[The Great Satan]

Richard A. Muller, a 1982 MacArthur Fellow, is a professor in the Physics Department at UC-Berkeley where he teaches a course entitled, "Physics for future Presidents". He is also a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

How can somebody so bright be so dumb? The letters were self-identified as anthrax, an even included instructions on treatment. They were not attacks, but exactly what they appeared to be -- threats to perpetrate attacks. How can anybody still not have figured this out after six months?

[aristeides]

Go easy on Muller! He tells us only a tiny minority of people believe that the anthrax was sent by anybody other than a domestic nutcase or malcontent. And that's probably an accurate description of the people he knows.

So he's only going to dare going a certain distance outside of the range of opinions he encounters in other people. His being willing to believe the source is Moslem is brave enough.