Jim Wallis

Can we just spike the world’s water supply with Prozac?

Most of my discoveries are during a hot shower. 🤷‍♀️

Wow! What a great teaching aid!

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Rabbit?

The news section of the Journal is much more agnostic than the op-ed. It’s hilarious when they take apparently opposing positions!

No one really knows.

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“Single use”. Yikes.

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Thanks! So now that I’ve been here a month, how do I demote that post! 😆

I think Godzilla is supposed to be allegorical, anyway. More like a warning than existential. 😉

It’s just like the stupid superhero situation. You give all of these powers to a character, and then the film is completely uninteresting unless there is an equally powerful adversary. Meanwhile, the entire thing becomes increasingly unrelatable.

Night flying is the best!

Had a few minutes on a 737 simulator years ago. Easy peasy. All airplanes fly the same - you just have to flare a little higher for the big ones. ;)

Always room for improvement.

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8/8. I hate to sound like an anti-government yahoo, but I’m really offended by the way resources get sucked away from work that is genuinely intended to make the world a better place because some bureaucrat needs a job.

(Thanks for putting up with the rant!)

7/x. They said no.

Did the agent become more dangerous since then? No. Did our understanding of the agent change? No. It simply became more dangerous because the government decided to make it that way to justify regulating it.

6/x. In other words, we are less safe.

As a post script: I did a little work (pre-select agent) with botulinum toxin. Just to be on the safe side, I checked in with Environmental Health and Safety to see if there were any special precautions suggested or required….

5/x. The net effect of these rules was to cause many (in the hundreds) labs to dispose of their agents rather than comply with the new burdensome regulations. Undoubtedly this translated to the lose of invaluable strains, as well as labs which no longer work with them.

4/x. The real motivation behind these rules is to prevent the conversion of these agents into weapons. But making a biological weapon is not facile. It takes technical skill. So why wouldn’t such a person also have the skill to do a basic isolation?

3/x. Having said that, the regulations surrounding microorganisms including many or most select agents are completely absurd. Let’s just take, I don’t know, practically the worst one: C. botulinum. Why in the world would anyone care if that was released? It’s already in my back yard anyway!

2/x. When I was in grad school a while back I did a little work with radionuclides. I started a little informal monitoring program and realized the lab next door (in chem annex!) was pretty widely contaminated!

1/x When I reply in a thread here, does everyone up the thread see it? Jonathan?

There is some truth to what you both say: I can agree that labs are not always as careful as they could be. I think things are getting better - sorry to say that some of that is due to increased regulation…

Sounds like a keeper!

This is crazy.

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