Posted on 04/13/2008 8:20:52 AM PDT by ZacandPook
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In a 1992 article that was not published in an academic journal, Dr. Meryl Nass, a close associate of Hatfill-nemesis Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, cited "journalist Jeremy Brick hill" [sic], who has insisted that anonymous military contractors told him that the outbreak was a military attack by the multiracial Selous Scouts. The credibility of Brickhill, a self-described "antiapartheid activist" who claims to have fought on the side of the black rebels, is questionable. This reporter has not been able to find any record of massive, biowarfare-induced, cutaneous anthrax infections anywhere. ------"Scientist With Rhodesian Past Still Center of Media Crosshairs,"http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=267517
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To: mrustow; Shermy
The real interesting part is that Meryl Nass wrote her advocacy paper in 1992:
http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/zimbabwe.html*
Let's look at the "Acknowledgments" section: "Thanks to........ Barbara Rosenberg, Ph.D........ for contacts and encouragement."In light of this it's always been my bet that as soon as Rosenberg heard the name "Hatfill" and "Zimbabwe" in the same sentence after the 2001 anthrax attacks, she had her man. 31 posted on 09/05/2003 5:20 AM PDT by Badabing Badaboom
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Dr. Meryl Nass...a holistic medicine doc who claims to be a bioweapons expert. She came up with the claim that a Rhodesian cutaneous anthrax outbreak was weaponized, a claim evidently close to Rosenberg's heart.
She is a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a leftwing group which along with Voices in the Wilderness, helped sanctions-bust in Iraq.
"... In 1993, I went to Cuba as a consultant to the Cuban Ministry of Health. ..." ~ Meryl Nass, MD.- Red Flags Weekly
Maine Doctor Leads National Campaign Against Anthrax Vaccinations
... What has Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist from Freeport, done to cause such a swirl of ... there was an epidemic of 50,000 cases of blindness in Cuba, which the ... www.commondreams.org/headlines/031100-03.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
She joined a pretentiously named empty shell front group composed of names that claim to be "honorary" SEALs and so on -- meaningless crap derived from their effort to get gov bucks for "Gulf War Syndrome" and the like:
Joined IMM 2001. The Institute for Molecular Medicine 16371 Gothard Street H Huntington Beach, California 92647-3652, USA
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Who is IMM?
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The Institute for Molecular Medicine
IMM is formally affiliated with: Contaminated Veterans of America, Albuquerque, NM; Center for Complex Infectious Diseases, Rosemead, CA ... www.immed.org/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
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IMM is formally affiliated with: James Mobb Clinics of Harare, Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe of course is stripped and impoverished Marxist Mugabe's turf now.
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She wouldn’t say she was a bioweapons expert. She’d say she was expert on reactions to vaccines. She is immensely likable IMO. Non-dogmatic on the Hatfill issues even if she had her opinion. She took down a RedFlags article when it proved unreliable. She never had met Dr. Hatfill. She called me once to excitedly pass on the rumored news about the cabin in the woods once and I asked her “What state?” She didn’t know. That was my first tip that the spread of the Hatfill Theory was on shaky grounds indeed. And so while her politics might be aligned with BHR, I think she certainly was acting in good faith. Of course, one doesn’t want to go down that slippery slope between falsely accusing one of murder to falsely accusing one of genocide. But contrast Meryl with Don Foster. Meryl stood down. Don Foster didn’t. He should have withdrawn the Vanity Fair article — even after being approved, in light of what had developed. That libel suit was inevitable as was the result. Libel law views favorably the person who adapts to new information, etc.
Dr. Hatfill on the Anthrax Letter Attacks:
“I telephoned Chief Civilian Scientist Peter Jahrling at USAMRIID to try to find out what was going on. He told me that it looked like there were an awful lot of spores in the preparation he had examined for the FBI, and advised me to get our SAIC people on antiobitoics if they thought they had an exposure. No one had any idea of the actual size of the attack, how many letters were involved and whether the attack was still underway or not. I therefore made the rather unpopular decision that every SAIC employee within the area of the Capitol building was to come in, go for nasal swabbing at a nearby clinic, and start antiobiotics. I contacted the clinic, discussed what had to be done with the doctor in attendance, and supervised the process.
