Irresponsible Aggies
by Ramzlita on Apr 16, 2007 2:37 PM CDT
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PrintShocking news from Aggieland, via afterdowningstreet.org:
Texas A&M University failed to report in a timely manner to Federal authorities that a biology student was stricken with the dangerous brucella pathogen in its College Station laboratory for bioweapons agent research on February 9th of 2006. The university made its disclosure this April 10th, 14 months later, and only after insistent prodding by the Sunshine Project, an Austin, Tex.-based arms control watchdog organization.
Under Federal law, such incidents are supposed to be reported within seven days to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.
The article goes on to report that A&M officials likely discussed reporting the incident, but eventually refrained.
How can they be so irresponsible with something like this? And more importantly, why are we letting Aggies experiment with bioweapons in the first place?
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Why we let them experiment with bioweapons.
Because if something goes terribly wrong we lose B/CS. It the same reason we tested nuclear arms in the desert and at the Bikini Atoll.
Those websites
take something that was a mistake by some compliance officer and turn it into more evidence that the Bush administration should be impeached.
But, then again, these nutballs help to keep things on the up and up, so I guess they do have a purpose.
I hate to say it...
We are living in a glass house on this one.
sunshine project story
wow
that UT incident is much worse. I know the Sunshine Project has soom crazies, but even if that Bird Flu case is half true - UT was really in the wrong.
This sort of shit just reinforces the feeling that just because someone is an expert in a field doesn't mean you have to trust your life with them.
Didnt Tech fail to report something recently too?
seems like this happens every now and then. Probably because professors don't know all the regulations behind the stuff theyre tinkering with.
by the other Andrew on Apr 17, 2007 8:56 AM CDT reply actions
I am sure it happens all the time
the amount of regulation that is involved with these things is ridiculous. Good, common sense requirements, like reporting incidents, are mixed in with piles of bureaucratic junk. Add to that a university environment, which does not have the organization structure or resources to properly regulate themselves, and you get problems.
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