History Channel Anthrax Show

I'm watching the History Channel's show on the Anthrax attack on the US after 9/11 and noticed something I never saw. The letters, thought to be sent by an unknown well-trained US biological weapon engineer, couldn't have been written by someone trained in microbiology. The word penicillin was spelled wrong. In the letters, the writer spelled it penecillin. Does this sound like the misstake that a scientist, trained in microbiology, and undoubtedly used the word before would make?

This would point towards one of two scenarios. One, the writer was poorly educated, or not educated in a science or medical background. Secondly, the writer may be a foriegner. Although other evidence points to the writer being from the US (date usage), this piece of evidence is hard to discount.

Just wondering if anybody else noticed this.

It could be simply that the attacker wanted to throw it way off so made the spelling error on purpose.

[edit on 24-10-2004 by evecasino]

Oops, I missspelled the writers version of penicillin. In the letters, it was written penacilin.

couldn't he have spelled it wrong on purpose to point the blame away from him? like if someone would say "it couldn't be him, he didn't spell penicilin right"

just a thought...

my point exactly

See, I don't think so. Scientists have an ego, and I couldn't see one knowingly misspelling a word so common to their livelyhood. If the writer was deliberately trying to throw off investigators, why use a substance that only 40-50 people in the world know how to refine to such a degree.

[edit on 10/24/2004 by SHADOW266]

Here is an interesting assessment of the anthrax attack, including some plausable reasons for the attack.

www.rense.com...