You are arguing with a religious fanatic. He believes everything Alibek says like the word of a divine entity.
It doesnn’t matter that 7 authors from the CDC and the US Army at Dugway have just published a paper where they simulated the spores used in the 2001 anthrax attack by COATING anthrax spores with silica. Not does it matter that they published SEM pictures of BG spores made 40 years ago as biowarfare simulants - all COATED with silica. Nor does it matter that the authors REPEATEDLY state throughout the article that aerosol enabling spores for biowarfare are COATED with silica.
If Alibek says (especially when he’s laughing) that there’s no principle to coating then that means coatings have no utility in weapons. Ed obviously knows better than everyone - why do you think he’s sold so many books?
He believes everything Alibek says like the word of a divine entity.
ZacandPook writes (in message #258):
To clarify Ken’s theory, he theorizes that Jdey mailed the anthrax letters after making the martyrdom video.
TrebelRebel says I accept every word Ken Alibek says as if it were gospel. And ZacandPook says I'm not listening to Ken Alibek and should pay attention to what Alibek says.
You guys need to get your acts together. Together you might make one good clown act.
The reality is: I don't accept anyone's beliefs as gospel. I only talked with Ken Alibek because I wanted to confirm certain aspects of the SCIENCE involved in working with anthrax spores. He did that. He also told me -- even though I didn't ask -- he believed the anthrax was sent by Muslims. Am I supposed to believe that's true because he's some kind of "expert?" Or am I supposed to believe that everything he says is a lie because TrebelRebel seems to mindlessly hate him?
Ken Alibek told me that there is no principle for coating anthrax.
You guys have found an article which you claim shows that Dugway did coat anthrax with silica spores many years ago. Does that mean there's a "principle" for it?
The images show the whole thing is NUTS. The images in the book "Microbial Forensics" show the same thing --- the idea is NUTS.
The first of these new images show what appears to be a spore coated with a kazillion tiny particles of silica. And ZacandPook says I'm wrong in believing that that would make the spore less effective as a bioweapon. How can it not? What possible purpose can it serve to coat a spore that way? It makes the spore heavier, it reduces the ability of the spore to germinate, and there is NO OFFSETTING BENEFIT.
The second image you're showing us appears to be a CLUMP of spores fused together by some process of coating spores with silica. Is creating CLUMPS of spores suppose to be some kind of technological breakthrough? The scale indicates the CLUMP is less than 5 microns across, but the scale also indicates that the spores are somewhat smaller than typical anthrax spores.
You show these images and pick sentences out of context in an attempt to prove something. All you are proving is that you have to take things out of context to make anything fit your screwball beliefs.