Dear Visitors:
I'm all for truly sound science and most certainly for integrity in science. How I wish it were
there in the industries producing our consumer products and releasing them to market
without genuinely substatiating safety! Unfortunately, those who doth protest too much,
me thinks (to paraphrase the Bard), wouldn't know science -- 'sound science,' or the
'integrity of science,' etc. -- if it came up and bit them on their back side.
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Articles may no longer be available but in most cases, you do have titles, authors and dates so
you can pursue the subject on your own, should you care too. Many organizations have articles
up on the web for a few weeks and then make them available for a charge. Alas. -- barb
- 20/20 - ABC, John Stossel - JUNK
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Absolute Non-Scents
The Hittman Chronicle
By Dave Hitt
"... and even kicked out of school. ..."
"And the worst part of it is that MCS does not exist.
"The human body simply doesn't work that way. Exposure to toxins tends to raise
resistance, not lower it. ..."
Prevarication, mendacity, deceitfulness, industry hype, untruths, lies. Take your pick, but I
wish he'd get his facts straight! Synthetic scents contain known irritants and sensitizers as well
as known and suspected carcinogens (capable of causing cancer), teratogens (capable of adversely
affecting developing embryos and fetuses) and neurotoxins (adversely affects brain and central
nervous system). These petrochemical concoctions (think hydrocarbons, not protein-based
allergens), sold as sexual attractants have NO place in a schools, healthcare facilities and other
workplaces, nor other public venues where they can adversely pollutge the air for all. And then
about exposure to toxins . . . Thresholds do lower. People are warned about adverse health events
suffered when chemical tolerance lowers. WOW, is this guy dangerous! I suggest he, and
everyone else begins reading the
NIOSH POCKET GUIDE TO CHEMICAL HAZARDS.
Talk about your industry apologist! This guy fits nicely into the industry's hip pocket. -- barb
http://www.davehitt.com/june00/sents.html
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
The following article and editorial appeared in the Sept. 1, 1998 issue of the American
Family Physician journal. Such notables as Ronald Gots and Stephen Barrett with the
title of doctor, are quoted as giving the "truth" about chemical injury. Indeed. They are simply
proclaiming the chemical industry mantra.
See Environmental Illness Briefing Paper, the 1990 industry call-to-arms.
AAFP, for shame!
Just because there has not been evidence of even adequate testing before marketing of commonly
used synthetic chemical products, including our ubiquitous fragrances, doesn't mean that
they don't have the capability of causing problems to the respiratory system, the brain and
nervous systems . . .
Synthetic fragrances contain known and suspected carcinogens, teratogens and neurotoxins.
Where are the studies for their possible role in rising rates of central nervous system diseases like
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's; for the skyrocketing rates in asthma, in autism, in ADD?
Where are the studies for the possible role played in the high rates of reproductive and fetal
development problems by these products that are concoctions of petrochemicals? Where are the
studies of fragrances as a possible link to escalating cancer rates? And, considering just
the fragrance chemicals as irritants and sensitizers, where are the studies regarding indoor
air pollution and its effect upon soaring "UNEXPLAINED" asthma rates for people of all ages,
especially kids, Hispanics, African Americans, and our elderly? (Kids, Hispanics and African
Americans are targeted by the industry for sales; our elderly are subjected to these toxic
pollutants in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes. Heavy reliance upon
synthetic scents does not mean the environment is clean, it is even more polluted by the
flagrant use of fragrances.
Indeed, fall 2004, the fragrance industry admited: "Fragrance products may give the air a more
pleasant -- THAT IS DEBATABLE! -- smell (or no smell at all), but they cannot clean the air."
[Emphasis added.] RIFM RESPIRATORY SAFETY PROGRAM
http://www.rifm.org/WHITE%20PAPER%20IAQ%20DIsola%20v2%2004082004.htm
The industry's lack of adequate testing, and the lack of regulation by the government agencies
charged with protecting public health, does not mean the already chemically injured are
psychosomatic. I think it is high time to listen to the already chemically injured. By ignoring
us and or stultifying us for years, we've only seen our numbers escalate. That is NOT indiciative
of "mass hysteria," but it may well be viewed as a dereliction of duty by those in regulatory
positions. It is high time to put behind you, the "Never Measure, Never Manage" philosophy.
AAFP, by publishing such a biased article you are doing a disservice to the public -- both those
who are already living with the effects of adverse events due to chemial poisonings by
commonly used consumer products and to those who do not yet recognize the cause of their
often insidious diseases and illnesses. Remember, one does not have to be the primary user
to be adversely affected by these toxic products with their volatile organic compounds, which
are recognized air and water pollutants. For more iformation on the toxins found in scents, see
FDA Petition. -- barb
- Editorial: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
ROY L. DEHART, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"... There is activist litigation against manufacturers of carpet, paint, household cleaning
products, etc. These multimillion dollar lawsuits have been curtailed by the 1993
U.S. Supreme Court decision, Daubert versus Merrell Dow, which has given trial judges
authority to exclude unscientific testimony.9 This decision has been used successfully
in ruling that multiple chemical sensitivity is not a recognized clinical entity. However,
this ruling does not exclude the possibility that the constellation of symptoms will
reappear under another name. ..."
What mainstream medical doctor receives adequate hours of training in recognizing and
diagnosing illnesses clearly associated with modern toxic products, like pesticides? Another
regurgitation of the chemical industry's call-to-arms, their 1990 EI Briefing Paper. -- barb
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980901ap/edit.html
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome
MICHAEL K. MAGILL, M.D., and ANTHONY SURUDA, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980901ap/magill.html
Oh, yes, blame it on stress or anxiety . . . but just don't ever bother to look at the proliferation
of petrochemical-derived products that include perfumes, pesticides and pharmaceuticals. -- barb
- Actions against EI doctors
You all better start thinking this is serious, because it is! If you can contribute to the medical
defense funds of these doctors, please do so. If there is such a fund, that info will be available
through the links given below.
Also, do read The Chemical Manufacturers Association's 1990 Environmental Illness
Briefing Paper. It is available in the BEST of the Reactor, 1985 - 1995, and online at
http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm
Seems to me, this paper, this call to arms, set the stage for actions taken against EI doctors and us,
the already chemically injured. -- barb
Stuff Happens! to great doctors . . . and they've intention of having it happen to YOURS!
Witch Hunt as defined by American Heritage dictionary
An investigation carried out ostensibly to uncover subversive activities
but actually used to harass and undermine those with differing views.
