Search continues in mysterious case of missing biologist

The Memphis [TN] COMMERCIAL-APPEAL ^ | 20 NOV 2001 | Thomas Jordan

[archy]

*ping!* [ker-choo!]

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[Aggie Mama]

Yikes! BTTT

[Gracey]

ping

[tgiles]

A structural biologist would probably not be the first choice of a terrorist looking for help making weapons of mass destruction.

[Gracey]

Thanks for the input but I don't understand enough regarding types of biologists.

However, it seems to me that someone was in the car with him and made him get out - enter another vehicle. Perhaps the location would make it seem like suicide.

[archy]

A structural biologist would probably not be the first choice of a terrorist looking for help making weapons of mass destruction

Unless it was one who had worked with Visna in particular, say back around 1980-'85.

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[Askel5]

Trust this is not another loss possibly every bit as tragic for the Bloodhounds as that of Dr. Jonathan Mann and his wife, Dr. Mary Lou Clements-Mann in the Swissair crash.

[Kale]

Ive heard that guy lecture before. He is one of the best ever. Wow. That is a really strange story.

[xkaydet65]

"A structural biologist would not be first choice for a terrorist..."

Probably true, but would not a structural biologist be important to developing counter measures to bio terror. Sort of like taking an all star linebacker off the field at game time. Just a thought.

[motexva]

What does a structural biologist study?

[Askel5]

Visna? Like this sort of Visna?

[blam]

Is there any speculation that he may be involved with the anthrax envelopes/letters?

[d14truth]

Do we have another X-file to open? I pray that Dr. Wiley has not gotten in harm's way.

[archy]

Visna? Like this sort of Visna?

Well, more like this sort of Visna. Or see the article from the USDA Agricultural Research magazine:
Toward Retrovirus-Resistant Sheep; Genetically engineered sheep; ovine progressive pneumonia; visna virus; encephalitis; pneumonia; arthritis; Caird E. Rexroad; Beltsville; MD Apr17 1994

Personally, I'd be more concerned if HPAI was the choice for a bioterror weapon- it's got far more possibilities for real economic and agricultural devestation.

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[Aurelius]

Want the tinfoil hat theory* on why he might have been "disappeared"?

Suppose he had proved, once and for all, that Peter Duesberg, Karry Mullis, Mbeki, Hodgkinson, Lauritsen, Fintan Dunne, etc, and let's not forget Serge Lang, were all right; HIV is not the cause of AIDS and, possibly, AIDS is not a even a communicable disease. Billions of dollars would be at stake. People have been "disappeared" for far less.

* Too whom it may concern. I beat you to it.

[archy]

Is there any speculation that he may be involved with the anthrax envelopes/letters? In several Memphis-area drinking establishments frequented by cops and in others in which a few old-time newsmen still gather, though now doing without the company of former Pine Bluff AP bureau workhorse Les Seago. And likely in a few gathering spots near Pine Bluff, Ark, Plum Island NY, Dugway, Utah and Ft. Detrick, Maryland and other *educational and veterinary research facilities*.

[archy]

Want the tinfoil hat theory* on why he might have been "disappeared"?

Suppose he had proved, once and for all, that Peter Duesberg, Karry Mullis, Mbeki, Hodgkinson, Lauritsen, Fintan Dunne, etc, and let's not forget Serge Lang, were all right; HIV is not the cause of AIDS and, possibly, AIDS is not a even a communicable disease. Billions of dollars would be at stake. People have been "disappeared" for far less.

* Too whom it may concern. I beat you to it.

Of course, in Memphis, folks have also *been disappeared* for their shoes. Sometimes their bodies are found; sometimes not.

'Course if those Arkies from 'cross the river got ahold of him, the corpus delecti may be some local family's Thanksgiving dinner and likely will never be found. Bones, maybe.

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[Aurelius]

That is, neither communicable nor a disease in the scientific sense of the latter term. Duesberg is a leading figure in the field of microbiology (although his status has been artificially diminished and he no longer gets government scientific grants because he doesn't toe the official line). Mullis is a Nobel Prize winning microbiolist.