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So was there a definitive denial of the initial statement of Salisbury medic Stephen Davies in The Times that the pair was _not_ poisoned by a nerve agent? Othe
by flatfilefan 8y ago
So was there a definitive denial of the initial statement of Salisbury medic Stephen Davies in The Times that the pair was _not_ poisoned by a nerve agent? Other media reported about an opioid overdose, probably fentanyl.
- cpncrunch 8y agoNot sure where you're getting your news from, but it was confirmed by the UK government that it was a nerve agent. I can't see any news stories about fentanyl, so I suspect that was an initial suspicion before they investigated further. I'm not sure what your reasons would be for posting that here...
- flatfilefan 8y agoLook for Stephen Davis letter to The Times on 14th of March that seems have never been explicitly denied. Government was already caught disseminating lies and half-truth on this, thus the doubt.
- flatfilefan 8y agoAh, and the reason posting this question is that “novichok” shouldn’t be active such a long time after people prepared it in March, if it was novichok indeed (if the whole thing is not a hoax anyway). So this second case makes no sense with novichok but with opioids, on the other hand, it does.
- cpncrunch 8y agoIt remains active and dangerous for years. Youre clearly a troll.
- flatfilefan 8y agoI was referring to some article I read but actually it seems there is no easily available information on its persistency. “Persistency Novichok agents have a higher density than air and will therefore tend to collect in low-lying areas. No other information is available regarding their persistency.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/novichok-agent https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/novichok-a... Do you care to share your sources?