1. The Sterne preparations WERE prepared shortly before they began their project. They were not the old stuff like the BG preparations. You were right about that.
2. The email also says that the were not in a position to know any details about the attack anthrax and just accepted what was in the media as being reasonable. I was right about that.
3. The person who wrote me says I shouldn't attribute anything in the article to any specific individual. So, he probably won't let me quote him. That means that this information from the email should be considered to be from everyone who participated in writing the article.
I don’t know who you are corresponding with - but I have emails I’m also not allowed to quote from. But I can tell you that everyone in the N American aerosol BW community does not credit Beecher’s paper - they believe Beecher’s paper “slipped through the process” and the blame is on the reviewers. They don not believe it is possible to make a preparation based on only raw spores that could ever behave the way the Daschle powder was shown to behave by scientific study in the Hart Building (JAMA study).
Of course, Beecher did not respond to the rebuttal letter to provide his data, and that is basically the end of the matter.