Another Dead Scientist

Listening: Michael Tsarion on Coast to Coast am. HOTT.

Feeling: Shocked that this story is STILL not making headlines.

Prediction: This story has got to break within the next two months.

Well, this is what you call blogging in action.

A man was discovered dead today outside the Baylor Medical College in Houston, Texas, with six or seven bullet holes in his body. His body had been dumped there, in front of the busy college during the daylight hours. This hasn't made it to the papers yet.

It has been learned that he was a scientist working at the college and that he'd been doing some research on the human genome. His name has not yet been released as this news is so fresh his family still hadn't been informed at the time of the report I heard a couple of hours ago.

So yet another one to go down. My prayers go out to his family as well as the families of the other 2005 victims so far:

David Banks, age 55. Died: May 8, 2005. Another Auusie to go down. He was working on infectious diseases. Died in a plane crash. Microbiologist.

Dr. Douglas James Passaro, age 43. Died April 18, 2005. Cause of death unknown. Epidemiologist/Microbiologist.

Todd Kauppila, age 41. Died: May 8, 2005. 2005. Cause of death: hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Worked at Los Alamos National Labs in the US on top secret projects.

Geetha Angara, age 43. Died: February 8, 2005. A Chemist, she was found dead in a water treatment tank at the lab where she worked in New Jersey.

Jeong H. Im, age 72. Died: January 7, 2005. Stabbed to death multiple times and left in the trunk of a burning car. Microbiologist.

Heads-up, people.

The total count (that we know of) is now up to around 55 dead scientists in 4 years. How many Iraqi or other Arab scientists have also died? And what kind of a climax is this building up to?

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