I have put links up to doctors I've come to learn about.
If you know of others, with links to information about
their plight, please let me know. -- barb
- The Progress in Medicine Foundation (Dr. Sinaiko)
(AKA: The Medical Defense Fund)
http://www.treatmentchoice.com/sinaiko.html
- NEW Documents -- including censored materials
http://www.treatmentchoice.com/news_index.html
- American Association for Health Freedom
Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Robert Sinaiko, M.D.
"The California Medical Board has placed Dr. Robert Sinaiko, a well-respected
San Francisco physician, on five years probation (after trying unsuccessfully to
revoke his license for several years) for using so-called alternative therapies to
treat multiple chemical sensitivities, allergies, ADHD, Candida and chronic fatigue.
After many years of battling the Board for his right to use nonstandard approaches,
he has filed an appeal challenging the Board's action as an unlawful restriction of
his right to practice sound medicine. We filed an amicus brief stating, among other
things, that if the Board's decision is upheld, it will define as "unprofessional conduct"
the provision of nutritional therapy for ADHD, and effectively make prescription of
Ritalin required treatment for this condition. ..."
http://www.apma.net/legal-amicus.htm
- Healing Arts- Alternative Medicine Bill
"Problem: Under the current California law physicians are required to practice
within the accepted "standard of practice¾. Standards of practice are not defined within
the law, they are considered to be what most of the individuals within the profession do.
"The investigators for the Medical Board, physician consultants for the Board who review
the discipline cases, the staff attorneys of the Attorneys General¼s Office who do the
legal action for the Board and the Administrative Judges, general interpret „The
standard of practice¾ as conventional and practiced by most physicians. ..."
http://www.citizenshealth.org/alternativebill.htm
- Medical Freedom in California Hangs in the Balance
From Dr. Robert Jay Rowen's Second Opinion December 2001.
"When the parents of a hyperactive child came to see Dr. Sinaiko to see if he could help
their child, Dr. Sinaiko didn't realize his life was about to change forever.
"Instead of turning to Ritalin (a Class 2 amphetamine), the conventional treatment of
choice, Dr. Sinaiko chose to use less-toxic nutritional and allergy treatments. In most
states, that would be completely legal. But Dr. Sinaiko lives in California. ..."
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Lhealthfreedom2.htm
- To The White House Commission
on Complementary & Alternative Medicine Policy
Presented September 8, 2000
"For the past 16 years, my sister and I have been patients of Dr. Robert Sinaiko.
He was an allergist and immunologist in the San Francisco Bay Area until October
of last year. His story exemplifies how our access to Alternative and Progressive
physicians and treatments has been denied. ... "
http://www.mindspring.com/~adaughaus/WHCCAMspeech_kes.html
- WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON
COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE POLICY
Town Hall Meeting, San Francisco; September 8, 2000
"Dear Commission Members:
"I am Dr. Deane Hillsman, speaking for the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD).
"The UAPD is generally neutral on the broadly defined question of "Alternative
Medicine," though indeed some of our members are interested in this rapidly emerging
area, and some practice to a various extent components of Alternative Medicine.
"We join with the Alternative Medicine movement with a common concern about forces
in California that are inhibiting innovation in health care, and that perhaps are
reflective of situations elsewhere. The focal point of our concerns is the recent disciplinary
action taken by the Medical Board of California (MBC) against Dr. Robert Sinaiko.
This prominent case has certainly provided a clear and disturbing example of MBC
prosecution intent. ..."
http://www.mindspring.com/~adaughaus/WHCCAMspeech_dh.html
- Series of Documents Relating to Reforms of the Medical Board of California
Letter to Julia DeAngelo-Fellmeth, Adm Director:
" ... Historically the Board has always taken aggressive action against "unorthodox"
practitioners but it seems to have become even bolder in the instance of Dr. Sinaiko.
I recently read detailed information about the case as well as the opening and closing
remarks of the prosecutor on Dr. Sinaiko¼s web site. The only logical explanation
I can image is that the staff of the enforcement division genuinely doesn¼t understand
the scientific principles as they pertain to medical care, especially in the area of the "art"
of medicine, which almost always precedes the "science" of medicine. The other alternative
is that Dr. Sinaiko was fingered in one of those closed meeting sponsored by the
"Quack Busters" group out of Loma Linda Hospital which the DAG staff attends on
along with representatives from the FDA and national pharmaceutical council. ... "
http://www.collegeofmidwives.org/legal_legislative01/%20Julia%20D%2098%20cpil.htm
- Zane R. Kime MD
Dr. Kime's story, and death, told through the film documentary (in the making).
The Tomato Effect
By his daughter, Faun Kime
http://www.rabble-rouser.com/about.html
- Dr. Jozef Krop, Canada
- Dr. Walt Stoll
In his own words. -- barb
http://askwaltstollmd.com/license.html
- Ronald Wempen, M.D.
Environmental Medical Center of Orange County
http://www.medical-library.net/doctors/dr_wempen/_index_.html
- The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI)
http://www.acaai.org/
NOTE: ACAAI's Life Quality test leaves out any reference to fragrances. However,
it does ask if when you do simple chores, do you have trouble breathing or do you cough?
And under "Triggers," it does state: "My asthma gets worse and worse when I'm
around tobacco smoke, fumes or strong odors.
But, how many people use fragrance products for "simple chores" and never figure out
it's the fragrances that make them have trouble breathing or that cause their
cough ... or gives them headaches, or rhinitis or ?And how many people really
associate fragrance products with "fumes or strong odors" -- or a better question:
How many doctors associate "fumes or strong odors" with the ubiquitous fragrances
in personal care and cleaning/maintenance products?
