On 6/9/2011 12:24 AM, Dennis Erlich wrote:
> John, I'm sure that more children are killed or injured by not wearing
> their seatbelts than by prone restraint. But that doesn't mean I want
> to see bunches of seat-belt post in ars either.
Fair enough. But I am not aware of an organized anti-seatbelt lobby
claiming that children will be saved by not wearing their seatbelts.
As I said, I have direct experience with abusive, credentialed
quacks. My abusive credentialed quack had organized naive families
to lobby for government funding to financially support his abuse.
Many people like Monica tried to raise public awareness, and to goad
the health authorities into taking action to protect the victims of
his abuse, but to no avail. By a complete fluke, I happened to work
with the abusive credentialed quack, and I also happened to be a
casual acquaintance of one of the closest advisers to the provincial
premier of the day. I contacted my acquaintance, who knew me well
enough to take my descriptions of the abuse I witnessed seriously,
and the abusive credentialed quack was soon out of business.
But *many* people who should have been much more able than I to get
the government's ear tried and failed to do so. It was *only*
because of the fluke of a personal connection that I succeeded where
they had tried and failed. If not for that fluke, I believe the
quack would have built a large and lucrative business that did
little more than abuse vulnerable people behind closed doors, beyond
the scrutiny of the authorities and with the naive support of
desperate families.
Unfortunately, this is not an exceptional story. Abusive
credentialed quacks prey on desperate families and vulnerable
individuals. The stories are as disgusting as the worst of the cult.
Remember Raoul Lopez?
There is a whole government-sanctioned "health-care" industry in the
US and Canada which consists of people like Federici exploiting
desperate families of vulnerable individuals. There is a
particularly disgusting subgroup that preys on the severely
autistic. Some search terms that will give you a taste are "Matthew
Isreal", BRI, IARET. People like Israel are attempting to gain broad
government sanction and funding for something they call "Applied
Behavior Analysis". The presentation of ABA is quite benign. In some
cases ABA might even be useful, I don't know enough about it to say
that this is never the case. But at the end of the day ABA is the
justification for atrocities such as this. http://tinyurl.com/65alj4t
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=231327
Please don't misunderstand me. I am not defending Monica personally,
nor am I taking her side in your quarrel with her. But I am
supporting the stance she has taken against Federici. You obviously
don't have to agree. But, just as you are free to express your views
on the matter, I am free to express mine. And I am quite sure we
agree about that :)
John
