[EdLake]

Except, of course, that AFIP published their Newsletter stating that silica was a key aerosolizing component ONE FULL YEAR AFTER the attacks. Plenty of time for hundreds of hours of data analysis by SEM/EDX experts such as Florabel Mullick, Frank Johnson, Marie Jenkins and Victor Kalasinsky to have studied the results from the single most important sample for analysis that had ever entered their lab.

The FACTS say that Tom Geisbert took a prepared sample of the Daschle anthrax to AFIP on the morning of October 25, 2001. By noon they had the results. There is absolutely no reason to believe that Tom Geisbert didn't take the sample with him when he returned to USAMRIID. It would make no sense for him to leave the sample there. There just wasn't enough material to give away samples to people who didn't need it. He only went to AFIP because USAMRIID didn't have an Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer (EDX), so he had to use theirs.

AFIP didn't have more than a few hours to do the examination with the EDX. And they could easily have still believed their assumptions a year later, since they were clearly "out of the loop".

If you have FACTS which say otherwise, let's see them.

Johnson's obit says:

in 2001 he helped identify specific components of the anthrax found in the letter sent to Senator Thomas Daschle.

The "components" (plural) he helped identify were silicon and oxygen.

If you have any FACTS to support your beliefs, let's see them. Stating your beliefs over and over doesn't turn them into facts.

Ed

[TrebleRebel]

"If you have any FACTS to support your beliefs, let's see them."
Sure:



When US Army investigators at Ft Detrick, Md, examined anthrax found in a letter sent to Sen. Thomas Daschle last fall, they discovered that the highly refined spores floated in the air, making them much easier for potential victims to inhale. What made this anthrax so easily aerosolized? A series of sophisticated tests revealed some clues, but the presence of another unidentifiable substance left the investigation incomplete. That’s when Ft Detrick contacted AFIP’s Department of Environmental and Toxicologic Pathology for assistance.

"Ft Detrick sought our assistance to determine the specific components of the anthrax found in the Daschle letter," said Florabel G. Mullick, MD, ScD, SES, AFIP Principal Deputy Director and department chair. AFIP experts utilized an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (an instrument used to detect the presence of otherwise-unseen chemicals through characteristic wavelengths of X-ray light) to confirm the previously unidentifiable substance as silica. "This was a key component," Mullick said. "Silica prevents the anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize.

[Southack]

"The "components" (plural) he helped identify were silicon and oxygen."

Silicon (Si) and Oxygen (O2), when seen together, are known as Silica (i.e. Silicon dioxide).

[Southack]

"In reality, AFIP had no capability for determining the material was silica." ...

87 posted on 10/17/2006 12:45:00 PM CDT by EdLake

 

 

"He only went to AFIP because USAMRIID didn't have an Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometer (EDX), so he had to use theirs." ...

157 posted on 10/18/2006 3:22:56 PM CDT by EdLake

 

 

You are *so* busted.