Another complaint of mine ... and I did write .... is that their idea of "accessible
locations" is a far cry from reality. By screening as they are, they automatically
eliminate a large body of people who are already chemically sensitive and have
enough sense to avoid public places such as malls, civic centers, health fairs and
even places of worship. Please inform ACAAI that malls, health fairs, stores, even
doctors offices and churches are not "accessible locations" for those of us who are
already living with chemical-induced asthma. -- barb
"Nationwide Asthma Screenings Help Americans Breathe Easier"
"Free asthma screenings will be performed at shopping malls, civic centers,
health fairs and other accessible locations throughout the country. During a
screening, adults who are experiencing breathing problems complete a
20-question Life Quality (LQ) Test developed by ACAAI for the program."
http://allergy.mcg.edu/lifequality/nasp.html
Life Quality Test
"If you or your child has been told you have asthma, or even if you have
occasional problems taking a good, deep breath, this simple test from the
American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI) may help
improve your LIFE QUALITY (or "LQ"). Just answer these 20 questions
and decide whether a quick, free phone call could lead to a better LQ for
you."
http://allergy.mcg.edu/lifequality/index.html
The Kids' Asthma Check
In the kids' check list, they again refer to "strong odors," but how many kids or
their parents would think of even mild fragrance and pesticide odors as being
capable of causing or triggering asthma, and yet they can! -- barb
http://allergy.mcg.edu/lifequality/kac2.html or http://allergy.mcg.edu/lifequality/kac1.html
But look, there is hope! ACAAI recognizes that fragrances in personal care
and cleaning/maintenance products can and do cause rhinitis. See their "public website,"
Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Online. This info is also where it really belongs, on EHN's
The Word IS Out! -- barb
- Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Online
http://allergy.mcg.edu/
- "What triggers vasomotor rhinitis?
"Irritants that can trigger vasomotor rhinitis include cigarette smoke, strong odors and
fumes including perfume, hair spray, other cosmetics, laundry detergents, cleaning
solutions, ... "
http://allergy.mcg.edu/Advice/rhin.html
- American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
ACSH stories appear throughout ... use your browser's find command and key in ACSH.
One thing that's bad about this organization is its name sounds so good. But then, that follows
the pattern of industry front organizations. I can't count the number of people in power
positions who have gotten all their "MCS education" from this site and others like it.
One-sided information gathering is never an "education."
Sites such as this are ruinous to the people (all ages, races,genders) who already live with chemical
injury. For while we are trying to educate others so we may live, work, get an education, enter
healthcare facilities without being harmed, worship, use public transit, play . . . I repeat, LIVE!
The Gotses and Barretts of the world do great harm in stultifying those of us who live with
chemical injury. It's not as if we went out looking for a good dose of chemical injury . . . it came to
us, unbidden.
The public has a right to know about the chemicals they so mindlessly apply to their bodies and
breathe into their bodies, and the effects of these superfluous, toxic chemicals upon their health
and the health of their children, grandchildren, pets, colleagues, friends, and the planet at large.
They'll not get that knowledge from industry front organizations. -- barb
- American Family Physician; Dec 15, 2000
Mass Psychogenic Illness: Role of the Individual Physician.
Author/s: Timothy F. Jones,M.D.,"... is a medical epidemiologist with the Tennessee
Department of Health and assistant clinical professor of preventive medicine at
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville. ..."
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3225/12_62/67940114/print.jhtml
There is certainly a flip side to the information presented above. Use the info in the following
"In Opposition to Journalistic Errors" to educate your local media. Also write
to the papers carrying the NEJM article, giving them the full picture. It is easy to stultify, to debase,
with only a partial story. -- barb
Hysteria article angers school officials
The Tennessean
By Anne Paine / Tennessean Staff Writer; Monday, 2/7/00
http://www.tennessean.com/sii/00/02/07/warrenair07.shtml
"In Opposition to Journalistic Errors"
by Nancy McFadden, BURNT; Mon, 24 Jan 2000
includes the letter written by Thomas W. Hatfield,
Supervisor, Department of Plant Maintenance
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/nothystr.htm
"Conflict at New England Journal of Medicine"
Boston Globe Saturday December 27, 1997- front page Web Version
Medical journal is hit by another conflict
By Larry Tye, Globe Staff, 12/27/97
"The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which has a conflict-of-interest policy that its editor calls 'the tightest in the business,' is again having to explain how that policy went askew.
"The trouble this time was a review in last month's journal that panned a book alleging that environmental chemicals are fueling an epidemic of cancers. The reviewer was the medical director at chemical giant W.R. Grace & Co., but readers were not told that.
" 'We should have recognized that W.R. Grace was a conflict of interest, but unfortunately the person who handled it didn't recognize that,' Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer, the journal's editor-in-chief, said yesterday. ''They didn't put together that W.R. Grace was a major chemical company.
" 'There will be a complete explanation in the journal in the next three to four weeks,' he added.
"The error might have aroused little interest if the New England Journal was not the world's most esteemed medical publication - and if similar lapses had not happened before. ..."
http://www.cqs.com/nejmrevs.htm
- American Medical News
"Doctors debate 'chemical sensitivity' diagnosis"
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_99/hlta0809.htm
- Apple Scented Products
- Apples for Health
Enhance Your Work Day
They recommend:
"Enhance Your Work Day
"Keep a bottle of your favorite fragrance on hand when you need a boost of
confidence. Fragrance has been shown to elevate your mood. Pleasant
fragrances can contribute to office harmony, even allowing for a more friendly
resolution to situations of conflict.
"Cure those Monday morning blues with a spritz of a lemon scent. When you
find yourself in an afternoon slump, spray a peppermint or citrus scent into the
air or into your palms and perk up those sluggish brain cells.
"Losing focus during sustained tasks such as data entry or proof-reading? Get
a quick fix with a whiff of peppermint. When the stress of deadlines and
projects catches up to you, try relaxing with the scents of vanilla or lavender. "
No wonder they are concerned with people "[l]osing focus," synthetic scents are neurotoxins.
Folks, FIRST check with your colleagues and if it is OK with them, use a mint sprig
or a cutting of lavender, if you need a scent boost. Keep it truly personal. Also, leave the toxic
synthetic fragrances for your own home, if you need to use them at all. Why not write to
Apples for Health to educate them about the petrochemicals they are touting?-- barb
http://www.applesforhealth.com/enhance1.html
- Apple-scented Phone Books
- Apple-scented phone books
CNN.com/US; Tuesday, January 7, 2003 Posted: 5:23 PM EST (2223 GMT)
" WENATCHEE, Washington (AP) -- That sweet smell in Wenatchee might
have been kicked up by someone who let his fingers do the walking.
"The 2003 phone books distributed by Hagadone Directories in north-central
Washington are scented with an apple fragrance. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/01/07/offbeat.phonebook.ap/
- Townsfolk smell agriculture on their phone books
Associated Press ...
"... Jim Hail, co-owner and president of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based
Hagadone Directories, said he came up with the scented phone book
idea as a way to mark the company's decade-long presence in the area.
'When we initially talked about it, my staff rolled their eyes,' Hail said.
