Bad Blood II... Re: A funny NYT editorial about "sound medical judgment"
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Bad Blood II... Re: A funny NYT editorial about "sound
medical judgment"
Date: Dec 26, 2009 7:59 AM
http://www.actionlyme.org/CDC_DOCUMENTS_1990.htm
No ^^^ ELISA requirement in the 1990 standard;
it says to perform serial or sequential
Western Blots to look for new IgM antibodies.
CDC wanted people to get neurological Lyme
and either die or become disabled by it.
It was the real thing Tuskegee 'Bad Blood" II.
NEXT QUESTION WE NEED TO ASK THE CDC:
1/100 kids with autism?
1/9 children are "Special Needs?
And that's not a plague?
Kathleen M. Dickson
-----Original Message-----
>From: KMDickson <janmu...@earthlink.net>
>Sent: Dec 26, 2009 7:52 AM
>Subject: A funny NYT editorial about "sound medical judgment"
>
>
>EDITORIAL BELOW
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>
>Isn't it strange for the NYTimes to
>be writing an editorial about the
>"bitch that got over the NYT's wall,"
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes
>when it comes to sound medical
>judgment, about "sound medical judgment?"
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICOCHRON.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAIN_PERMANENT.htm
>All of IDSA's own data says Lyme is
>a permanent infection of the brain
>and Relapsing Fever, *and* IDSA said we
>needed a failed HIV/tuberculosis vaccine for
>this spirochetal infection that
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
>"never becomes a disease." The NYTimes
>never interviewed the CT Attorney General
>about this, IDSA's own data that said Lyme
>was permanent, and also that IDSA never
>agreed with Steere's new standard:
http://www.actionlyme.org/HOW_RICO_WILL_BE_CHARGED.htm
>(search for Gary Wormser^^)
>
>Nor did the NYTimes ever mention that
>the CDC clearly *LIED* to the public about
>whether or not a high-cut-off Lyme arthritis
>ELISA was necessary to have a "case" of Lyme?
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/STEERE_IN_EUROPE.htm
>
>Now the NYTimes is all high-and-mighty over
>medical ethics and "ideology over sound
>medical judgment." This is a first for them.
>I wonder what moved them to pretend to take
>a position on ideology and emotions over facts.
>
>They talk about HIV.
>You know, the thing with the failed LYMErix
>vaccine as a failed HIV vaccine, and over which
>Anthony Fauci had to admit he was a complete idiot.
>
>These people are too much.
>
>They're as bad as the CDC.
>
>Oh, what am I saying?
>
>NYTimes Science Tuesday writer, Lawrence
>Altman, is a CDC officer.
>
>
>Kathleen M. Dickson
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>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26sat3.html
Editorial
>Righting a Wrong, Much Too Late
>
>Published: December 25, 2009
>
>Public health advocates held an understandably muted celebration when President Obama signed a bill repealing a 21-year-old ban on federal financing for programs that supply clean needles to drug addicts.
>
>The bill brought an end to a long and bitter struggle between the public health establishment — which knew from the beginning that the ban would cost lives — and ideologues in Congress who had closed their eyes to studies showing that making clean needles available to addicts slowed the rate of infection from H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, without increasing drug use.
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>But the shift in policy comes too late for the tens of thousands of Americans — drug addicts and their spouses, lovers and unborn children — who have died from AIDS and AIDS-related diseases. Many of these people would not have become infected had Congress followed sound medical advice and embraced the use of clean needles.
>
>Congress voted to withhold federal money in 1988, at the very height of the AIDS epidemic. Back then, life in AIDS epicenters like New York and San Francisco had begun to resemble one long funeral, made all the more tragic by the fact that most of the dead were young people who should have had many more years to live.
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>Fortunately, not all state and local governments followed the federal lead. In New York, for example, AIDS researchers who pioneered needle exchange programs on the Lower East Side and elsewhere managed over several years to cut the infection rates among addicts by about 80 percent by supplying them with clean syringes and enrolling them in drug treatment programs. But even results like these failed to move Congress in a direction that would have better protected public safety.
>
>The doctors and outreach workers who labored in the early struggle against AIDS breathed a sigh of relief when President Obama announced his support for ending the ban. But earlier this year, when bills were introduced to lift it, some lawmakers tried to covertly reinstate the ban through deviously worded riders.
>
>It’s good to see that Congress has finally come to its senses. But elected officials on both sides of the aisle will need to show considerably more courage the next time shortsighted lawmakers try to substitute political ideology for sound medical judgment.
>
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