Bad Sam - Conspiracy Theories with a ring of truth to them: July 2004:
Are The World's Top Microbiologists Being Murdered?
The first anthrax attacks were reported in the US on October 19, 2001. Since then, the world's leading experts in the field of microbiology have been dying, most under extremely suspicious circumstances. Here are some details of the most significant 20 such deaths:
November 12, 2001: Dr. Benito Que, a cell biologist working on infectious diseases, was found beaten to death outside his laboratory at the Miami Medical School. No arrests and no suspects.
November 14, 2001: Dr. Don C. Wiley was one of the world's most highly renowned biochemists who worked at Harvard. His car was found in the middle of the Mississippi River Bridge, with the engine running. Thirty-five days later, Dr. Wiley's body was fished out of the river, 300 miles south of where he vanished. No arrests, no suspects.
November 23, 2001: Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, a former microbiologist for Biopreparat, the Soviet biological-weapons production facility, was found dead of a reported stroke in Wiltshire, England. Dr. Pasechnik defected from the Soviet Union in 1989. His revelations about the Soviet Union's production of such biological agents as anthrax, plague, tularemia and smallpox provided an inside account of one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War.
December 10, 2001: Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found stabbed to death by an intruder in Leesburg, Virginia. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing for 15 years.
December 14, 2001: Microbiologist Set Van Nguyen, a 15 year employee at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. Colleagues consider his death extremely suspicious.
February 8, 2002: The head of the microbiology sub-faculty of the Russian State Medical University, Victor Korshunov was found dead of blunt trauma head injuries in the entrance of his house in Moscow. No arrests, no suspects.
February 16, 2002: Dr. Ian Langford was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home. Langford was a Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (UK), was discovered by police and ambulance men. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair. No arrests, no suspects.
February 27, 2002: Dr. Tanya Holzmayer, a pioneering scientist, murdered by a former colleague, Guyang Huang. He shot her when she opened her front door of her Mt. View, California home. Mr. Huang then conveniently killed himself. Both were found shot to death, case closed. The only witness was a pizza delivery man who worked for a non-existent pizza place. Dr. Holzmayer was a former Russian genome scientist who had co-invented a tool that has helped find hundreds of molecular targets to combat cancer and HIV.
March 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, an award-winning microbiologist died when he was struck by a vehicle while out jogging. Considered one of the world's top biologists, Wynn-Williams had assessed the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes, including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming.
March 25, 2002: Denver, CO, Dr. Steven Mostow died in a small plane crash. Dr. Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts and was Associate Dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Mostow was an expert on the threat of bio-terrorism. No cause of crash determined.
July 17, 2003: Microbiologist Dr. David Kelly, 59, was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrists near his home in England, days after being named as the Iraq dossier mole. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death continues. Dr. Kelly was Britain's leading expert on Baghdad's weapons programs, and one of the world's most renowned microbiologists.
October 11, 2003: West Nile researcher, Dr. Michael Perich, 46, died in a one-vehicle car accident. From 1986 to 1992, Perich worked at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., as the vector suppression program manager and research medical entomologist. The anthrax used in the US attacks originated at Fort Detrick.
November 2, 2003: Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union to Great Britain while on a trip to Paris. He had been the top scientist in the USSR bioweapons program, which is heavily dependent upon DNA sequencing. In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of the British and US governments, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism. The cause of the death was certified as a stroke. But it has emerged that a pathologist attached to MI5, Britain's internal security service, examined the body. His findings are not known. "There are a number of nerve agents that can mimic a stroke and leave no traces," said Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a US specialist in the field of toxic poisons.
November 20, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine's molecular virology and microbiology department in Houston, was walking to his car Nov. 20 when he was hit from behind by a white or light-colored cargo van that jumped the sidewalk in the 1600 block of South Braeswood. He was killed instantly, no arrests, no suspects.
January 19, 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, one of the world's top experts on viruses and infectious illnesses, died in Galveston. The cause was listed as complications of a lung transplant In the last two years, Dr. Shope worked on a Defense Department project to develop antidotes to viral agents that terrorists might use.
