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sharp_stick

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1. The Hot Zone

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 01:51 PM

Nov 2014

was very dramatic and there was a lot of poetic licence taken throughout.

I was doing an undergraduate research project at the time in an infectious disease faculty and there was a lot of discussion over the more florid passages. There were people saying the whole book should be dumped and others who thought the amount of actual science was strong enough that it had a place.

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