You've just won a lifetime supply of pus-filled livestock!

If the Department of Homeland Security is fudging the data to bump up a politically well-connected state onto its list of finalists for the terror plague death factory (NBAF), that illustrates why a lot of people are uneasy about this project.

Is ignoring your own internal criteria and ratings really a good idea when what you’re building will house germs could potentially (slim chance, yes, but still) kill thousands of cows, pigs and deer for miles around?

If the top brass at DHS are willing to tell their own site evaluation team to go fly a kite, what other aspects of the lab’s operation will be subject to political rather than scientific considerations?

Are we getting the straight scoop here?