Worst science of 2014
Ebola was the big health story this year.. but the bigger blunder few recall happened in June, when a labratory made mistakes that exposed 75 US researchers to anthrax. Then in July, more bonehead mistakes almost got bad for the human race when it was discovered that the NIH misplaced 16 vials of smallpox. They were found in a storage closet.. Seriously people?? Eradicated in 1980. Found in a closet in 2014.. And the mistakes didn’t stop in the summer–just on Christmas Eve the CDC announced another potential Ebola exposure in a lab in Atlanta..
