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by Gary Novak, Physiologist
Propaganda on biological weapons including
anthrax originates in the dark cellars of government for the
purpose of swaying the public for increased police powers.
A terrorist threat is hyped or contrived, while military research
on contagious diseases is concealed.
I avoided diversions on the other pages,
because I wanted to be as succinct as possible. Here are some
points which require more development of context.
Liquid
Anthrax is Ineffective.
One major point is that using
biowarfare agents in liquid form is unrealistic.
The bureaucrats don't know it; and a lot of peripheral scientists
don't know it.
When the bureaucrats found that Iraq
was buying spray nozzles for planes, they went hyper over
it. They should have done the opposite; they should have sold
the sprayers at a discount, and everyone would have been better
off.
Microbes
Tend to Clump.
Some background on basics is needed here.
The physical characteristics of microbes have a high tendency
to be oriented toward clumping in various complex ways.
For example, the yeast which I studied
in graduate school produced clumps; and I had to use special
procedures to unclump it for counting. The reason why yeasts
sometimes clump is because insects will pick up more of them
on their feet when they are clumped.
Bacteria almost always have a pattern
for clumping. You've probably heard of staph bacteria; they
often take over hospitals. Staph is Latin for cluster. The
clumps look like clusters of grapes. Staph normally attacks
skin through pores and produces a toxin like anthrax. The
clumping allows the toxin to be concentrated in one place,
so it can damage tissue more effectively.
Similar to it is strep, which creates
strep throat. Strep is Latin for chain. The chains allow clumping
while keeping the profile low for clinging to tissue without
being washed down the throat by saliva.
Anthrax
Grows in Chains.
You've probably seen Anthrax growing
on TV. It creates a chain which keeps getting longer and longer
until it covers the entire surface. The cells stay joined
together in chains, so the toxin is concentrated to produce
the maximum amount of tissue damage.
Clumping
is not Suited for a Mist.
The clumping characteristics of microbes
demonstrate the importance of physical characteristics in
distribution. None of the organisms are naturally distributed
through a mist. They certainly
wouldn't clump if they were.
Therefore, if they are in a liquid, they
will clump; and when sprayed, they will come out as clumps,
if they come out at all without plugging the apparatus. Normal
spray nozzles could not be used. Clumps and cells are not
anything like a chemical. Spraying devices are designed for
chemicals, not microbes. That fact seems to escape the awareness
of most peripheral scientists as well as the nonscientists.
Air
Precipitates Liquids.
Propagandists talk about spry nozzles
that will produce a five micron mist. One of the absurdities
is that the characteristics of a mist are not determined by
a nozzle but by the air which it is sprayed into.
What sort of nozzle creates rain? When
air gets supersaturated, it creates a precipitate. Spraying
liquid into air supersaturates it creating a precipitate.
That means that liquid particles combine to form larger ones.
The more the liquid, the larger the drops.
For biowarfare purposes, a
very large amount of liquid would have to be forced into a
relatively small amount of air, because the delivery
devices would have to be fast, and they could not cover much
area. There is no delivery device that would be adequate,
because air will not hold a large amount of liquid. Air is
often saturated already, particularly at night.
Iraq focuses on liquids for its biowarfare
agents, which demonstrates that its science is not up to the
level of a coolaid stand. Putting liquid in a scud missile
is a joke.
Westerners haven't seemed to have quite
grasped how backwards science can be in the third world including
Iraq. Journalists often speak of Iraq's sophisticated science
laboratories, as if you could order science through the mail
like gold plated bathroom fixtures.
Larry
Harris's Story.
Here's a story that tells everything about
Iraq's sophisticated science. This story comes from Larry
Harris. He's the sort-of microbiologist who keeps getting
thrown in jail for trying to develop an Anthrax vaccine. He
said in his book, which he put on the internet, that he took
several courses in advanced microbiology in Ohio.
The courses were presumably undergraduate;
but regardless, he studied microbiology on paper and has never
spent enough time in a laboratory to see how microbes actually
grow. So he swallows everything he hears hook, line and sinker.
His campaign against biowarfare began
with a discussion with another microbiology student who was
from Iraq. She said she was the daughter of a former official
of Iraq. She was studying microbiology, because she had been
in the laboratories in Iraq and was enthused about biological
warfare.