January 24, 2004: Michael Patrick Kiley, one of the world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities died of a massive heart attack. He was at the forefront in the early studies of Lassa fever, the Ebola virus and mad cow disease while at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
(strangely, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galveston lab for Homeland Security. The lab will house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones. They died in the same week.)
March 11, 2004: Vadake Srinivasan, originally from India, was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees. He died in a mysterious single car accident in Baton Rouge, La.
May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56, died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery. Dr. Mallove had a broad experience in high technology engineering for government agencies and the military at companies including Hughes Research Laboratories and MIT.
June 16, 2004: William T. McGuire , 39 , of Woodbridge, N.J. His dismembered body was found floating in three suitcases in the Chesapeake Bay last month. McGuire was a senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
NOTE: It does not matter what the individual circumstances of each death are. Probably a couple of these deaths are innocuous. The insurance industry uses scientific tables to accurately predict death rates. Based on the 1997 CSO Mortality Tables, the odds that all of these men could collectively die during a 30 month period is a staggering 14,000,000,000:1
This makes it logically impossible for any reasonable person to deny that the world's leading microbiology researchers are being murdered, beginning with the anthrax attacks thru last month.
The question is why are they being killed, and by whom?
well, it seems to me you are way to easy to dismiss the simple idea of the government is behind anything. do you think these are infallible, uncorruptable people in charge? i think it is OUR duty to protect OUR rights as individuals and as a society. take a step back and look at history. if you learn nothing there then perhaps you are better served in a different field. who wins dictates the truth. not the greatest strategy for humanity but unfortunately it’s all we’ve got.
— xian Mar 24, 07:22 PM #
Hi Betsy, is it irresponsible to consider these quotes from the firefighter transcripts on 9/11?
“The captain of emergency medical services said “somewhere around the middle of the world trade center there was this orange and red flash coming out … initially it was just one flash then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode … and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides … as far as could see these popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger going both up and down and then all around the building” (page 15—pdf file; Google’s web version is here)”
“Similiarly, the Assistant Fire Commissioner stated “I thought . . . before . . . No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. . . . I . . . saw a flash flash flash . . . [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they . . . blow up a building. . . ?” . In the same statement, the Assistant Commissioner recounts how a lieutenant firefighter he spoke with independently verified the flashes.”
Find it all here:
http://sfgate.com/gate/pictures/2005/09/10/ga_karin_deshore.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Gregory_Stephen.txt
You can choose to live in ignorance if you choose, but don’t you dare try to silence those that choose not to.
— somebigguy Mar 24, 08:27 PM #
Thinking our own government has it in for us is reassuring…how, exactly?
— vero Mar 24, 08:55 PM #
Seeking the truth will prevent another attack wouldn’t you think?
— somebigguy Mar 24, 09:11 PM #
And what about Truth, Justice, and the “American Way”????
Since when is it you can’t be bothered to hold people accountable for a false flag terrorist attack like 9/11?
Maybe if Cheney points the next plane directly at your living room you’d find the time to try to bring the perpetrators to justice.
— somebigguy Mar 24, 09:13 PM #
9/11/01 was a horrific day in American History. No doubt about that.
What I do doubt however, after watching your appearance on Hannity and Colmes, is your ability as a journalist to seek the truth.
If you are so strong in your convictions that the Official Story of 9/11 is true, why not make even a shallow attempt to prove that instead of attacking the characters of the people questioning it? What exactly are you hiding?
Why attempt to discredit people that have spent countless hours investigating the events of 9/11, far more than you yourself have done (obviously).
Using your own logic, its arguable that “believing that the 9/11 truth “conspiracy nutbags” are simply that, nutbags, is far more reassuring and comfortable than to admit perhaps your own government was complicit in the events of that day. Have you never read the Northwoods documents?
Have you ever read the mission statement of PNAC? Do you even know what PNAC is??
I’m not sure what kind of journalist you are, but it doesn’t seem that you’re even remotely versed in this issue enough to offer commentary on it.
