TrebleRebel,
To my ear, Omutninsk sounds like a gag by the late comedian Danny Kaye where he says it while he sneezes. But Debra wrote the book. Literally. I’m going to have to send you her 2006 thesis “Lessons learned from the former Soviet biological warfare program” or have her send a copy if we are going to be on the same page — or the same 240 pages with 3 pages of bibliographic references. She’s learned a lot from the esteemed faculty member Peter L, who worked at the DOD while he taught at GMU, so perhaps you can glean whether the DOD credits your theory. (We know Ken doesn’t — he thinks that the concept of a “coating” makes no sense.) See transcript of his explanation provided by Mr. Lake.
On Sverdlosk, unclassified DIA documents show that the intelligence community met with Dr. Meselson at his request and there was a consensus of the representatives from the various agencies that was reached after he left the room that they felt he wasn’t asking the Russians the hard questions. So while we have someone so steeped in learning, let’s ask her the hard questions. Communication is a prerequisite to understanding.
BTW, if ever it should turn out that Ken has obfuscated how to weaponize anthrax, that’s a good thing, right? That’s what he’s supposed to do, right? The gaps left to the knowledge in the GMU patents (where one is referred to the knowledge of those practiced in the art) are broad. It’s important to keep them so.