The eventual FBI announcement that the strain used in the letters was called the Ames strain and that Fort Detrick had been using this strain for experiments came as a surprise to me. I knew the bacteriology unit USAMRIID had been doing animal work with anthrax, but thought these involved the old Vollum 1 B used by the former U.S. offensive program. At the time I disbelieved that anyone at Fort Detrick was involved in these acts of domestic terrorism, and I maintain that opinion today.
A number of weeks later, two investigators from the FBI came by my office. The interview was cordial and short. The agents explained that polygraphs were being conducted on a wide scale in connection with the anthrax letters. They asked if I would consent to a polygraph concerning the anthrax letters. I immediately agreed and the short interview was over. A week or so later on my appointment date, I went down to the FBI Washington Field Office for the polygraph. An agent met me at the entrance and advised me, apologetically, that no one was around to administer the polygraph. I went on to work and a few days later I was telephoned with a new appointment. I went down to the Washington Field Office and this time the polygraph was administered. As I recall, this was in early January 2002. The polygraph examiner told me I had passed and that he believed that I had nothing do with the Anthrax event. I went back to work, believing any involvement in the investigation was completed. Unfortunately, I was wrong.”
Dr. Hatfill’s explanation of events continues:
“In February, I received a phone call from one Scott Shane, a reporter with the Baltimore Sun. All but accusing me of mailing the anthrax letters, Shane wanted to know precise details about a certain classified project on which I had previously worked which I was barred from discussing. I hung the phone up with him in mid sentence and immediately reported the event to my immediate supervisor as an improper solicitation of classified information. Two dates later, I received an email from a former medical school classmate advising that Shane had phoned him and accused me of mailing the anthrax letters and also starting the anthrax outbreak in Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia twenty years before. *** Later I telephoned the Baltimore Sun and left a message for the eidtor that Scott Shane’s accusations had cost me my job.”
[Thought question: Would SAIC have kept him on if they knew about the forged PhD certificate submitted to NIH?]
“On leaving SAIC, I secured a position with Louisiana State University to work with a consortium of universities on important federally funded probes for biological defense. I was constantly being called back to SAIC to assist with projects I had started, as to well as to help with new projects. SAIC eventually undertook to contract for my continued services through Louisiana State University, a process that continues today. I continued to work with SAIC because of the close association I had with my superb team there and my desire to help as requested in the completion of important contracts. I consider several of the projects in question to be of national importance for the defense of my country.”
“At the end of February 2002, a year after my application for clearance had been aborted by the termination of the contract for which I had sought it, I was surprised to receive a letter from the CIA advising that my application had been turned down due to my involvement with Zimbabwean authorities twenty years earlier. I did not need and was not at the time seeking CIA clearance. I was under the impression that my file had been closed pending possible re-application for clearance under a contract for which it would be needed. Since I objected to the adverse conclusions drawn from my time in Africa, however, I appealed the negative determination. My appeal is pending at this time. None of this affected any of my SAIC work in the slightest way.”
[Thought question: Would CIA have granted him a security clearance if they knew about the forged PhD certificate submitted to NIH?]
“In June 2002, one Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a self-proclaimed biological weapons expert whom I do not know, with whom I have never corresponded, and to my knowledge is ignorant of my work and background except in the broadest of terms, saw fit to denounce me as a prime suspect in the anthrax letters in meetings with Senate staffers involved in the anthrax inquiry. ***”
[Thought question: Would Dr. Hatfill gotten the job wearing a moon suit injecting ebola virus into guinea pigs at Ft. Detrick if it was known he had forged a PhD certificate in seeking to work at NIH? Would he have gotten the earlier research fellowship in 1996 at NIH? Who is at moral fault in setting down this path? Barbara Hatch Rosenberg or Steve Hatfill? Who is the patriot? Didn’t his fraud in obtaining the original job relating to ebola research make him worthy of suspicion given the high level of trust needed before allowing someone access to ebola, such as he came to have at Ft. Detrick? How can Dr. Hatfill ultimately expect to be persuasive if his greatest expression of contrition is Mr. Connolly’s remarks about puffery on a resume or Dr. Hatfill’s private comment at the deposition that he doesn’t know what he was thinking.
