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...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...
...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...
...Meselson: I would use it to mean the alleged agent of toxic warfare in Southeast Asia. The test of a good definition is whether it applies consistently to something out in the real world. In this case there is such a test. It is this: There have been sixteen cases of which I'm aware where people have brought samples of something to embassy officials--the U.S. embassy, the Canadian embassy, the Australian embassy--or Thai government officials, United Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this...
...Meselson: Exactly the contrary. The State Department's own evidence contradicts their conclusion. They have inadequately considered their own evidence. Evidence now available to the State Department points in precisely the opposite direction...
...Meselson: I disagree. The people I know who have conducted extensive interviews in the Hmong camp have told me that they're really not sure whether there is any chemical warfare--that they're impressed by the stories--but that there are also inconsistencies. I don't think it is right to say that everybody who has talked to the Hmong believe in the existence of yellow rain...