Anthrax Ping.
NAS Spends $879,550 in effort to find objective scientists and fails!
Objectivity Not a Human Condition, NAS finds!
Who are they going to find to check the work done by Paul Keim on anthrax genetics? How do they find such a person? The FBI used the top scientists in almost every scientific field involved in the investigation. Should the NAS use second-level or third-level scientists to do the verification?
Richard Spertzel will probably volunteer. Here's what he once told the world:
"In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them," said Richard O. Spertzel, chief biological inspector for the U.N. Special Commission from 1994 to 1998. "And even with a good lab and staff to help run it, it might take me a year to come up with a product as good."
He seems ready to start working on reproducing the attack anthrax. All he needs is money.