Dr. Hatfill writes of his earlier history at NIH and USAMRIID
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
In 1996 I received a research fellowship at the National Institutes for Health.”
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“I made appropriate arrangements to transfer loaded tissue bioreactors from NIH to Fort Detrick. There they were taken into the high containment facility and equipments safely performed by resident USAMRIID scientists, not including myself. As this work was progressing, I became increasingly aware of the potential health risk caused by the release of a virulent virus in a densely populated area. The more I learned about biological warfare, the more alarmed I became about this potential threat. Several anthrax hoaxes had by then been described in the media, with some legislation being passed by Congress (Nunn-Lugar=Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996) to assist in the training of first responders (i.e., fire and police) to manage potential terrorist attacks similar to the sarin nerve agent attack by Japanese terrorists on the Tokyo subway. I gave a few public lectures on the subject including one to the George Washington University Terrorist Group, showing how easy it would be for a terrorist to culture infectious disease organisms using only low technology methods dating back from the 1800’s. I also began to assist in the development of the Domestic Preparedness First Responder Training Course being developed by Science Applicatioons International Corporation (”SAIC”). In August of 1997, I assisted a friend of mine who was a reporter for the Washington Times, write a small article on the subject. It was published on August 11, 1997.
USAMRIID, Fort Detrick
In 1997, I was offered a National Reserach Council position at USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick. My task was to refine the tissue culture system so as to compare Ebola infection in human and animal tissues and (as a hematologist) to dissect the bleeding disorder which the disease caused in the Ebola animal models of human disease.
The work at USAMRIID was exciting but dangerous. It was difficult to work with the tissue culture system an the Ebola virus in the space suit, and even more difficult to work with the small mice and guinea pigs. The guinea pigs were the worst because they were large enough to be difficult to hold still while injecting with the virus. One careless mistake or bit of inattention and a simple need stick injury would be translated into a slow and painful death from a disease for which there was no vaccine and no cure. It had happened before with other viral agents and researchers in other centers. I believe that researchers in this field are unsung heroes.
I gave a final public lecture on the potential threat of biological terrorism shortly after I started work at USAMRIID. The next day I was called into the Commander’s office and told no longer to speak publicly without official permission. The hypothetical attack in my talk had been on the White House, and the Secret Service was upset. The Commander was a man I greatly respected, as well as my boss, and his objection was more than sufficient to end my brief tour on the public lecture circuit discussing potential biological terrorism scenarios without first obtaining official permission from USAMRIID.
Comment:
But once again: If he had not forged the PhD certificate, would he have had the NIH job and job at USAMRIID?
Did Dr. Hatfill really graduate from medical school in 1984, Ed?
Were his letters of recommendation for the NIH job also forged?
While I agree that there is no evidence he is guilty of the anthrax crimes, and I think the overwhelming documentary and other evidence shows that US-based supporters of Al Qaeda are responsible, did the media and USG treat him unfairly? Or was the intense interest in him motivated, in part, of knowing that he is not above reckless fraud and deceit involving access to the dangerous pathogen ebola?
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hatfill.pdf
Ed, this resume you have on your webpage. Where did he submit this? Or where was it obtained?
STEVEN JAY HATFILL M.D., Ph.D.
OFFICES
United States Army Medical Research Institute for
Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
Virology Division
Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD
21702-5011
Telephone: (redacted)
Fax: (redacted)
National Institutes of Health
National Institute for Child Health/Development
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
Building 10, Room 10D14
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD. 20892-1855
Telephone: (redacted)
Fax : (redacted)
24 hour Pager: (redacted)
PERSONAL DATA
American Citizenship
Birth Date: (redacted) 1953, St. Louis MO.
Social Security No. (redacted)
Medical License No. RSA-MP28117 SAMDC
SECRET Security Clearance
I. EDUCATION
MEDICAL DEGREES:
M.Med / Board Certification in Hematopathology (June 1993)
Three-year residency/specialist training in blood and bone marrow disorders at the University of
Stellenbosch, RSA. Clinical rotations through coagulation/homeostasis, hemolytic and platelet
disorders, immunohematology and blood transfusion medicine, hematology-oncology and the bone
marrow transplantation unit (Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town). Pathology rotations through
forensic, hematology, and chemical pathology / toxicology.
