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Crimson: Professor Meselson, what makes you sure that the yellow spots which have been found are bee feces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bumblebees or the Soviet Union? | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

Meselson: I must disagree with that, because it is the Hmong who handed in the samples and said "this is what comes from the airplanes." Some of these absolutely do not come from planes. They are bee feces. So when someone presents you with a yellow material and says "this came out of an airplane or out of a weapon,"--bee feces don't come out of airplanes or weapons--and you know that he's wrong about that, that should tell you that everything else he has said needs to be reevaluated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bumblebees or the Soviet Union? | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

Meselson: That I can't say. I know only the things that we can establish by objective, scientific criteria here. I have no reason to believe that they've been put up to anything. But there's just no way around it, bee feces cannot, do not, and never come out of airplanes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bumblebees or the Soviet Union? | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

Meselson: they [the yellow spots] have the same diameter as bee feces. They have the same color and texture as bee feces. They have the same number of drops per square foot. The areas that are reported to be covered--a fraction of an acre up to quite a few acres--is the same as the massive flights of bees. That's all we can see with the naked eye. Now we go to what we can see with the microscope. They contain the same high content of pollen, pollen from plants that are mainly pollinated by insects, from plants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bumblebees or the Soviet Union? | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

Meselson: Yes, but we have found spots where the composition was very different. That's also true with bee feces because no two bees eat the same meals. They eat differently. They store the pollen heterogeneously and they eat it heterogeneously. So if this had been an agent of warfare, with no two spots being the same, it would mean that whoever is doing this makes teeny little batches, makes them all different, and sprays them all separately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bumblebees or the Soviet Union? | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

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