U.S. Army Dispersed Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Over U.S. Cities in the 1950s and 1960s « LewRockwell.com Blog: sn't this reassuring? They dispersed combinations of stuff, all with unknown effects, and all in secrecy. The microorganisms were likely to have been bacteria. From the Guardian article, we learn what some of that stuff may have been and was in England. It included in England "serratia marcescens bacteria, with an anthrax simulant and phenol." Also: "between 1961 and 1968 more than a million people along the south coast of England, from Torquay to the New Forest, were exposed to bacteria including e.coli and bacillus globigii, which mimics anthrax."
How reassuring is it to learn that the microbes do not affect healthy people. Who is healthy and who is not? This is not an all-or-none thing. Who can say that a toll is not taken on those termed healthy? And what difference does it make? Why should the less than healthy, whatever that means, be exposed?
And we also learn that the National Academy "was not asked to assess the possible health effects of these tests."
I thoroughly distrust the links of the National Academy and, thus, its studies to the government and U.S. Army:
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Actually, the adverse health impact was known at the time of the spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide in 1953, as early as 1932, a study concluded that cadmium, and I quote, "causes pathological changes". Just Google zinc cadmium sulfide and you'll find this.
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