[blackdog]

When a social worker (female) claims that a 62 year old male is a homicidal kook, I'd bet on the "kook" to be more stable than the BS credentialed "social worker". When a Phd scientist works under top security conditions and has reached the age of 62, I think his motives in life have been long established. Put me in a group therapy session and I'd have some real fun too.

Anyone look into his real medical condition? I mean not the one that a social worker who graduated from nausea university with a BA in social work, but a real physician? Did he have cancer? Other reasons to be depressed?

[Battle Axe]

Merle Nass was a friend of his and said he had a chronic blood disorder that he felt was a result of repeated vaccinations for anthrax.

The very vaccine he had helped to create. He knew that the adjuvant, an oil, was causing problems.

I think he was worried about having to vaccinate everyone and having a quarter of them die with reactions to the adjuvant. Merle Nass comments are on another thread.

[the invisib1e hand]

When a Phd scientist works under top security conditions and has reached the age of 62, I think his motives in life have been long established.

In plain sight in the news stories about Dr. Ivins is that he was a scientific prodigy (with all the usual "nerdiness"), family man, devout Catholic. No wonder he's an easy target.

The press has already convicted him.

[the invisib1e hand]

my favorite writer sums up the case as follows:

To be sure they aren't outdone in trash journalism, the New York Post picks up on the Baltimore Sun theme above and raises the level of character defamation a few notches, quoting Dr. Ivins' brother referring to his tragically deceased brother as a "wussy." This is the same gentleman who stated that the accomplished scientist, owner of two patents, "thought he was God." Perhaps the real story is a case of malicious sibling rivalry.

Also, the Post couldn't resist the "...and he bought a handgun!" angle, complete with pictures. So, there you have it: nerdy scientist who was pro life, owned a handgun, had thought about killing someone (and was innocent enough to admit it), has a paranoid social worker, has comments added to his social worker's file in pen (as in, after the fact, perhaps), had a jealous brother, and stood to make "tens of thousands of dollars" by carrying off an evil mail order campaign.

Case closed?

Hardly.

[Shermy]

“When a social worker (female) claims that a 62 year old male is a homicidal kook, I’d bet on the “kook” to be more stable than the BS credentialed “social worker”. When a Phd scientist works under top security conditions and has reached the age of 62, I think his motives in life have been long established. Put me in a group therapy session and I’d have some real fun too.”

A person I told this too had the same reaction, he could have been speaking sarcastically.