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Dr Shari
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 Posted - 01/26/2002 : 01:47:47 [Permalink]
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For the person who said it was a doctor because of the bad hand writing... I just want you to know we write poorly to cover up the fact we can't spell.
It was the college professor who committed suicide by jumping off the bridge anyway.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/26/2002 : 07:10:43 [Permalink]
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Wow, Dr. S, that's a twist I never thought of! I assume this is speculation, since if it was confirmed it would be all over the news.
Any speculation about what his motive might have been? Do you know if he was in New Jersey at the time the letters were sent? (He lived in New England, not New Jersey.)
-- Donnie B.
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2002 : 22:00:15 [Permalink]
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Well, here's a somewhat technical report on the possibilities suggested by (non-secret) evidence available to the scientific community, written by the chair of the Federation of American Scientists Working Group on Biological Weapons Verification:
http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm
Their suggested profile of the perpetrator might raise some people's political hackles...
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 01/26/2002 : 22:47:45 [Permalink]
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For the person who said it was a doctor because of the bad hand writing... I just want you to know we write poorly to cover up the fact we can't spell.
LOL. That's probably true too but I was told it was because so the precription couldn't be forged.
As a side note, I'm surprized that now days so many seem to be admiting that they can't spell. When I was younger I was embarrased to say I couldn't. Everyone else always was good at it. My teachers now are even telling us to check their spelling to be sure it's correct. Thanks for listening.
Rap Crap is to music what Paint by Numbers is to art!
Yes, I am NormaL!!
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Dr Shari
Skeptic Friend
135 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2002 : 05:18:49 [Permalink]
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The professor who jumped off the bridge was linked to research with anthrax and had access to it so he either was responsible or he was part of the plan by acquiring the anthrax for someone. Either way he died it stopped. Now the only reason we haven't heard more is just a question of decidng ultimate responsibility so someone can sue.
Do we sue the professors estate? Do we sue the lab where he worked because they let a crazy person have access to it in the first place? That is just my own experiance.
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Garrette
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 01/30/2002 : 05:45:49 [Permalink]
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I'm trying to find a reference to the professor jumping off the bridge but am striking out. Could someone point me in the right direction, please?
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2002 : 10:54:20 [Permalink]
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Garrette,
Dr. Shari is referring to Harvard University Prof. Don C. Wiley, who apparently committed suicide by jumping off a bridge in Memphis, Tenn, in mid-November 2001.
But IMHO, our good doctor is jumping to conclusions about Dr. Wiley's involvement in the anthrax attacks. I have not seen anything to link him to the crimes; indeed, he was a highly-respected research professor of biochemistry and biophysics. His research had more to to with HIV and Ebola than with anthrax.
The fact that the attacks stopped at more or less the same time could be entirely coincidental. There are certainly numerous other people who had access to anthrax (I'm not sure if Dr. Wiley ever did), and far more reason to mount the attacks than Dr. Wiley had.
Here's a news story about the case:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/missingscientist011128.html
-- Donnie B.
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Garrette
SFN Regular
USA
562 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2002 : 11:05:00 [Permalink]
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Thanks, DB.
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/04/2002 : 14:12:44 [Permalink]
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If the "anthraxer" isn't dead, then the supply running out is a strong possibilty. One of the first places the feds started looking was at labs/medical supply who had access to anthrax. Controls might have been a wee lax prior to 9/11. Right now, you couldn't sneak out a sample virus for the common cold without setting off alarms.
A scenerio: Person had smuggled anthrax out of facility to make (who knows what) point. Mail it out? Ransom? Anyway, 9/11 happens. Oh well, waste not want not, granny used to say. Exceeds all expectations, especially with the cross-contamination. Person is either satisfied and thinks the trail is too cold to worry about it, or can't safely get any more of the virus without great risk of getting caught.
Lisa
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2002 : 21:52:20 [Permalink]
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Another possibility is that the perpetrator has been taken into custody without fanfare.
This would be a logical thing to do if the perp turned out to be some disgruntled jerk whose knowledge derived from work in the defense establishment.
In that case, both the desire to avoid embarassment and the difficulties posed by the possibility of classified information becoming evidence in court would provide an incentive to let the wheels of justice grind without making a production out of it.
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Snake
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USA
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Posted - 02/06/2002 : 00:17:00 [Permalink]
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In that case, both the desire to avoid embarassment and the difficulties posed by the possibility of classified information becoming evidence in court would provide an incentive to let the wheels of justice grind without making a production out of it.
And another thing:
everytime there's some outrages and/or over blown news story we must be on guard. Has anyone been watching congress to see if they've passed any sneeky laws while all that was going on?
Wondering if there was even a scare in the 1st place!
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Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
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Lars_H
SFN Regular
Germany
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Posted - 02/06/2002 : 13:24:27 [Permalink]
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I personally think that it was an American that simply run out of resources or nerves and has decided to stop for now.
But there are also a number of theories that enjoy popularity that have been overlooked here.
-Has he already been caught sentenced and executed in a secret trial, and nobody has been told?
-Is the capturing of the criminal been delayed until after an attack on Irak or some other nation. First retaliate and then quietly admit that they might not have been resposible afterall.
The sad thing is that such conspiracy theories would have been a lot more obviously wrong a year ago then they are now. In the current political climate even idiots who see some sort of 'Reichtags Scenario' behind the WTC Attack and the retliation can't be easily proven wrong, because our leaders work so heart on feeding their paranoias.
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