Thank-you for recognizing that Livermore embrace the van der Waals model of spore agglomeration. Also, thank-you for pointing out that Livermore scientists also recognize that weaponized spores are highly charged with static electricity.
The Ed Lakes and Matthew Meselsons of the world have now been relegated to the dustbin of history - where they should have been many, many years ago. It’s just amazing that Meselson still seems to have credibilty even today amongst journalists who are too lazy to do a simple Google search that would reveal his gross misconduct on BW affairs dating back over the last 20 years.
At least we have Ed Lake to thank for continually publishing Meselson’s warped viewpoints. Ed, you have done a great service to the media. I thank you for that. The more you write about Meselson the more the entire world realizes what a liar he is.
Commenting on the fine powder sent Senator Daschle and Leahy, Professor Meselson said: “Only nations, probably, have figured out how to do this,” But, he adds, this means “how to do it is in the minds of people,” including former employees of weapons programs in the Soviet Union and the US.
And he said that it didn’t make much sense to have protracted debate over forensics — that was best left to the experts doing the work for the FBI.
That hardly warrants your five years of insults, regardless of the historical background. Both seem like perfectly reasonable statements and he’s barely spoken or written more than a few sentences more. As for his letter in which he joined Dr. Alibek, Dr. A, while a stand-up guy with undisputed expertise, is disqualified because of the FBI’s intense investigation into whether he obtained the access to know-how from Ken.
Moreover, it was somewhat reckless to think Professor Meselson would “lie” about not seeing silica when the same SEMS are there for the retained experts to observe.
You say it would be clearly observable and yet you are talking about a weight of 1 percent rather than 20 percent. And you’re not a microbiologist. And they didn’t see all the SEMS.
So you might have been more constructive and instead relied upon his expert opinion: “Only nations, probably, have figured out how to do this [but] how to do it is in the minds of people” and moved on.
You are demonstrating once again how you twist facts. YOU are the one who is always mentioning Professor Meselson. I generally ignore your hate-filled comments.
I only mention Meselson as being ONE OF MANY people who did not see any additives in the Daschle anthrax.