Medical Degree (April 1984)
Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine, Salisbury, Rhodesia. LRCS,. Includes; all basic medical
sciences and clinical studentships (Andrew Fleming Teaching Hospital). Internship (rotating)-at
the Paul Kruger Hospital (RSA). Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (USA)-
Certificate No. 376-621-9.
GRADUATE DEGREES:
Ph.D. Thesis in Molecular Cell Biology (August 1994)
Completed by experimental work, thesis, Rhodes University, Department of Biochemistry and
Microbiology. External Thesis Examiners- Argonne National Laboratory (USA) and NASA
Center for Special Studies, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (USA). Thesis demonstrated
mitochondrial DNA topology changes in high LET radiation-induced MDS and leukemia, as a
possible basis for biological dosimetry.
In reporting an extensive investigation, the Guardian describes a much greater fraud in connection with his credentials and references etc. than I’ve touched on. Does he have an alibi on the night of mailing? He trained personnel at the Egyptian embassy. Was an evaluator for TopOff. It is not conceivable that the FBI would not have aggressively investigated him.
“Walter Mitty life of anthrax terror suspect,” Guardian, June 1, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/01/anthrax.usa1
Ed defends Hatfill thusly:
“His resume has been picked apart and discrepancies have been found - discrepancies which he apparently corrected in later resumes. Okay. If everyone who stretched the truth a bit on a professional resume were put in prison, we’d all be there.”
“Discrepancies he apparently corrected in later resumes?” Ed, do you have a later resume from the time of the mailings or before that avoids the fraudulent claim of having a PhD? Do you consider forging a PhD certificate a “discrepancy”?
Obviously, it had to be Hatfill. He was a bitter, small-town typical white person
Ed, his 1999 resume claims he knows former BG (anthrax simulant) production methods. So he apparently disagrees with your assessment that he does not know such methods.
Former Army scientist forged Ph.D. certificate, school says
Forgery is kind of intrigue in Hatfill’s past attracting interest in anthrax case
By Scott Shane | Sun Staff
October 9, 2002
http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.hatfill09oct09,0,5372526.story
His 1999 resume claims “working knowledge ... of wet and dry BW [biological warfare] agents, large-scale production of bacterial, rickettsial, and viral BW pathogens and toxins, stabilizers and other additives, former BG [Bacillus globigii] simulant production methods.”
Shane reports:
“Such knowledge would be quite relevant to the preparation of the dry anthrax powder in the envelopes. Bacillus globigii is a nontoxic relative of the anthrax bacterium and is often used as an anthrax simulant. Anyone who knows how to grow Bacillus globigii and turn it into a simulant powder could do the same with anthrax, scientists say.”
She'd just describe herself as "a national expert in the field of anthrax and biological warfare." Or at least look innocently on while someone did it for her.
This is from the IMM website, something I snagged years ago. Presumably it was she who submitted her own questionable biography, much as the former Ambassador Joe Wilson submitted his "Valerie Plame" bio to Who's Who in that other ongoing media soap opera. Come to think of it, that bio, like those of Nass's friends at IMM, also included unneccessary and goofy "honorary" military ranks. At least Nass's didn't :
Meryl Nass, M.D. Dr. Nass is in private practice in Freeport, Maine and on the medical staff of Parkview Hospital, Brunswick, ME. She received her B.S. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974) and her M.D. from the University of Missippi Medical School (1980). She specializes in the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Gulf War Illnesses. Dr. Nass has published over 20 articles in medical and scientific journals. She is a national expert in the field of anthrax and biological warfare. She was the first scientist to realize that Zimbabwe's anthrax epidemic of 1978-80 was not a natural event, and proved it in 1992. As a consultant to Cuba's Ministry of Health, she correctly diagnosed the cause of a neuropathy epidemic affecting 50,000 Cubans. She has developed a model for evaluating epidemics to determine the likelihood that they are due to bioterrorism. She was the first researcher to point out the relationship between anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Illnesses, and has been very active in identifying the role of this vaccine in a variety of chronic medical illnesses. Dr. Nass is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Institute for Molecular Medicine.
Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap (ed.)
