Sometimes, the overlords at Seed have good ideas. Scienceblogs for example. The energy blog. Even the new life sciences site.
And other times, they go a bit off the deep end trying to hype up traffic by scaring the bejebus out of readers. Like today. Right now on the Sb homepage related to the latest topic at the life science blog:
What should humanity anticipate from WWIII?
Okay. Now I get bioterrorism is a serious threat. Nearly everyone in my Senate office was on Cipro after anthrax was found in the elevator on our side of the building. But that said, come on... 'WWIII'?
Alarmist some? Sure, the world's a tinderbox lately. Especially in the middle east and yes, many directions we look. But invoking the name of a war I sincerely hope we never see, is just well, irresponsible. I'm all for Invitrogen (the blog's corporate sponsor). They make good primers for sequencing DNA and this has nothing to do with their business. And I do understand the incentive--of course, the biodefense question will spike comments and pageviews. I just hope in terms of viruses, DNA, and microorganisms, we can do a little better than frightening folks about impending world war. Besides, our own war on bacteria is pretty darn scary enough.