Spray-cans
full of Gunk.
She said Iraq developed a terrorist procedure
for spreading anthrax in this country by sending persons around
with spray-cans of the type that are used for spraying gardens.
She said the procedure was to open the can, put in some media,
inoculate it and let it grow. After a few days it could be
sprayed in subway tunnels or ventilation systems to kill people.
Remember how anthrax grows? It forms
chains of cells stuck together for clumping; and it forms
a capsule under some conditions. The spray-can that it grew
in would have slimy, smelly gunk in it which
wouldn't go through the hose,
let along a spray nozzle.
But there are several reasons why that
procedure is exactly what Iraq would have developed. One reason
is because pathogens in a liquid are easy to work with. The
bugs don't come out of the liquid easily to harm the workers.
Secondly, when dictators such as Saddam
Hussein demand results, someone better produce results, or
heads roll. Dictators of that type maintain an intimidation
atmosphere by executing someone for failures as well as rebellion.
Since biowarfare in its traditionally
assumed form cannot be produced, concocting any pretense which
convinces Saddam Hussein would be the goal of the researchers.
When the peripheral scientists fall for it, it does the job.
Russia
Spends Money on Futility.
Russia does a lot of research on biological
weapons including anthrax. But it is mostly genetic engineering.
Where that approach fails is that there is not a realistic
delivery system.
Spending a lot of money is not the same
thing as succeeding. Since the agents cannot be tested under
actual conditions, their limitations are not visible to the
nonexperts, and the researchers would pull the wool over their
eyes, because they have ideal jobs, with all the money the
military spends on research.
A few years ago, Anthrax escaped from
a research facility in Russia and killed 68 people in a town
downwind. Apparently, Russia still claims the anthrax was
in meat. But a Harvard professor went over there and said
ten grams escaped from a nearby research facility. How can
a professor look at a building and determine that ten grams
came out of it?
Here's what would have happened. The
military desperately needs to test its products, and killing
people is the only way it can do it. So they would have released
about a kilogram of powdered Anthrax spores from their research
facility on a windy day; and nothing would have happened.
Then a few weeks later, they would have
released about ten kilograms; and nothing would have happened.
So they would have gotten out a fan and clouded the air for
two days, which would have killed the 68 persons.
U.S. Military
Propaganda.
The U.S. military has an official web
site on Anthrax where they state that there are enough anthrax
spores in a gram to kill 100 million persons. A gram would
be about a trillion Anthrax spores, if pure, since bacterial
spores are about one micron in diameter and about the density
of water.
A micron is one ten thousandths of a centimeter.
So a cubic micron is a trillionth of a cubic centimeter, the
later weighing one gram for water.
The military uses the figure of ten thousand
Anthrax spores being required to start an infection in the
lungs. So dividing a trillion spores by ten thousand yields
100 million persons being killed per gram.
So how many persons does a gram of Anthrax
kill? Is it 6.8 persons, as supposedly occurred in Russia,
or 100 million, as the U.S. military claims? There's a lot
of difference.
Anthrax
was Trivial before Recent Hype.
Anthrax was unheard of by the public
before sometime around 1995, when a flood of media stories
appeared. At first, the subject was supposed terrorists weapons,
but anthrax eventually became
the center of focus.
A flood of stories hitting the media
means the government underworld is behind them. Even during
the Gulf War, anthrax was not mentioned. When the Israelis
prepared for attack, the only thing they considered was nerve
gas. The reason why is because anthrax
was never considered to be a significant biological weapon.
The reason why Iraq never developed anthrax
significantly is because it was too trivial to waste time
on. The researchers left it in liquid form, so they could
tell the higher-ups that they were doing something, but they
knew it was too trivial to waste time converting it to a dry
powder, which would be difficult and expensive.
When the U.S Government started promoting
supposed terrorists weapons for disinformation purposes in
1995, very few persons had any way of knowing the truth about
anthrax. Why are exploiters hyping anthrax now but weren't
before 1995?
If anthrax
were as dangerous as they say it is, it would have been
in the news for a century.
Anthrax took off in the media because
the biology is obscure, and there was no separation of contrivance
from fact. Before 1995, the persons who knew anything about
anthrax considered it to be trivial to a point of irrelevance,
even as a biological weapon.
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