“It’s reasonable to ask: did this come from a biological weapons program research facility? And if yes, was it bacteria enhanced or altered in any way?” –Tommy Vietor reacting to the reports of a Russian scientist dying of a pneumonic plague.

@TVietor08 Point of fact for @brhodes: it is actually completely normal for scientists to go to work and study plague. There are academic and government labs all over the U.S (and globally), full of good and hardworking people, who do that every single day.