MIT Scientist Disputes Evidence of Sarin Attack

[Ethereal]

The author basically says the WH can't make assumptions based on the photographic evidence...then goes on to make assumptions himself.

He said their conclusions are based on assumptions, not that they can't make them. And what assumptions did he make, exactly? Because unlike the White House, he isn't asserting a conclusion. Rather, he's challenging a conclusion that's been asserted by the White House, so the burden of proof isn't on him, it's on the White House, and they've clearly fallen short of the high burden of proof that would be needed to rationalize an act of war against a sovereign nation.

[Tahuyaman]

Nothing in open source indicates that there was a sarin gas attack.

Do you think the dead people and their families are concerned about the type of chemical agent used?

[Ethereal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

So to me it looks like this guy has been disputing government everything as a mainstay to his getting published.

If you are a scientist with an agenda you will come up with the findings you want...

Exercises skepticism of government = Has an agenda

Who can argue with that?

[Ethereal]

I believe I called this a while back. I said that soon the apologists will deny the incident even took place.

He did not deny that a chemical incident took place.

[Bo-4]

Yet anther old & out of touch RW Loon weighs in?

Cool i guess

Theodore A. Postol (born 1946) is a professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a prominent critic of U.S. government statements about missile defense. He has also criticized the U.S. narratives of the Syrian government's involvement in the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack and the 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.

[Ethereal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Postol

So to me it looks like this guy has been disputing government everything as a mainstay to his getting published.

If you are a scientist with an agenda you will come up with the findings you want...

Classic case of attacking the source instead of attacking the argument.

And why are you so astute at finding an "agenda" with this scientist but not with the government officials whose narrative you've accepted as gospel?

[Ethereal]

Yet anther RW Loon weighs in?

Cool i guess

Theodore A. Postol (born 1946) is a professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a prominent critic of U.S. government statements about missile defense. He has also criticized the U.S. narratives of the Syrian government's involvement in the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack and the 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.

Another poster who utterly fails to address the substance of the argument being made, opting instead to attack the source and smear him as a "RW loon".

[MisterVeritis]

Do you think the dead people and their families are concerned about the type of chemical agent used?

I just shake my head.

[MisterVeritis]

I believe I called this a while back. I said that soon the apologists will deny the incident even took place.

What is it you believe you called?

[Tahuyaman]

He did not deny that a chemical incident took place.

So The type of chemical agent is the issue?