In 2004, for example, we asked their public relations department whether or not Lilly uses petroleum to make some of their products. Petroleum no doubt contains many thoroughly unorthodox molecules and it is also extremely heterogeneous.
So far Lilly hasn't cared to enlighten us on that point. We think they could do themselves a favor, as far as their long-term development goes, and also score some points with the governemnt by taking a detailed look at our work.
Irradiated mail, a final suggestion:
Obviously people in government need to be able to communicate with the public. So here's our suggestion. Several documents on this web site were scanned electronically in order to be available to those visiting our site. The earliest scanned document was from 1973.
Looking at our scanned documents the reader can verify that they don’t contain any “Ratheristic anomalies.” That is, our 1981 letter from Reader’s Digest--in our article about Alan Greenspan--doesn’t have any word processing attributes.
That's because it was, in fact, produced on a real typewriter in 1981.
So it seems one can get a fairly good idea of the authenticity of most documents by examining electronically scanned images.
Perhaps a system of scanners should be set up in public libraries and/or post offices that would allow taxpayers to send letters and copies of documents to those employees of the federal government whose mail is currently being irradiated.
Because the Dan Rathers of this world are never at rest, there's always some possibility of fraud. But that's true no matter what the means of communication might be.
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