Weaponized Ticks

[isucyfan]

I just finished a book called "Bitten", by Kris Newby, that presents a very compelling case that Lyme disease was created and caused by the U.S. government for biological warfare during the Cold War. Just today, I see this:

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks

I am about the furthest away as anyone from being a "tin foil hat" guy, but this made me think. If they were developing this 60 years ago, what horrors do they have in a lab today? Fascinating, but frightening. Highly recommend the book if anyone is interested.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Wouldn't be the worst thing they've done.

 

[cyclonewino]

https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm

 

[jbhtexas]

I speculate that Lyme disease was probably brought to Earth by the aliens that are being discussed in the other thread...

 

[isucyfan]

https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.htm

Yeah, maybe created was the wrong word in my original post, but the book uncovers how they spread it, possibly by an accidental release. It's also possible that the Soviets stole from the lab and unleashed it to cause the original outbreak.

 

[Walden4Prez]

I just finished a book called "Bitten", by Kris Newby, that presents a very compelling case that Lyme disease was created and caused by the U.S. government for biological warfare during the Cold War. Just today, I see this:

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks

I am about the furthest away as anyone from being a "tin foil hat" guy, but this made me think. If they were developing this 60 years ago, what horrors do they have in a lab today? Fascinating, but frightening. Highly recommend the book if anyone is interested.

I find it hilarious that people think that you have to be crazy to question the government. As someone said above, weaponized bugs is nothing.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

hell yeah. hopefully they can give everyone the red meat allergy so we can convert are fields back to pararies

 

[mj4cy]

Reminds me of the Hunger Games.

 

[Knownothing]

Jesse Ventura did a show where he investigated stuff that was conspiracy theory type stuff. This and a few other insects were on the list of things. Ill try and find it.

 

[Cyclonepride]

https://allthatsinteresting.com/human-experiments

 

[ArgentCy]

Here is a new newsweek article. Apparently this has made it far enough for Congress to slip a demand into some recent legislation.

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-weaponized-ticks-lyme-disease-investigation-1449737

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives quietly passed a bill requiring the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct a review into whether the Pentagon experimented with ticks and other blood-sucking insects for use as biological weapons between 1950 and 1975.

 

[besserheimerphat]

See, I have no doubt that the government may have tried things like weaponizing blood sucking insects. I mean, the whole point of the DoD is to keep us on the cutting edge of technology to protect the country from threats. To do that, you have to play with some weird ideas. Where conspiracy theorists lose me is the idea that the government suddenly decides to turn these things loose on its own citizens. An escaped tick(s) is certainly feasible, but the idea that infected ticks were intentionally released by a complicit government institution is pretty far fetched. Even if one lab worker took a pocketful of ticks home to release in the city park, that's not "the government knowingly releasing weaponized insects on the citizenry."

 

[BoxsterCy]

 

[isucyfan]

See, I have no doubt that the government may have tried things like weaponizing blood sucking insects. I mean, the whole point of the DoD is to keep us on the cutting edge of technology to protect the country from threats. To do that, you have to play with some weird ideas. Where conspiracy theorists lose me is the idea that the government suddenly decides to turn these things loose on its own citizens. An escaped tick(s) is certainly feasible, but the idea that infected ticks were intentionally released by a complicit government institution is pretty far fetched. Even if one lab worker took a pocketful of ticks home to release in the city park, that's not "the government knowingly releasing weaponized insects on the citizenry."

In the book, it talked about the possibility that the Russians stole samples from the lab and then released them on the US.