Real Face of Bioterrorism

George Smith scouts out reality from fiction:

The US government — specifically the Defense Threat Reduction Agency — paid to find out the level of threat that might be posed by oversees black market botox production being taken over by terrorists. And it was all over the news recently.

It’s worth noting the inspiration for analyzing such a problem — the diversion of botox to bad people — was minted here in the US, courtesy of the biodefense research industry. First.

In fact, mundane reality may reproduce the American model — the incidental poisoning of a few people here or there overseas, lining up for black market de-wrinklings, overdosed by the careless and incompetent greedy wanting a piece of the beauty industry action. 

Check out the post. It's a little long, but interesting.

Comments

[sheerahkahn]

I never truly understood why anyone would willingly inject themselves with a chemical that is, for all intents and purposes, a waste product of a bacterium that can kill you if ingested.
Just boggles my mind.