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However, in the same year, Alibek was also interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a documentary titled “Red Lies” [3]. [...] The “Red Lies” documentary did provide details of the additives, stating “In the years since the Sverdlovsk accident, Alibek and a research team had taken the Soviet military’s anthrax and made it even more deadly. He developed a process to take ground up anthrax spores and coat each particle in plastic and resin. It kept the anthrax aloft four times longer, increasing its ability to infect people.”

The CBC story is WRONG. The reporter MISUNDERSTOOD. The Alibek process did NOT coat spores with resin OR silica. I specifically discussed this with Mr. Alibek, although I didn't realize at the time that it was the subject of a controversy.

The large balls of resin were MIXED with tiny particles of silica and anthrax spores in a way that helped disperse the weapon over a LARGER area. The idea that the resin was some kind of glue to hold the silica to the spores is just plain STUPID.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

The CBC story is WRONG. The reporter MISUNDERSTOOD. The Alibek process did NOT coat spores with resin OR silica. I specifically discussed this with Mr. Alibek, although I didn't realize at the time that it was the subject of a controversy.

A misundertanding - that's all it was ! An itsy bitsy, teensy weensy misundertanding.
Was that just like the - (laughing)"There is no principle to coatings" misunderstanding?

LOL. It's hilarious to watch you open your playbook and come out with your latest BS.

I notive you conveniently ignored being proven wrong once again when I pointed out that the lead Dugway author of the CDC/Dugway paper has been making coated simulants for years. He has supplied just about every lab in the US with them:

“And what if that “expert” has probably never actually made weaponized anthrax or anthrax simulants? The main author of the Aerosol Science article probably hasn’t. He got the simulants from scientists at Dugway.”

Whilst I’m not going to waste time correcting the numerous science mistakes you have made in the last few dozen posts I will point out that the new paper is a joint Dugway/CDC study.

The lead author from Dugway, Lloyd Larsen, has been Dugway’s top simulant specialist for years. He’s been making silica coated simulants for years - and he made silica coated Bacillus Anthracis especially for this joint study. As the authors clearly stated - this was to simulate the spores used in the 2001 attacks.