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On the one hand, award-winning MIT professor emeritus Ted Postol's study on Syria chemical weapons allegations is published in a peer-reviewed journal out of Princeton; on the other, an Atlantic Council-backed site & Twitter trolls w/ no credentials are really mad about it.🤔
I am continually amused by people who dismiss veteran, credentialed, accomplished, informed voices like say, Ted Postol or Sy Hersh, while simultaneous claiming to be above "narratives" and uplifting voices w/ obvious conflicts-of-interest & no accomplishments/credentials.
Journalism-wise, it is also fascinating to witness how easily it is to marginalize or ignore expert voices when they conflict w/ fashionable narratives, like with Syria. Their loss is my gain: you can see The Grayzone's interviews with Ted Postol here: thegrayzone.com/tag/theodore-p…
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