[EdLake]

"Silica prevents the anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize."

There's nothing wrong with that sentence. It's totally true. Silica DOES help prevent anthrax from absorbing moisture and aggregating, which DOES help make anthrax easier to aerosolize.

Mullick is stating a fact about anthrax in general. She didn't say, "The anthrax was put into the powder to keep the anthrax from aggregating." She's confirming that she was MAKING AN ASSUMPTION by making a general statment and implying it was true for the attack anthrax.

Ed

[TrebleRebel]

She's confirming that she was MAKING AN ASSUMPTION by making a general statment and implying it was true for the attack anthrax.

I see, so instead of:

"This was a key component," Mullick said. "Silica prevents the anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize.

You are now seeing:

"This was a key component," Mullick said. "Silica in general prevents anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize. But not here. Although present, it had nothing to do with aerosolization in this case."

Can I have some of these psychedelic drugs you are obviously taking?

[TrebleRebel]

I suppose the drugs you are taking will also help reconcile your statement "She's confirming that she was MAKING AN ASSUMPTION by making a general statment and implying it was true for the attack anthrax." with the first two sentences of the AFIP report? :



When US Army investigators at Ft Detrick, Md, examined anthrax found in a letter sent to Sen. Thomas Daschle last fall, they discovered that the highly refined spores floated in the air, making them much easier for potential victims to inhale. What made this anthrax so easily aerosolized?