I can see why people might be concerned, but reading the article carefully can help a lot. As someone pointed out earlier, the test were to just study the immune reaction to the vaccine, not to actually infect anyone. The test subjects produced antibodies to the virus, so it passed the trial.
Actually, Ebola has an incubation period of up to 3 weeks. Symptoms only appear after the incubation period. That means it is quite possible for someone to be infected and not notice. Check out the "Myths" section in Wikipedia's article on Ebola.
I think most of the fallacies of this post have been sufficiently demonstrated, but I would just like to add that China would need oil, too. Unless the Chinese government decided to skip nukes as a last resort and switch to guerilla warfare, a war between the US and China would be a conventional war, which, even with nukes in play, would not be impossible to win; just very difficult (the trick is to develop anti-missile technology to the point where they're reliable enough to down virtually all enemy warheads, which is, admittedly, some way off). There are many points that could still be made, but I think you get the idea.
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I can see why people might be concerned, but reading the article carefully can help a lot. As someone pointed out earlier, the test were to just study the immune reaction to the vaccine, not to actually infect anyone. The test subjects produced antibodies to the virus, so it passed the trial.
Well, I said up to 3 weeks; 1 to 2 may be the mean period.
Actually, Ebola has an incubation period of up to 3 weeks. Symptoms only appear after the incubation period. That means it is quite possible for someone to be infected and not notice. Check out the "Myths" section in Wikipedia's article on Ebola.
I think most of the fallacies of this post have been sufficiently demonstrated, but I would just like to add that China would need oil, too. Unless the Chinese government decided to skip nukes as a last resort and switch to guerilla warfare, a war between the US and China would be a conventional war, which, even with nukes in play, would not be impossible to win; just very difficult (the trick is to develop anti-missile technology to the point where they're reliable enough to down virtually all enemy warheads, which is, admittedly, some way off). There are many points that could still be made, but I think you get the idea.