 PM
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3. Probably coincidence. Don't let the MSM an excuse to cause mass hysteria.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 03:52 PM
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4. 2 appear to misogyny
Edited on Sun Nov-01-09 03:52 PM by AllentownJake
1 appears to be someone pissed off at his co-workers.

The two misogyny incidents are probably do to two smart woment working along side men and the men not able to handle it.

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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 04:28 PM
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5. Its called crime and it can happen to anyone - not every one loves everyone else
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 08:21 PM
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6. Weren't there about a hundred dead scientists,
most often microbiologists, during the Bush era?

Dead suddenly and in odd circumstances?
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 09:37 PM
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7. Anthrax scientists. but Not 100,
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