Publisher : Ocean Press
Published : 2003
Copyright : Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 2003
ISBN : PB 1-876175-64-8
Publishers Write-Up
The editors of this book, Ellen Ray and William Schaap, are two prominent U.S. authorities on the CIA. This well-documented book backgrounds several cases of development and use by the United States of chemical-biological warfare, from Agent Orange in Vietnam to the Gulf War syndrome of the 1990s.
In their introduction, the editors offer an up-to-the-minute analysis of current events concerning the issue of biochemical weapons and the "war on terror."
While Washington opts for 'first strikes' against Iraq and other nations declared to be part of the 'Axis of Evil' for stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, this book proves that the United States itself has been the most notorious practitioner of chemical and biological warfare since blankets laced with smallpox were given to Native Americans 200 years ago.
This well-documented book backgrounds numerous cases of the development and use of chemical-biological warfare by the United States, including anthrax, Agent Orange, nerve gas, dioxin, and depleted uranium. Such action has endangered US citizens and armed forces personnel as well as 'target populations', who will continue to suffer if Washington's belligerence remains unchecked.
Among the contributors are:
Robert Lederer (WBAI/Pacifica Radio journalist)
Tod Ensign (director of Citizen Soldier and veterans' rights advocate)
Dr. Meryl Nass (expert on anthrax and biological warfare who has testified several times to U.S. Congress). -------http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/RayEllen/Bioterror/BioterrorReview.htm.
If I remember correctly, Nass is in some way connected to Mark Zaid, a lawyer also involved in the Haditha case and a group called EPIC. I think it was a mutual interest in blocking the anthrax vaccine.
2003 : (BOOKDEALS—— NASS CITED AS CONTRIBUTOR TO BOOK BY ELLEN RAY {See MICHAEL RATNER} & SCHAAP )
Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap (ed.)
Publisher : Ocean Press
Published : 2003
Copyright : Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 2003
ISBN : PB 1-876175-64-8
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ALSO SEE :
Amazon.com: Ellen Ray: Books
“Guantanamo: What the World Should Know,” by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray ... “Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism,” by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap ...
www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ellen%20Ray&page=1 - 137k - Cached - Similar pages
Piasa,
That book is a great find. And, yes, I guess she is holding herself out as an expert in the field of biological weapons, and my point is valid only to the extent she would agree she is not an expert on methods of weaponization or making powders. Her research in the Zimbabwe article was of a historical nature.
The best authority on Zimbabwe is the one you won’t be able to get access to — the special collections person at the GMU Center for Biodefense says it won’t be hitting the shelf any time soon. It is a 660 page PhD thesis published in 2006 written by Dr. Hatfill’s former colleage A. Cross, the former SAIC colleague who allegedly passed on a comment by Dr. Hatfill re Maryland ponds. See Seikaly depo. Perhaps he was the one at a SAIC meeting that Dr. Hatfill pissed off. Essentially it is on the same subject as Meryl’s 1992 article. Only the abstract is available at ProQuest Dissertations. Mr. Cross’ mentor was, I believe, Dr. Kenneth Alibek (but I’m not 100% confident of my recollection). After SAIC, Mr. Cross was hired by the FBI as an analyst. I believe he got his PhD attending night classes, while he was working for the FBI (but I’m not sure). Dr. Ken Alibek told me last week that he knows who the FBI suspects but he can’t tell me, but that it will eventually come out — it just intensifies the conundrum, to borrow Justin R’s apt phrase. Who is the “leading anthrax scientist” who could make the powder? If Connolly took the case because he was sure Hatfill couldn’t make the powder because it was too sophisticated, given Dr. H’s friendship with William Patrick, is any sophistication of the powder truly exculpatory? Or is it inculpatory? Might he not have learned a few tricks from WP? (see his 1999 resume saying he knew how to make anthrax simulant).
But who would the USAMRIID deputy commander be from the FoxNews report? I emailed Dr. Spertzel to ask his view but never heard back. The FoxNews report, to be sure, says that the FBI no longer suspects Dr. Hatfill. And the judge, to be sure, said there was no scintilla of evidence suggesting his involvement. (But truth be told, his guilt or innocence is not being litigated — and if you lift the robe, there is just a lawyer aided by a graduate one year out of law school who is overwhelmed by numerous matters.)
