The Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/the-novichok-story-is-indeed-another-iraqi-wmd-scam/ … - via:@CraigMurrayOrg
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And how does the mass spectrometer tell you the sample was made in Russia if you don't have an example of a Russian made one to compare? I shall listen to your reply with genuine interest, despite your completely unprovoked aggression.
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So now you're going to lecture me on chemistry? This ought to be interesting. Let me give you some background to all of this. When I heard who the victim was, and that it was a nerve agent, I immediately suspected what the chemical formula was likely to be 1/
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This is because I knew about the 'novichok' agents. They were developed in the 70s and 80s by Vil Mirzayanov among others, who now lives as an exile in the US. He was so horrified that he went public an eventually to jail in Russia 2/
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'Novichok' however is a generic term given to a family of organophosphorus acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. They look like this. The structure on the right is A-232 3/pic.twitter.com/PMT0iX89AM
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VX in comparison looks like this. It has a different chemical structure. Just by looking at the structure, a chemist can tell you what the mass, infrared, NMR, UV and other spectra are likely to look like with a high degree of confidence 4/pic.twitter.com/1eDIskj9lZ
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This is because chemistry is a *science*, and sciences differentiate themselves from other kinds of discipline by allowing people to make *testable predictions*. It's a branch of *inductive reasoning*. 5/
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These look like simple chemical compounds but in reality they are difficult to make *safely*. One tiny drop, about the size of a pinhead, of VX is enough to kill a healthy adult. These compounds are reputedly ten times more deadly 6/
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Therefore anybody undertaking to make them has to take extreme precautions. If you just wanted to *kill* someone because you wanted them out of the way, why not shoot them? 7/
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Thank you for taking the time to write this thread
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Thank you for taking the time to read it. It gave me no real pleasure to have to write it, as it's like having to spell out elementary logic to a slow student.
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Sharing knowledge with others is an honorable endeavor. Pls keep at it
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I shall. Thank you for the support.
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Absolutely top work
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From other continent and hemisphere, I wish to thank you too. Learned more from your tweets in 30 seconds then in a week's worth of *journalistic* coverage.
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Yes thanks Craig, difficult for us without the technical expertise to establish credibility - an ex ambassador to UK with political and foreign governmental experience... or some random Corbyn bashing chemist on Twitter?
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This random Corbyn bashing chemist knows his chemistry, unlike Murray, and unlike you I expect.
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"I'm a chemist. Here is how novichok is made. Therefore Russia did it." Brilliant.
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Well, if that's the message you took away from that thread, I really don't have anything more to say.
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Can't say I'm unhappy with that.

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That's the message I took from it.
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That's because you're not very good at critical thinking.
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Not my problem if you can't follow my argument.
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Sounded more like a playground insult than an argument to me. Try looking up "ad hominem". It's a well known logical fallacy.
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'Ad hominem' means playing the man instead of the ball. I'm just pointing out that you have completely missed the point of my argument. Which is that a *reasonable* conclusion is that the Russians did it. And recent findings have shown me to be correct. Clear now?
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