Outstanding Questions
See September 6 version above
See September 6 version above
I am honored to be on the board of the Alliance for Human Research Protection and to be working with its dynamic President, Vera Sharav, on stopping a dangerous trial of anthrax vaccine in healthy children. Why sacrifice healthy children for this purpose, when the vaccine does not even have a useful role in post-exposure prophylaxis…
The availability of treatments for anthrax after an exposure eliminates the need for pre-exposure vaccination. The National Strategic Stockpile now contains both antiserum and monoclonal antibodies for anthrax, in addition to a range of antibiotics that were added prior to the Project Bioshield acquisitions. General Russell, former commander at Fort Detrick, wrote the following: Clin…
Detailed in a book review of “Obama’s Wars” by Bob Woodward in today’s Washington Post: We have not declared war against Pakistan, and Congress has not approved making war in Pakistan. Yet we illegally send drones there to kill, and our CIA runs a mercenary army in Pakistan. The American Rule of Law is what…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10128185/Boris-Johnson-jokes-horrified-children-feeding-humans-animals-climate-change-event.html Boris Johnson jokes about ‘feeding humans to animals’ to ‘redress the sad imbalance’ on the planet to baffled children as he hosts bizarre ‘Kids Lobby’ briefing in Downing Street The PM was taking questions with WWF UK’s Tanya Steele in No9 Downing Street when they faced a question about the balance of nature on Earth…
From today’s NY Times on yet another medical research project (performed at 23 top academic medical centers) that was done sloppily, missing a standard-care arm, and failed to provide truly informed consent… performed on unconsenting very low birthweight newborns, who were at extremely high risk of a bad outcome, but who might also lead a normal…
Here, the WaPo goes into the tawdry story of how DHHS’ Preparedness group and BARDA got prototypes for a machine to produce reusable N95 masks, then dropped the ball despite their $1.5B yearly funding for ‘preparedness.’ From the NY Times: Few in the protective equipment industry are surprised by the shortages, because they’ve been predicted for…
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Again with the hoax letters? The FBI has never said a word about any hoax letters being linked to the case. Why would the anthrax attacker(s) need to send hoax letters, anyway? Plenty of other people were already doing that, especially after the attacks. One more would be lost in the noise.
Good questions. Some more.
Were swabs for anthrax found in Ivins home, car, etc. that didn’t match those in the letters? Do other anthrax researchers have 100 percent no spore home and car environments?
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/aug/25/00012/
” They swabbed his residence, locker, several cars, the tools in his laboratory, and his office space, but found no trace of anthrax that genetically matched the bacteria in the letters.”
If they found anthrax that didn’t match in his home, car, etc. but didn’t find anthrax that did, it would tend towards making it unlikely Ivins was the mailer.
There were such hoax letters before 9/11, they were after too. This undermines the “Ivins is a letter writer” proof of guilt because anthrax threats by mail were common. Remember how Hatfill’s commission of a study about anthrax via mail was supposedly evidence of guilt according to prior FBI delusions? (If Ivins was mentally ill, what about the FBI agents who wrote that Greendale School/Sorority/NBC scenario?)
The block handwriting is either 1. made so to disguise the author’s natural handwriting, a not untypical criminal conduct or 2. The writing of a person whose first language did not use Latin letters. Say, Arabic or Urdu. Discounting foreign possibilities was economically-correct safety-mongering by the government.
It is possible the FBI floated the London letter story. More likely it was Ms. ______ and her chattering friends who made it up while hunting the Great White Whale, I mean, the Angry White Male Perpetrator. Early versions of her “research” inadvertantly left the word “Hatfill” on her web publications.
My outstanding question is, when will the forensic evidence or even, the scientific evidence be evaluated in a forum un-mediated by the Bush administration?
Elizabeth, I heard McCain will put Sarah in charge of that post haste as soon as he’s sworn in.
What many fail to realize is that some letters were sent out earlier in the year that implied the destruction of the something as well as explaining that the person reading the letter would not be alive to see it.
Also within this letter was a medallion for the recipient to pray with.
The person that received this one letter thought it was an idle threat and cleaned the area using universal precautions and threw the letter and other items away.