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No Anthrax Anywhere - anybody remember "Young Frankenstein?"

By Andrew Cochran

So much for this story...a mistake at a DOD lab resulted in false positives at two DOD facilities, and tests at the Washington V Street postal facility are all negative. Someone at the DOD lab confused a sample of actual anthrax kept for comparisons with the Pentagon mailroom sample. Reminds me of that scene in the hilarious Mel Brooks film "Young Frankenstein" where Marty Feldman, as Igor, explains to Gene Wilder's Dr. Frankenstein, that he picked up the brains in a jar with a label marked..."Abby something...Abby...Normal...I'm almost sure that was the name." Now we know - Igor LIVES!

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