All I said was that I won't be going to go on any crusade to correct all the nonsense printed in the media about coatings on the spores in the Daschle anthrax powder.
That doesn't mean I'm going to stop discussing the anthrax attacks of 2001 here or anywhere else.
It means that when you make your next screwball mistake about science, I'll still be here to point it out to you.
See TrebleRebel, marketing is everything. Ed has brilliantly added a graphic that serves to remind us of a bowling ball in support of his theory. You really do, though, need to go read a book instead of belaboring what is an unsettled difference of views among scientists not in a position to know. I’m finding that there is much to learn from many people — notwithstanding that their contribution comes from a wildly different point of view or focus.
Professor Barry Kellman in his 2007 book BIOVIOLENCE provides a summary of the issues raised by the PhD excerpts above:
“The story of Ali Al-Timimi is illustrative. American-born, he received religious education in Saudi Araba and was active in the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA). Known as a spiritual leader among radical islamists, he lectured at the Center for Islamic Information and Education in Falls Church. By Spring 2002, as a computational biology doctoral student at George Mason University, he worked in a program designed to coordinate bioresearch at several universities. He was discovered by the FBI, convicted on charges of incitement to wage war against the United States, and sentenced to life in prison in 2005.”
He cites Vanguards of Conquest: The Sheik and the Bioweaponeers in support. [http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com]
Instead of correcting my scewball science mistakes here Ed, why don’t you publish your theories in a peer-reviewed science journal?
And, you never know, some day in the future some scientist might be willing to tell you that van der Waals forces don’t make anthrax spores adhere - and he might even be willing to let you use his name on your website. If, that is, he wants to end his career.