Popular Culture References
- In the game, Fort Detrick is the headquarters to the secret military organization Blackwatch, which deals with bio attacks. They are one of the enemy factions against the protagonist Alex Mercer.
- The opening sequence from the 1995 film Outbreak presents the four Biosafety Levels within the USAMRIID Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
- In "Amplification" episode 24 of season 4,of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, /wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_4) the BAU responds quickly after a serial killer releases a new strain of a deadly anthrax virus in Annapolis, Maryland that threatens the public and puts a member of the team at risk.The Unsub targeted Fort Detrick because of their rejection of his services.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)