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...Crimson conducted a discussion last week with Meselson, Peter Ashton, Arnold Professor of Botany, and Stuart Schwartzstein, director of the Chemical/Biology Weapons Information project with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Crimson editor Lavea Brachman moderated the discussion...
...Ashton: I'd go back and ask what is meant by "yellow rain," because one of the problems is a question of definition...
...Ashton: What you just said is the kind of evidence on which our position rests, namely the use of these kinds of substances in warfare is based totally on heresay. At this point, the evidence is quite inadequate...
...Ashton: I would say that I think it was very unfortunate that the evidence, samples that were available were not circulated more widely among the scientific community. This would have led to the mistake being avoided...
...well be nothing more than bee excrement. Samples of bee feces collected at Harvard bore striking similarities--in size, general appearance, and specific characteristics--to samples and descriptions of samples of spots said to be yellow rain, according to Meselson and four other scientists--including. Harvard botanist Peter S. Ashton, director of the Arnold Arboretum...