On the Media: Toxic Scenario

[MP3] A recent New York Times op-ed detailed this terrifying scenario: With the help of an overseas black-market lab and an online recipe, terrorists prepare a toxic solution of botulism toxin and deposit it in a dairy farm tank. The poisoned milk taints a processing plant, and results in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Terrifying… and far-fetched, according to other scientists. But because of the newspaper's no-rebuttals policy, the op-ed never stood corrected. Bob talks to open-government advocate Steve Aftergood about the media's complicity in fear-mongering.