Art or Bioterrorism: Who Cares? - 10 Zen Monkeys - 0 views
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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 01 Apr 09Just because the federal authorities are wrong, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. Story about an artist whose media includes the use of harmless microorganisms (bacteria are not invariably pathogenic, contrary to some seem to imagine) who, having been mistaken for a bioterrorist by a few emergency medical technicians and FBI agents who had seen one too many episodes of 24, found that the agency's response to discovering that it was wrong was to try to find some charge, any charge that it could trump up, in order to cover its posterior.