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Irresponsible Aggies

Shocking 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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