Militarized ticks?

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Militarized ticks?

#1 Post by SpacemanSpiff » Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:41 am

Just to show that Alabama doesn't hold a monopoly on strange-thinking politicians, along comes this story.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... -find-out/

New Jersey representative Chris Smith has introduced an amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to investigate whether or not Lyme disease was weaponized and accidentally introduced into the wild by the military during the Cold War. We'll see how far this goes.
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Re: Militarized ticks?

#2 Post by BackInTex » Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:50 pm

SpacemanSpiff wrote:Just to show that Alabama doesn't hold a monopoly on strange-thinking politicians, along comes this story.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-m ... -find-out/

New Jersey representative Chris Smith has introduced an amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to investigate whether or not Lyme disease was weaponized and accidentally introduced into the wild by the military during the Cold War. We'll see how far this goes.
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