'Now we're talking about utilizing it in other markets.' ..."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/3576627.html
ATSDR
- Predecisional Draft Report on MCS
http://www.health.gov/environment/mcs/index.htm
- OSHA -Spring 2000 -- OSHA, in its infinite wisdom
(yes, do read sarcasim) links to this report as well as chemical industry fronts and apologists:
Statement of The Interagency Workgroup on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
November 2000
http://www.health.gov/environment/mcs/letter.htm
Spring 2001 -- Comments are posted. Do you get to see all of the public comments? NO.
They summarize our comments but they publish this biased document in whole.
Most MCS groups and activists have soundly renounced the ATSDR report for a variety of valid
reasons. For a look at a few of the public comments, in their entirety, visit EHN's page
Responses to the MCS Report
http://ehnca.org/www/atsdr/atsdrmcs.htm#Rebuttals
April 2003, until ?:
Well, OSHA got rid of its duplicitous statement:
"Control: Because the cause of MCS is not currently known, control methods could only
be
based on unproven theories. MCS is clearly not occupationally related. "
Whatever else I feel is right or wrong with OSHA's new page on MCS, their first reference
under "Other" is to a chemical front organization developed by Ronald Gots MD -- "Environmental
Sensitivities Research Institute." But they top themselves by also referencing, "'Clinical
Ecology - A Critical Appraisal.' California Medical Association Scientific Board Task Force on
Clinical Ecology. (1986). Western Journal of Medicine 144:239-245." As Albert Donnay of
MCS Referral and Resources informs us: "California Medical Association, which adopted a
position paper critical of clinical ecology in 1986, reclassified it as a "historical document only" in
1993." In other words, folks, OSHA seems to be misinforming employers and employees by
virtue of its reference links. Just what is OSHA trying to do here?
http://www.mcsrr.org/factsheets/mcsrecog.html.
I suggest to OSHA that they begin studying sites like EHN's, JAN, MCS R&R, Alison Johnson's,
Fragranced Products Information Network, contact Mary Lamielle . . ., visit ECHO
. . . heck, just go to EHN's page of MCS Links
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/mcs.htm
And, OSHA may want to follow out one of its links to the link of links, which eventually leads to
Allergies: Culprit Could be in Cosmetic Bag
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/3/ALLERGY.AAD.html
Get superfluous fragrance products -- remember that includes pesticides! -- out of the workplace
and you'll improve indoor air AND health! THAT is worker safety, OSHA, and it ties in
beautifully with the concept of Illness and Injury Prevention programs! -- barb
John Balzar
Columnist for the Los Angeles Times
"Busybodies, Inc.: Really, it's for a good cause"
Another article with fragrance industry bias well in place. I am the last to know about Marin
County resturants -- good thing Mr. Balzar informed us through his: "California's Marin
County, of course, has signed up to require perfume and non-perfume seating in restaurants.
An airline can go "peanut-free" because peanuts used by another could make one person
violently ill, yet people requiring fragrance-free accommodation in public venues -- including
on airliners -- are ready targets for ridicule and denigration. Lovely.-- barb
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jun01/balzar_03060201.asp
- Candles
- Chemical Manufacturers Association - CMA
- About TradeSecrets.org
http://www.AboutTradeSecrets.org
- Chemical Industry Archives
A project of the Environmental Working Group
Look what is coming to light! Proof that Stuff Happens! And making sure it has . . . the CMA -- barb
- Department of Justice (DOJ)
Mr. Wodatch wrote in 1995:
"In most circumstances, it would not be 'reasonable' to require an employer to
regulate such personal choices by its employees." And that was in response to a
person asking if the "ADA would require medical care providers to require
their employees to refrain from wearing fragrances when they are providing
services to a person who has multiple chemical sensitivities."
http://www.usdoj.gov:80/crt/foia/tal605.txt
Good grief. Common sense, or the Precautionary Principle, should dictate that fragrance
products have no place in a doctor's office or any other type of healthcare facility. I feel this
opinion is based on the stultifying informaton provided by the chemical industry and its apologists,
not upon any science. Science, which to be sure is in short supply, is nonetheless available . . .
IF one digs. (As evidenced by the information available on this site, EHN's, and that of
Betty Bridges, RN, http://www.fpinva.org. Check the FDA Petition analyses for a start!
EHN - http://www.ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm
or FPIN - http://www.fpinva.org/petition99P1340.htm.) -- barb
- Environmental Illness Briefing Paper, 1990
http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm
- Chirobase and QuackWatch (Stephen Barrett, M.D.)
Also below under QuackWatch. -- barb
http://www.quackwatch.com/index.html
- Chirobase
"A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices"
Operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D.; William T. Jarvis, Ph.D.; Charles E. DuVall Jr., D.C.
http://www.chirobase.org/index.html
- Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET)
by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
http://www.chirobase.org/06DD/naet.html
And, have you ever read Barrett's stultifying "A Closer Look at 'Multiple Chemical Sensitivity'"?
It's right out of the industry's EI Briefing Paper. This info is all industry -- self-serving and
economically driven. That is, until such time as too many people become chemically poisoned
and it starts costing business more money to deal with the employees they've made ill than to
decide to go green -- free of petrochemical-derived fragrances, pesticides and other chemical
industry modern products. Barrett's diatribe is available as a PDF file. Read it. Feel your
outrage and then act upon it by writing to your representative, your senators, your FDA,
your EPA, your CPSC, your ATSDR, YOUR doctors, etc. -- barb
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mcs.pdf
- Competitive Enterprise Institute - CEI
http://www.cei.org/
About CEI
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy
organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and
limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped not
by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own
choices in a free marketplace."
And where their last sentence falls apart is that we are not allowed to make
INFORMED choices as there is little truth in advertising. When it comes
to the fragrance industry, it is UNregulated. Debilitating diseases associated
with environmental illnesses have soared during these past decades with the proliferation
of synthetic fragrances. Come on!
To give you a glimpse at CEI, here are a couple of links to check out. -- barb
http://www.cei.org/about.html
- "More Sorry Than Safe"
by Jonathan H. Adler
http://www.cei.org/UpdateReader.asp?ID=844
- Center for Private Conservation
http://www.cei.org/cpc/index.html
- The Council for Scientific Medicine
- CFIS - Citizens for the Integrity of Science
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- Mea Culpa (Page 1)
If you want to see junk science, you've got it here. -- barb
http://www.cfis.org/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000201.html
- Dean Edell, MD
- A Strange Smell, Mysterious Symptoms: Guess The Diagnosis
January 12, 2000
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=25348
- Do see the rest of the media hysteria caused by the NEJM article
and be sure to read the articles under What Really Happened! below.
