Best thing I've read on the episode:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07...iocy_outbreak/

Don't know if any of you have read his book, I doubt it was published in the U.S., but it's a heck of a polemic, well worth a weekend read:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lions-Donkey...3936286&sr=8-1