[VOA]

The current attacks suggest "roomfuls of equipment, specialties in aerosol
physics and lots of testing," Zelicoff said.

No, it couldn't be that three or four talented microbiologists, biochemical
engineers, and other former academics entranced by Osama could have possibly "thought outside
the box" and came up with a break-through.
Totally impossible.

I just love the doctrinaire tone of some PhDs.
"Well, we have lots of degrees and can barely do the job, therefore, someone else
without our credentials couldn't possibly do it."

This is the kind of thinking we heard from US military planners before the Japanese
Naval aviators suprised them with the Long Lance torpedo at Pearl Harbor.
(the gospel to that point was that a torpedo couldn't operate well in such shallow waters,
if I understand correctly)

[Free Vulcan]

As my uncle says, 'PhD stands for Piled High & Deep.'

[woofie]

No, it couldn't be that three or four talented microbiologists, biochemical engineers, and other former academics entranced by Osama could have possibly "thought outside the box" and came up with a break-through. Totally impossible. I just love the doctrinaire tone of some PhDs. "Well, we have lots of degrees and can barely do the job, therefore, someone else without our credentials couldn't possibly do it." This is the kind of thinking we heard from US military planners before the Japanese Naval aviators suprised them with the Long Lance torpedo at Pearl Harbor. (the gospel to that point was that a torpedo couldn't operate well in such shallow waters, if I understand correctly)

All he is saying is that it would take a while to put this together in other words it is probably state sponsored

[MarkWar]

>No, it couldn't be that three or four talented microbiologists, biochemical engineers, and other former academics entranced by Osama could have possibly "thought outside the box" and came up with a break-through. Totally impossible.

I'd say this is flat out lies and manipulation from somebody.

Last week's issue of New Scientist, 20 October 2001 issue, -- a very well respected British science journal -- contained an editorial which commented on a US Defense Department study from last year in which 1.6 million dollars was spent to fund "people with only a base technical knowledge" and see if they could _culture_ and _weaponize_ an organism very similar to anthrax. Contrary to expectations, the test subjects were able to grow a large amount of the material _and_ they were able to mill it down to inhalation size...

Of course, that says nothing of this "special coating" which is supposed to on the anthrax from the east coast.

But, at this point, I'm coming very close to dismissing _everything_ I get from the mainstream media...

Mark W.