- Air Fresheners Really Air Polluters by Dr. Dean (7/1/98)
http://www.healthcentral.com/DrDean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=1192
-
(This topic is listed under The Word Is Out! where it really belong, but I've also
listed it here because I LOVE the juxtaposition with the rest of his "fragrant" comments. -- barb)
- California: A (Chemically) Sensitive State
(August 04, 1999; Original broadcast date: June 28, 1999)
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=13710
- "Chemical Sensitivity: Real Or Imaginary?" (1/27/99)
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=9018
- Fibromyalgia
- Is Fibromyalgia A Pain Messenger Problem? (March 08, 2001)
"Dr. Dean: Now let's make sure that we have the right diseases. There
are a bunch of diseases that are similar and people often get them
mixed up. But fibromyalgia is the one I had been most supportive of
through the years."
Emphasis added. This article becomes a hysterical blast of people living with MCS and CFIDS. -- barb
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanFullTexttopics.cfm?ID=49513&storytype=DeanQuestions
3/11/00 - Edell's, "But fibromyalgia is the one I had been most supportive of through the years,"
just didn't ring true in my mind. In a search on Health Central, under "Dr. Dean Edell" for
"fibromyalgia," I turned up just two other articles. In "Magnet Madness...," fibromyalgia is
barely mentioned. But check out "Is There A Test ...?". I don't see how his statements in that
article are reflective of the statement in his latest on FM, which is really another diatribe
against MCS and Chronic Fatigue ... And my two bits' worth says that, of course, translates to
once again decrying the people who are already chemically injured/poisoned. I'll bet ol' Dean
didn't give a rat's backside about pellagra either -- if he's even heard of it. A search for Pellagra
under Dr. Dean Edell turned up zilch, as did a search for Pellagra under Health Central. -- barb
- Magnet Madness Is Really Placebo Power (September 18, 1997)
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=15140
- Is There A Test For Fibromyalgia? (November 14, 2000)
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=44429
- Halifax Is Making No Scents
June 05, 2000
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=35386&src=n2
- How Can I Get My Chemically-Sensitive Relative Into Therapy? (March 06, 2000)
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=28920
- Malathion: It's Back - To Treat Head Lice
September 09, 1999
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?id=16515
- Why Do You Call People With Chemical Sensitivity Hypochondriacs?
http://www.healthcentral.com/DrDean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13371
- Daubert Decision used against those living with the effects of chemical poisoning
- "Chemical Sensitivity" Claims Vulnerable to Daubert Scrutiny
By Anita Hotchkiss, Chair, Pharmaceutical Department, Porzio Bromberg & Newman
and Linda Pissott Reig, Porzio Bromberg & Newman; May 15, 1998
http://www.pbnlaw.com/PressRoom/chemical.shtml
- USE OF SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL INFORMATION BY THE COURTS:
DAUBERT AND EI/MCS CASES
Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute
Sounds like a name that would be of interest to the MCS community, doesn't it?
Well, it is, but in a negative way. It was another front organization developed by
none other than Ronald Gots of State Farm Insurance infamy. -- barb
http://www.esri.org/courts/use_of_info.html
- DigiScentsTM
"DigiScentsÅis an interactive media company that enables lifelike
and memorable experiences through the digitization and broadcast
of scent."
http://www.digiscents.com/
April 14, 2001 . . . Oakland Tribune, Business, page 1, below the fold:
DigiScents lays off most workers. By Staff writer Brian McClimans. Trust me,
I do NOT rejoice in the fact that workers are laid off. But I do rejoice in the fact
that this business news means we are less likely to suffer this particular
chemical assault today, tomorrow, or the next day . . . . -- barb
- DigiScents Forms Strategic Alliance with Procter & Gamble
http://www.digiscents.com/inside/news/releases/press_05162000.shtml
- Enhance Your Work Day
" Work stress stinking up your day? We have some ideas on how to enhance your
work day. A few smelly steps can make the world a much sweeter place."
http://www.digiscents.com/scentcity/scentuallife/bodysoul/enhance_workday.shtml
- Hey, get a whiff of that software
By Eric Auchard; Reuters; September 7, 2000 9:02 AM PT
" ... agreed to acquire SenseIT, Israeli-based developers of a rival scent-sensing technology...."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2625324,00.html
- iSmell
http://www.digiscents.com/inside/overview/faq.shtml#how
- Scentual Life
http://www.digiscents.com/scentcity/scentuallife/index.shtml
- WiredMagazine
"You've Got Smell!
DigiScent is here. If this technology takes off, it's
gonna launch the next Web revolution"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digiscent.html
- Environmental Illness Briefing Paper, 1990
page 171, Best of the Reactor -- 1985 - 1995, edited by Susan Molloy
http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm
- Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute (ESRI)
Gots resigned and after the State Farm expose, a search of ESRI site turns up nothing on Gots. -- barb
http://www.esri.org/
- Grants Program
http://www.esri.org/research.htm
- Mission and Objectives
http://www.esri.org/purpose.htm
"... So who else is still opposing the diagnosis of Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity? One powerful group is the Environmental
Sensitivities Research Institute established in 1995; it
accepts only corporate members (I tried to join and was
refused!) and its board of directors consists of the major
pesticide producers of North America such as DowElanco,
Monsanto, Proctor & Gamble, and the Cosmetics, Toiletry
and Fragrance Association. The chairman is the CEO of
the pesticide industry association called RISE. ..."
MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
Government and Medical Science Finally Recognize Crippling Effects of MCS
By Helke Ferrie
http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/node/view/112
- FDA - Oversight? Regulation?