So all we know for sure is that Ed is mistaken in what he says about Dr. Hatfill re ability to make an anthrax simulant and the magnitude of lies he told in gaining access to dangerous pathogens. His fraud in gaining his jobs destroy his claim for damages. His distress was of his own making.
Fortunately for Dr. Hatfill it turns out that the documentary and other evidence clearly establishes that US-based supporters of the salafist-jihadis are responsible for mailing the anthrax. But I think that upon this data dump in federal district court, it seems that both the media and USG acted reasonably and within their proper roles. With the exception of the lead prosecutor in the DC US Attorney’s Office. Given he is so senior, it would seem that liability may be imputed to the DOJ under Section 1983 (the civil rights claim) if he was acting within the scope of his work duties. Was he?
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
It was more than a happy coincidence for Ayman Zawahiri and Mohammed Islambouli that an active supporter of the Taliban and supporter of jihad was a US biodefense insider. Microbiologist Al-Timimi worked in the same building as famed Russian bioweapons scientist Ken Alibek and former USAMRIID Deputy Commander and Acting Commander Charles Bailey, who would come to publish a lot of research with the “Ames strain” of anthrax. Al-Timimi was a current associate and former student of Bin Laden’s spiritual advisor, dissident Saudi Sheik al-Hawali. He would speak along with the blind sheik’s son at charity conferences — the blind sheik’s son served on Al Qaeda’s WMD committee. Al-Timimi’s mentor Bilal Philips was known for recruiting members of the military to jihad. The first week after 9/11, FBI agents questioned Ali Al-Timimi, a microbiology graduate student in a program jointly run by George Mason University and the American Type Culture Collection (”ATCC”). Ali, according to his lawyer, had been questioned by an FBI agent and Secret Service agent in 1994 after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He had a high security clearance for work for the Navy and years earlier for two months had worked for the White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card when he was Secretary of Transportation. As time off from his university studies permitted, Ali was an active speaker with a charity Islamic Assembly of North America.
Well It’s clear that Patrick and Alibek have made dry powders - after all that was their speciality. But Meselson has never made a dry powder in his life - and he is on record saying the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you claim he said - namely that making dry powders is VERY DIFFICULT.
Maybe you can ask him if his quote below is yet again some kind of error by the reporter.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.2/osullbio.html
“People who say that you can make these weapons in your kitchen just don’t understand what’s involved,” says Meselson.
“If anthrax is stirred incorrectly it may clump,” notes Meselson, “and if the cells clump you can’t make an aerosol weapon. They stick together like glue. Who would have thought of that? And I imagine that there are hundreds of little wrinkles like that. All the nonsense about ease of production ignores these facts.”
“People who say that you can make these weapons in your kitchen just don’t understand what’s involved,”
You endlessly try to make disagreements where there are no disagreements.
“If anthrax is stirred incorrectly it may clump,”
Absolutely true. And if you stir the anthrax CORRECTLY, it does NOT clump. In other words, it's all a matter of knowing how.
As with most things, it's "difficult" if you don't know how to do it, but it's easy if you know how to do it.
How can that be so difficult for you to understand? You've made this same bizarre argument DOZENS of times!
Is Hatfill an “expert microbiologist”?
Has Hatfill ever made a dry powder?
Is Meselson an “expert microbiologist”?
Has Meselson ever made a dry powder? Or is he just saying that although he doesn’t know how to make a dry powder, if he DID know then it would be easy?
By the way Ed, I wonder if you can explain the statement below that the powder was found to contain a chemical additive - after MONTHS OF INTENSIVE LABORATORY ANALYSIS? Was this still the “early panicky days” as you like to spin it? Can you explain why, 5 years later, Beecher stated there were NO ADDITVES whatsover?
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/anthraxpowdernotroutine.html
Extensive lab tests of the anthrax powder have revealed new details about how the powder was made, including the identity of a chemical used to coat the trillions of microscopic spores to keep them from clumping together. Sources close to the investigation declined to name the chemical but said its presence was something of a surprise.
The powder’s formulation “was not routine,” said one law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Somebody had to have special knowledge and experience to do this,” the official said.
The finding, one of several emerging from months of intensive laboratory analyses of anthrax spores mailed to Senate offices in October, appears to further deepen the mystery of who is behind the worst act of biological terrorism in U.S. history.
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