"They've been tested." By whom, GUEST?

A pretty extensive search of the internet shows a lot of articles and comments on this matter. But they all trace back to a guy named Ken Welch. He's all over the internet, and almost everything said about chemtrails by other people refer to stuff that Welch has written and posted.

You say, "It's nearly as baffling as the people who look at the same scientific evidence I do and conclude it's just a 'conspiracy theory.' But those folks are just cowards."

Not so. So far, I have seen no "scientific evidence," only unsupported assertions; assertions I have heard, off and on with variations, for decades. This claim that contrails are actually "chemtrails" has been around for decades (started not long after the first jets went into widespread service), and seems to fit in very well with, and indeed were—and are—promulgated by the same kind of people who maintain that there was a mysterious rifleman on the grassy knoll, that the government is covering up what they really know about UFOs, that the government is trying to turn our brains to mush and make us obedient slaves by putting fluoride in our drinking water, that the government is. . . .   Well, you get the idea. There is nothing "cowardly" about being skeptical of these kinds of assertions when there is no actual believable evidence to back them up.

What I want to know, GUEST, is who tested the precipitate from these alleged "chemtrails?" Two or more established scientific laboratories who came to the same conclusions independently? Some kid with a chemistry set? Or is it just speculations and assumptions growing out of a paranoid personality?

And I also want to know who Ken Welch is. Former intelligence agent? Government whistle-blower? An obscure op-ed writer seeking notoriety? Some paranoiac who spends most of his time hiding under his bed? Who is he and what qualifications does he have to back up what he says?

And, for that matter—who are YOU?

Don Firth