- FDA AUTHORITY OVER COSMETICS
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-206.html
The FDA does not regulate the fragrance industry,
but worse, does not even follow the regulations already
on its books to require warning labels on fragrances
released to market without adequate testing. Take time
to write to the FDA after learning about the toxic
chemicals used to create synthetci scents (syn scents?)
http://ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm -- barb
- Ovarian Cancer and Talc Powder - A Sixty-Year Scandal of Informed Neglect
http://www.monitor.net/ovarian/talc.html
- The Virus and the Vaccine
A simian virus known as SV40 has been associated with a number of rare
human cancers. This same virus contaminated the polio vaccine administered to
98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal health officials see little reason for
concern. A growing cadre of medical researchers disagree
by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher; The Atlantic Monthly; February 2000
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm
- FOX News
Have you ever wondered why your local Fox News team ignore your attempt to share
information on chemical poisoning via commonly used modern consumer products? Well, no
need to continue to wonder ... FOX touts Steven Milloy'sJunkScience under Science
and if that ain't JUNK journalism, I don't knw what is! If you feel as strongly as I do, please write to FOX News at:
comments@newsdigital.com-- barb
- Science Index
UPDATE, March 27, 2001: Fox News no longer has a Science Index ... it bounces you to its BRFox Life page and then if you choose to read Milloy, you'll find him under "Views." Good work, folks! -- barb
http://www.foxnews.com/science/index.sml
- Fragrance Use Tips
"Everyone has a personal 'scent circle': approximately an arm's length from the
body. No one should be aware of your fragrance unless he or she steps inside your
"circle." Fragrance should be one of the most subtle, personal messages you send to
those with whom you come in contact."
http://www.fragrance.org/feature_tip_content.html
First, is anyone granted an "arm's length" of space in a theater? In some restaurants? In a
medical facility? In school? At work? On jury duty?
But, given that the industry is suggesting people refrain from loading up on fragrances, they are
giving a mixed message ... at best. The tips go on to tell people to "layer" scents and to apply
them throughout the day. Layering scents and applying throughout the day makes it virtually
impossible to have a "scent circle" that only extends "approximately an arm's length from the
body." That is topped by the vact that we are dealing with volatile organic compounds, whose
very nature is to become one with the air we all breath . . . it's the very nature of the beast!
Lest you think I'm kidding, from their Fragrance Dos and Don'ts page:
" DO ...use fragrance throughout every day. It will increase your feelings of well
being...add a special degree of graciousness to daily living...make life for
you and those around you infinitely more pleasurable and enjoyable."
http://www.fragrance.org/dodont.html
No wonder the chemically sensitive are driven from gainful employment, from education, from
enjoying the theater, opera, movies, a dinner out. . .from HEALTH CARE. And folks, these
are toxic chemicals that in 1986 were identified by the National Academy of Science among
other chemicals to be tested for neurotoxicty. We are still waiting. The industry is still
unregulated and does not have to disclose any information as it is protected by trade secret laws.
And the US FDA does not require warning labels for fragrances released to market without
adequate testing, despite the fact that such a regulation already exists on its books.
What can you, the consumer do?
- Write to the FDA about your adverse reactions to synthetic fragrances.
See "FDA Petition for full contact information and analyses of six popular scents.
http://ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm
- Ask your representative to support a bill introduced by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL), and
co-sponsored by Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV): HR 5238. The Safe Notification
and Information for Fragrances Act has been referred to the House Subcommittee on
Health and Environment. Go into Thomas, key in hr 5238, clidk the search button
and up will pop the information. An alternative is to key in the word "fragrance" in the right box
and click search. "Fragrance" will bring up:
1 . Safe Notification and Information for Fragrances Act
(Introduced in the House)[H.R.5238.IH]
2 . Tampon Safety and Research Act of 1999 (Introduced in the House)[H.R.890.IH]
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
-- barb
- Questionnaire & Answer Guide
'Fumed!
- The Fragrant Door
A classroom door sprayed with perfume -- Blistered!
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/doorjudy.htm
- London To Perfume Subway Stations
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer; Updated 1:29 PM ET April 23, 2001
"...Michelle Mackett, an American based in Germany, was doubtful.
"Some people are allergic to perfume," she pointed out.
London Underground says all the scent's ingredients have been safety tested. Madeleine
has been used in Paris for two years without complaint, an Underground spokeswoman
noted.
London Underground says if the scent proves popular, it will consider introducing it
across the system.
But the Tube - plagued by dingy stations, frequent delays and ferocious rush-hour
overcrowding - needs more than cosmetic changes. London Transport estimates it
needs $575 million a year simply to arrest the decline. ..."
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010423/13/int-britain-subway-scents
- Occupational acute anaphylactic reaction to assault by perfume spray in the face.
by Lessenger JE.; PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11314921&dopt=Abstract
Fumento, Michael (see bio at page bottom - barb)
http://www.fumento.com/
Also see Reason, below. -- barb
- Articles by Michael Fumento
http://www.consumeralert.org/fumento/index.htm
Thoughts from barb: Notice the newspoapers that carry Michael Fumento. How
many of those same newspapers have carried any of the truthful information from/about
those of us who are now living with chemical injury?
But I have an even larger question: How many of our nation's newspapers -- or TV media -- have
carried any of the truthful information about the many preventable Environmental Illnesses?
I also wonder: How many have carried the information regarding EHN's petition currently
before the FDA to declare "misbranded" (the FDA's term) fragrances released to market
without adequatge testing? Have any given full FDA contact information?
Unless the media provides the full, factual information, millions who are adversely affected by
fragrances have not a clue that they can write to the FDA requesting that, at a minimum, the FDA
follow its own regulations already on the books. See FDA Petition
at http://ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm
Our numbers of ill continue to soar -- whether we live with ADD, MCS, GWS, SBS, Asthma,
Migraines, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Chronic Fatigue, Parkinson's ... Cancers. We all
live with Environmental Illness. The medical industry continues to be flummoxed. We continue
to read words of medical industry representatives to the effect: "We just don't understand
these findings." . . . "We need more research." In the meantime, more people of all ages, races,
worldwide, become chemically injured with a variety of symptoms. "Diversity" applies to
illnesses and disabilities also.
I believe our numbers continue to climb because the truth about the toxicity of commonly
used -- highlly advertised -- consumer products adversely affects the research grant and
advertising coffers of the medical and media industries. But, that is coupled with the huge profits
of the chemical pharmaceutical industry -- they sell products that keep folks functioning
for a time. Iatrogenic illnesses and deaths soar, while media coffers are filled with advertising
dollars from commonly used consumer products and the drugs used to feel a little better.
It's the ECONOMY, folks.
But, where is the cure? We find it is in avoiding, to the extent possible, the superfluous toxins
in our consumer products. And that leads to demands for access and accommodation. To learn
of those gains, do visit EHN's page, Take Heart! at http://www.ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/takheart.htm -- barb
- Another Gulf War Syndrome Fad/Theory Fails the Test
by Michael Fumento; March 20, 1997
http://www.consumeralert.org/fumento/gulffad.htm
- MICHAEL FUMENTO: 'Protecting' kids right off the playground
Scripps Howard News Service
Published: August 29, 2003, 06:45:25 PM PDT; Modesto Bee
" The working group [Environmental Working Group] in May released a typical
activist group pseudo-scientific 'study' with the catchy title 'Poisoned Playgrounds,'
demanding that all arsenate-treated wood on playgrounds be ripped out faster than
the proverbial woodchuck chucks. ..."
