Thread by @thomasphipps

@aaronjmate Oh gosh @aaronjmate, like your entire briefing, this is incredibly weak. I’ll respond clearly for you with a series of tweets…

@aaronjmate 1) You claimed the IIT “just simply overlooked” the issue of foaming at the mouth. I pointed out this was untrue and provided you with the page number and section of the report. By reading it out said section you proved yourself you had lied in your original intervention

@aaronjmate 2) In trying to defend your lie, you attempt to argue that on the very page of the IIT report that confirms your lie, the IIT cites a scientific source that contains no reference to the word ‘foam’. I’ll explain how this exposes you further…

@aaronjmate 3) For those still following, the source Aaron and the IIT cite is CW White and JG Martin “Chlorine Gas Inhalation Human Clinical Evidence of Toxicity and Experience in Animal Models” It’s a very detailed study of lung injury as a result of attack by chlorine gas

@aaronjmate 4) You’re right though, the source doesn’t mention ‘foam’. This is because this is not how clinicians refer to this symptom - they refer to ‘fulminating pulmonary edema’ I know you said in your intervention that you’re not a scientist, but come on, do some basis research…

@aaronjmate 5) The article describes pulmonary edema at length - funnily enough it’s a classic symptom of exposure to highly irritant gases such as chlorine. By the way, you probably didn’t notice, but this article also cites two further articles…

@aaronjmate 6) The 1st, Rupali Das & Paul Blanc ‘Chlorine gas exposure and the lung: a review’ explores ‘speed of onset’ (something I know you’ve also had concerns about). It finds that studies showing exposure to concentrations exceeding 2000ppm results immediate respiratory arrest…

@aaronjmate 7) The 2nd, Van Sickle et al ‘Acute health effects after exposure to chlorine gas released after a train derailment’ finds 3 deaths in the study showed ‘frothy fluid, reddened mucosa, and purplish red and firm parenchyma - just like the victims of the CW attack in #Douma

@aaronjmate 8) So, your excuse for your lie only serves to expose further how weak your research is. Turns out the rigorously sourced and evidenced @OPCW #IIT report stands up to scientific scrutiny - who’d have thought it!

@aaronjmate @OPCW 9) You are either a very bad researcher, or in your desperation to shill for Russian and Syrian dictators you ignore convenient facts… My money is on the latter, we know how close you are to the Syrian government

washingtonbabylon.com/eleven-minutes…

@aaronjmate @OPCW 10) PS - sorry I didn’t stay to hear you respond. I had no desire to listen while you and the Syrian rep were provided a further chance by your Russian hosts to show such contempt for the thousands of Syrians murdered by the Assad regime with these horrific #chemicalweapons