Why Do Pathogen Researchers Face Less Scrutiny Than Nuclear Scientists?

Lasrick writes "Derrin Culp of the National Center for Disease Preparedness explores the different levels of scrutiny that scientists in microbiology undergo, when compared to those who work in the nuclear weapons field. His complaint is that, even though America's most notorious biosecurity breach — the 2001 anthrax mailings — was the work of an insider, expert panels have concluded that there is no need for intrusive monitoring of microbiologists engaged in unclassified research."

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I've tried this before but a FAGGOT is such a non-standardized unit of measure no one can seem to come up with a consistently working conversion. Sometimes we ended up with a carton of menthols. Sometimes a big bundle of sticks (why the fuck would I need that?) The worse were the times we ended up with a cheap beer swilling ex high school jock. Seriously inconvenient unit of measure those were and I couldn't trade them for anything useful!