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/opinions/story/982017p-6892185c.html
Appropriately released for April Fools Day by American Specator; April 2000 --
Scents And SENSELESSNESS
- Scents and Senselessness
By Michael Fumento>
"The American Spectator, April 2000; Copyright 2000 by The American Spectator
"The Anti-Fragrance Movement has its nose out of joint ‚ and sweet-smelling Canada is leading the way. ... "
http://www.fumento.com/scents.html
Also at: http://www.nycclash.com/scents.html
Fumento and company's articles are available online through Fumento's site.
If these spin-off stories don't prove that errors compound, I don't know what does. Part of the
flawed premiss begins with the fallacious and relatively recent article in the New England
Journal of Medicine. See http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/stufhaps.htm#New
to link out to NEJM's abstract and spinoff stories. But, the damning and damaging to the MCS
community "stuff" began a decade ago when the Chemical Manufacturers Association published
their Environmental Illness Briefing Paper -http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm
See for yourself. -- barb
- Environmentalists, Activists, Doomsayers and Other Alarmists
The one article I've read by Fumento is the one in which he butchered facts right and left --
Senselessness About Scents, above, proving he suffers from senselessness about scents. -- barb
http://fumento.com/suenviron.html
- Gulf Lore Syndrome
"Why are the Gulf War vets getting sick? You won't find out by reading The New York Times and USA Today. "
By Michael Fumento; Reason, March 1997; Copyright 1997 by Reason magazine
http://overlawyered.com/articles/fumento/gulflore.html
- The (Irrational) Fear of Pesticides
http://fumento.com/supest.html
- New Syndrome? Or More Silliness?
By Michael Fumento
Copyright 1996 by Michael Fumento
http://www.fumento.com/bomis11.html
- Pesticides Are Not The Problem
By Michael Fumento; Science adviser to the Atlantic Foundation
and author of Science Under Siege
http://web.utk.edu/~gwilson1/fumento.html
- Reason Online
SICK OF IT ALL - People with "Multiple Chemical sensitivity" are definitely
suffering. The question is, why?
By Michael Fumento
(The answer is: CHEMICALS ... 70,000 or so in the economy today. So much is unkown
about them used singly and less about them used in combination and still less about the effects of
them together as the volatilize to make new compounds ...
What is known is that among the 3,000-5,000 petrochemicals used to formulate synthetic scents,
you'll find irritants and sensitizers -- HELLO, ASTHMA! -- and you'll also find known or
suspected carcinogens, neurotoxins (adversely affecting your brain, your central nervous system)
and teratogens (adversely affecting embryonic and fetal development). But you'll not get that
info from Mr. Fumento. -- barb)
http://www.reasonmag.com/9606/Fe.FUMENTO.html
- Senseless Scent Patrol
By Michael Fumento
The Washington Times, May 7, 2000
Copyright 2000 by The Washington Times
http://www.fumento.com/washtimesscent.html
- With Gulf War Syndrome, No Disease Is No News
By Michael Fumento; January 7, 2000
http://www.fumento.com/gulfstudies.html
- Functional Somatic Syndromes
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1 June 1999. 130:910-921
Arthur J. Barsky, MD, and Jonathan F. Borus, MD
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01jun99/barsky.htm
- Global Climate Coalition.
"A voice for business in the global warming debate"
Note, check out EWG on The Word IS Out! -- barb
http://www.globalclimate.org/
- Ronald Gots, MD, PhD
Also see EHN's The Word IS Out! -- use your browser's FIND command
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/wordout.htm
- Book written with Stephen J. Barrett,
Chemical Sensitivity : The Truth About Environmental Illness
- Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute (ESRI)
Gots resigned. From what I gather, after the State Farm expose, a search now of ESRI site
turns up nothing on Gots. -- barb
http://www.esri.org/
Grounds Maintenance
Article on MCS, quoting Gots . . . Of course, this is the chemical industry's self-serving view. -- barb
"Dr. Ronald E. Gots, of the National Medical Advisory Service, states, "It defies classification as a disease. It has no consistent characteristics, no uniform cause, no objective or measurable features. It exists because a patient believes it does and a doctor validates that belief. It may be the only ailment in existence in which the patient defines
both the cause and the manifestations of his own condition."
http://grounds-mag.com/mag/grounds_maintenance_part_ii_multiple/
More about the NMAS -- another of Gots' fronts . . .
Rachel's
http://www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm
From Rachel's #464 - Cigarette Science at Johns Hopkins, October 19, 1995
Quote:
... Dr. Gots wears another hat, as director of the National Medical Advisory
Service (NMAS), which provides expert witnesses to attorneys
defending corporations in product liability lawsuits. ESRI and NMAS are
essentially indistinguishable; they share the same offices and have the
same fax number; Dr. Gots heads them both. ESRI and NMAS promote
the same viewpoint toward MCS: it is an imaginary or psychological
phenomenon, not an illness, so it couldn't be caused by chemicals. For
example, on September 15, 1995, Dr. Gots testified on behalf of a
corporate defendant in a lawsuit, saying under oath, "The MCS theory
has been subjected to peer review evaluation and it has generally been
rejected as 'junk science.'"[8]
Dr. Gots himself has had some recent work subjected to review by one
of his peers, and it was found wanting. His recent book, TOXIC RISKS:
SCIENCE, REGULATION AND PERCEPTION was thoroughly trashed
by a reviewer in the JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE--an
industry-dominated journal. Dr. Gots's book was described as "of little
value to public health professionals and scientists" and "replete with
sweeping generalizations, overstatements, and exaggerations."[9]
Despite the obvious anti-MCS bias of Dr. Gots and his anti-MCS
organizations, a respected university and the federal government are
now allowing themselves to become a vehicle for Dr. Gots's political
agenda. October 30 through Nov. 1, Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore --one of the nation's top research institutions, particularly in
public health --in conjunction with NIOSH [National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health, a federal agency] --is co-sponsoring a
symposium with Dr. Gots's National Medical Advisory Service, assisted
by the staff of the Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute. The
symposium is called "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: State-of-the-
Science Symposium." As you might expect from a group that doesn't
believe there is any valid science supporting diagnoses of MCS, the
symposium is heavily weighted in favor of pro-industry, anti-consumer,
anti-MCS-patient viewpoints. No attempt is being made by conference
organizers to include or accommodate MCS patients." ...