Try to change that please.
— Cait Napier Mar 24, 09:22 PM #
Please answer the following for us conspiracy nuts. When you get done with these I have many other questions for you.
PS: What makes you a qualified expert? Why are you and many others afraid of a truly independent investigation by experts such as Professor Jones among many others? WHY!
Why was all the structural steel shipped overseas for disposal?
Why did WTC 7 come down?
Until these can be answered I think we should start planning a keel hauling party.
I didn’t mention that the buildings fell at terminal velocity for that height and weren’t slowed by the next supporting floor, but that would only lead to silly discussions about physics being a theory like evolution and so not allowed to be entered as evidence in Kentucky.
— Ephesus Mar 24, 09:39 PM #
Taking another look at your blog here, I notice two things that stand out to me.
1) You said you received many emails in support of Sheen.
2) all of your comments here are negative.
DOESNT THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING????
Or are we all crazy and you’re the sane one? (God help us if thats true.)
— Heather Lane Mar 24, 09:46 PM #
Betsy either your too stupid, scared for your prfessional career or part of this ZIONIST ambush that is trying to take over America. OPEN your eyes to the truth. If you have children or loved ones and you really care for them then help expose the truth. The innocent lives of over 3000 americans and over 2000 US soldiers that have died since we were tricked into this unjust war because of 9\11 should be justified and a honest attempt should be made to learn the truth about 9\11.I dare you to visit www.prisonplanet.com and learn the truth if you trully are an American.
— Scared American Mar 24, 10:06 PM #
yanno whats funny about all of this.. here is a group of people all working toward a goal, exposing 9/11 and here is a woman who says she’s a reporter saying YOU’RE ALL WRONG! spouting some kinda CoIntelPro psychobabble or something. i dunno, i dont think, after reading her blog, she’s really smart enough to be CoIntelPro.. but whatever she is, she isn’t a reliable source of information and WHY ON EARTH did fox discredit themselves by allowing this woman to speak on their show? they did the biggest disservice to themseleves, not Charlie Sheen.
when ya try to prove someone wrong and the only thing you ahve to do that with is inane tripe and sarcasm, it says a lot more about you than the person who claims to have a valid argument.
its embarassing to have people like you speak in public, claiming that you represent the voice of america. really.. embarssing. you dont speak for me lady.
— Andy K. Mar 24, 10:31 PM #
EUREKA! A quote from the homepage of this site:
Previously, Hart served on the Reagan White House staff as a spokesman in the office of media relations.
CoIntelPro indeed.. good call Andy.
— Heather Lane Mar 24, 10:37 PM #
Just look into this with an open mind. Don’t dismiss everything because it isn’t the story that you’ve heard.
Let’s say the Bush administration DID have something to do with this. They’re not going to tell you. The main stream information isn’t reliable, it’s controlled.
You made the comment that Hollywood is out of touch with the main stream, like it’s a bad thing. Main stream does not automatically mean true, accurate, or good.
— Brandon Massey Mar 25, 05:22 AM #
Hey there Betsy,
Wow! Look at all these real Americans that agree 100% with you. You’re right we should’t ask “questions” or look at the “evidence”. Because that may lead to the “truth”. And again you’re right on babe! Conspiracy theories are just for “fun”. And silly me was just about to blame the USA government and then become a bliss ninny by that comforting fact that my own government has been completely and utterly hijacked by mass murdering thugs and thieves. But tonight I sleep like a baby lamb, because it’s only Islamist 10,000 miles away that want to kill me. And you were so right on that last word you put forth, “Hollywood just doesn’t get it”. Thanks for sorting it all out.
GOd bless (that is if you believe in him and all:)
-W. Smith
BTW … maybe you’d like to ‘pull it’ in your bio where you reference … “Hart appeared some twenty times on the [Bill Maher] program with stars like Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin” ... “Rob Lowe” “Ted Dansen” and “Oprah” . Cuz aren’t those folk “Hollywood”?
— Winston Smith Mar 25, 07:00 AM #