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...Meselson said he became suspicious of the government's claims two months later when he read a State Department report stating that yellow rain contained traces of pollen...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...
...when Meselson and his colleagues announced their findings, the government refused to accept them, and the Reagan Administration continued to classify the Soviet Union as a suspected producer of biological toxins, the professor said...
...Meselson, whom Biochemistry Department Chair Steven C. Harrison called "one of the most outstanding scientist-statesmen in the last few decades," said ethical concerns also played a role in his work...
...think it is against our standards of accountability to make a charge against a foreign government without checking all the facts first," Meselson said...