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...BEE DUNG...
...Harvard Professor Matthew S. Meselson is persisting in his claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained pollen. Now back from a trip to Thailand, the scientists say they observed honey bees on defecation flights spraying the yellow spots that the government says are the residue of Soviet chemical weapons...
Meselson, a principled opponent of chemical warfare of longstanding, ought to be congratulated for his courageous pursuit of his bee hypothesis in face of ridicule and intransigency by the government. Still, his explanation for the yellow rain phenomenon answers only one part of the broad array of evidence collected by the government to back its claims...
...from alleged attack sites have been studied under laboratories and shown to contain toxins far in excels of what is normally found in Asia; these include samples of rocks, leaves, and blood and urine from alleged victims that do not contain the famous yellow spots Meselson says now are bee feces...
...added that he and Seeley brought back samples of bee feces and foods to test for such substances--which would be further proof in his mind that they cause the yellow rain...