Your wild-eyed ranter is probably not the guy to be scared of: it's the calm, businesslike, conservative guy with the great big interconnected set of labs funded by the Pentagon under a black box clause, who spends his time quietly administering a bunch of bland-looking projects. The guy whose projects always seem to involve defense against bizarre, lethal, and highly unusual, or unlikely, or unheard-of threats.

I remember reading a comment by someone or other that he could always tell when an epidemiology paper had originated in Fort Deitrick (sp?) because the diseases used vectors that those diseases rarely or never used in nature. "Leprosy spread on bird feathers? Yep, that's the biowarfare guys...."