Science 23 August 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5585, pp. 1264 - 1265
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5585.1264
	
News Focus
PROFILE: BARBARA HATCH ROSENBERG:
Unconventional Detective Bears Down on a Killer
Jennifer Couzin

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has become one of the most visible critics of
the FBI's investigation into the anthrax mailings last fall that
killed five people and sickened at least 17 others. She also has
become the leading nongovernment authority on who might have committed
the crimes. Both admirers and detractors agree that she has pushed the
FBI forward.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/297/5585/1264?ck=nck

Rosenberg lost a lot of credibility after she all but named Hatfill as
the culprit in Congressional testimony in 2002, but it now appears
that her more general hypothesis was correct.

--P.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Michael H Goldhaber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Phil's post suggests but does not state that Rosenberg does not actually do
> direct work on bio-weapons but rather analyzes their implications as an
> outsider. That is certainly a very useful role. Is it correct, does anyone
> know?
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Michael Balter wrote:
>
> Thanks for this, Phil. In fact, many academics working on bioterrorism and
> general terrorism issues have a different perspective from that of the Bush
> administration.
>
> MB
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Phil Gasper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Purchase College is part of the SUNY system. Rosenberg is a research
>> professor in the Environmental Studies program (she's also described
>> as a molecular biologist on some websites). Her research interests
>> "focus on implications of the use of biological and nuclear weapons;
>> bioterrorism", but she doesn't seem to have a website of her own. She
>> is attacked on the far-right website freerepublic.com as a "tenured
>> Marxist activist" because she argued early on that the anthrax attacks
>> were an inside job, not the work of Islamic terrorists. --Phil
>>
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