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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: Trying to contain the uncontainable...
Anyone who does not realize how dangerous microbiology labs are, which is most people, should read this well-researched book by investigative reporter Alison Young. For years Alison Young was a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the primary newspaper in Atlanta, which also happens to be the location of one of the most dangerous lab complexes in the world, operated by the U.S. CDC. The CDC’s Atlanta facility is where U.S. public health officials send the world’s most dangerous viruses, including smallpox and Ebola. Does the CDC’s Atlanta complex have a perfect safety record? Not even close, as Young documents. Is the CDC’s Atlanta complex uniquely bad? Again, not even close. All biocontainment facilities have flaws and failures. Lab leaks are inevitable, it is just a matter of time...
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