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This is the same guy that caused a fluster when he made a super dangerous modified H5N1, to the point that the government asked him not to publish. Of course, he did do it eventually.

Pretty much the definition of being a badass, he makes extremely dangerous biological weapons and cures deadly disease.

That's my school! Good time to be a badger... Also a bad time I suppose, it's 5:00am and I'm still up? Homework? What?

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Being a "badass" is something I don't exactly look for when I try to think of who should develop substances that are injected to my blood circulation.

Yeah, I'm looking for a rock star full stack virologist.

I think you can pouch someone from the broctor culture.

So, you mean Pardis Sabeti [0], Ebola researcher and lead singer of Thousand Days [1] [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardis_Sabeti

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahibadi/sets/72157605798942179

[2] http://www.thousanddays.com/

Well goddamn, you found one.

There's a recent profile on her in the New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/ebola-wars

You, sir, just made my day.

Yes, of course that's who I meant.

On the other hand this is exactly the kind of people you wish for when something like the 1918 flu pandemic will happen again.

Sounds like an ideal candidate to be the next Bond villain.

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