Agree with that. Even if the anthrax was produced in a US BW lab that would undermine Meselson's beliefs that his treaty is adhered to. Thus it's in his interests to deny that it was military grade anthrax. The facts are still the facts. AFIP reported that silica was used to enable aerosolization. Meselson refuses to aknowledge the existence of this report. His agenda is clear. He spoofed the author of the C&E News article, Lois Embers, claiming that AFIP published a spectrum of only a silicon peak. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8449gov1.html Sometimes scientists misspoke as well, as was the case with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. AFIP studied the anthrax powder from the Daschle letter using energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, and a top AFIP scientist, Florabell G. Mullick, reported the presence of silica in an AFIP newsletter. Yet, the spectrum AFIP released shows a peak for the element silicon, not silicon dioxide (silica). This is completely untrue. AFIP published a spectrum of silicon dioxide (silica) - not silicon. Lois Embers was too lazy to check - she simply beleived Meselson. She could have checked right here on FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/841229/posts
Yes indeed, sir. I’ll take a good old fashioned, unbiased, well constructed X-Ray spectrometer over a couple of shady, deceptive Russophiles every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.