Computer consultants with an Ebola FAQ?!?!?

[John Levin]

In article <3pfuk8$40fk at news.doit.wisc.edu>, sspencer at rhino.bocklabs.wisc.edu 
says...

>Fellow scientists,
>
>I am deeply disturbed by David Ornstein's (davido at apocalypse.org) misuse of
>the Net and of a natural disaster such as the Ebola outbreak in Zaire 
>to increase his Internet visibility and thus increase business
>for his company. His opportunism is not at all appropriate
>in this situation, and I believe he has gone too far, now that
>he has appointed himself as the Ebola FAQ maintainer.

[Suggestion for blacklisting omitted, advertisement of own site omitted]

I've looked at his site, I've looked at your site, neither are the last word in 
information, nor are the CDC or WHO sites. If you want to compile an FAQ, please do 
so by all means. Useful web information has been very hard to obtain. Ornstein's 
site is not blatently commercial. I don't understand your outrage.

May I also suggest that there are really two disciplines involved here: virology 
and epidemiology. Are virologists qualified to offer opinions on the likely spread 
of something like Ebola through human populations?