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Cripes.

Diphenylamine is the reagent in the "Paraffin" tests. Regardless of whether paraffin was used or not, diphenylamine has been discredited as a reagent due to a lack of specificity.

The Serbs and Byelorussians used diphenylamine in their testing of the Racak victims.

Ergo, their GSR testing of the Racak victims is only as good as diphenylamine, which has been discredited as a reagent.

Ergo, statements eminating from the Serb and Byelorussian team about 37 of 40 of the Racak victims having GSR on their hands/arms are only as credible as their testing, which used diphenylamine, which has been discredited as a reagent.

Should I use larger letters or something?

Diphyenylamine is only "discredited" to the extent that there is a capacity for it to give false positives. This capacity can be measured. If it gives false positives in say, 30% of cases before it, then yes, it would be useless in a criminal trial of a particular person (as it was being used prior to the 1960's). But it would not be useless in a case where over 90% of a group of people test positive. I mean, roll a die 40 times and see if 37 of the rolls are a 1 or a 2. If they are, then somethings seriously wrong with your die. If you're still having trouble with what I'm saying, then buy a good book on statistics to help you out.

And if anyone here deserves to be writing in bigger letters, it's me, since I've answered every point you've brought up, whereas you've picked and chosen which ones of mine you think you're able to answer. And if at any point you should decide to go back and answer any of those points, here's another one to ponder:

What would you make of a poster who a) is virtually the only one on an entire forum who's pushing a particular interpretation of events, and b) throws an insult in every post, no matter who he's talking to?

What really happened is that the Kosovars were inspired by the Buddhists in Vietnam (despite what you hear, these folks are rather casual Muslims, and have been polluted by other influences), and thus as a protest all shot each other, and the last one alive, then shot himself in the head. I think that is consistent with the evidence, don't you?