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=659
Available as a printer friendly PDF file:
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/pdf/Rachels_Environment_Health_News_659.pdf
For more on Gots, see Rachel's #585 - A New Mechanism Of Disease, February 12, 1998
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=533
Available as a printer friendly PDF file:
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/pdf/Rachels_Environment_Health_News_533.pdf
.
- International Center for Toxicology and Medicine
"ICTM provides impartial medical and scientific evaluation
services. Our in-house team of professionals specialize in
environmental and occupational medicine, toxicology,
industrial hygiene, and physical sciences.
They said it, not me, but I sure question their impartiality . . . -- barb
"Recent ICTM projects include:
Indoor Air/ Sick Building Syndrome
Occupational Toxic Exposure
Accidental Release of Chemicals into the
Environment
Adverse Drug Reactions
Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
Risk Communication
"Recent clients include:
Legal Profession
Chemical Manufacturers
Pharmaceutical Companies
Insurance and Financial Firms
Trade Associations
Environmental Organizations
US Federal, State, and Local Governments
International Governments"
http://www.ictm.com/home.html
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Distinguishing between Psychogenic and Toxicodynamic
by Ronald E. Gots, M.D., Ph.D.
http://ictm.com/articles/ICTM103.html
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities‚ Public Policy
by Ronald E. Gots, M.D., Ph.D.
http://ictm.com/articles/ICTM134.html
- National Medical Advisory Service, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Texaco and Ecuador Information Package - Response To Claims
"Dr. Ronald E. Gots, M.D., Ph.D. of the National Medical Advisory Service in
Bethesda, Maryland, wrote, "As a meaningful discussion of differences in disease or
health outcome prevalences it (the UPPSAE study) has no scientific merit. As an
epidemiological investigation of the effects of oil petrochemicals upon health it is of no
value at all."
http://www.texaco.com/shared/position/docs/responsec.html
- Workers Comp: The real QUACKS!
http://www.injuredworker.org/forums/injuredworker/posts/1078.html
Gulf War Syndrome
Industry on offense in Halifax
The industry on the offense is as offensive as the toxic chemicals used in their fragrances.
Also see EHN's page A, Articles on Halifax, which includes gems like,
"No-Scent Makes Good Sense" -- barb
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/a.htm#Halifax
- Environmental Illness? Nonscents!
By Nancy Radcliffe
The Halifax Daily News, April 16, 2000
Copyright 2000 by the Halifax Daily News
http://www.fumento.com/radcliffe2.html
- The Lexington Institute
Regulation and Environment
http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/environment/index.html
- Leah McLaren
"Non-scents in Nova Scotia - HALIFAX HYSTERIA"
The Globe and Mail, Saturday, April 29, 2000
"This morning before I left my hotel room, I showered with aloe-scented soap,
applied honeysuckle deodorant, combed a glob of fruity-smelling gel through my
hair and, before dressing, liberally spritzed my neck with Dior's J'adore eau de
toilette (white-hot-rose notes), my wrists with Noa (an ethereal musk), and the
backs of my knees with Chanel No. 5 (a classic).
"Slipping into a trench coat marinated in that drugstore favourite, Charlie, I
hopped in a cab and came straight here to the Grace Health Centre in Halifax. ..."
http://edgeworthstreet.tripod.com/NonScentsinNovaScotia.html
Note, there are rebuttals to Leah McLaren's hateFULL assault.
See The Word IS Out! and key in McLaren to your browser's find command.
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnhompg/wordout.htm
- Scent Censoring Incenses - Critic says Policies are Halifax's Mania
By Shaune MacKinlay
The Daily News, April 16, 2000
Copyright 2000 by the Daily News
http://www.fumento.com/halifax.html
- Scents-orship
Nancy Radcliffe
The Halifax Daily News, April 12, 2000
Copyright 2000 by the Halifax Daily News
http://www.fumento.com/radcliffe.html
- Scents and Sensibility
The National Post, April 20, 2000
Copyright 2000 by the National Post
http://www.fumento.com/scentreact.html
- Senseless Scent Patrol
By Michael Fumento
The Washington Times, May 7, 2000
Copyright 2000 by The Washington Times
http://www.fumento.com/washtimesscent.html
- When in Halifax, spare the deodorant
Ruth Walker (walkerr@csps.com)
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/21/p1s4.htm
Iowa professor: Dr. Miles Weinberger, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa
(You have just GOT to read this! A snippet ... Read the whole article, then write. -- barb)
"[Dr. Weinberger] wonders if the senators have been misguided by anti-pesticide activists.
"If they are using pesticides, their purpose is to eliminate roaches and flies and other
insects that are unpleasant and have potential to transmit diseases themselves," said
Weinberger. He noted that in older schools, particularly in the Northeast, "roaches
may contribute to allergies -- so any safe measure that kills them would enhance the safety
of the school, rather than create harm."
http://www.drkoop.com/news/focus/october/sepa.html
email to: miles-weinberger@uiowa.edu
International Center for Toxicology and Medicine (ICTM)
http://ictm.com/main.html
Dr. Koop.com
LA Times
Friday, January 28, 2000 - available online limited time, then by fee
"The Significance of the 21st Century Schnoz "
By GREG MORAGO, Hartford Courant
http://www.calendarlive.com/fashion/20000127/t000008724.html
Mental Help Net (MHN)
- UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY (MCS)
In my opinion, there is NO understanding MCS in this opinion piece, in which the editor has
the temerity to send one on to a Michael Fumento article appearing in REASON. There we
learn "Michael Fumento is REASON's science correspondent, under a grant from the
William H. Donner Foundation." -- barb
http://mentalhelp.net/archives/editor7.htm
Steven Milloy - JUNK
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome: A Clinical Perspective. II. Evaluation,
Diagnostic Testing, Treatment, and Social Considerations - Abstract
Authors: Sparks-PJ; Daniell-W; Black-DW; Kipen-HM; Altman-LC; Simon-GE; Terr-AI
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 7, pages 731-737.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/8pmcsab-3.html
The National Council Against Health Fraud
http://www.hcrc.org/ncahf/ncahf.html
National Post Online, Canada
National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Idea House
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Frivolities
Industry apolgists in action with regurgitation of old claims. While MCS, and those who have it
are stultified, numbers of people chronically ill and prematurely dead soar. -- barb
http://www.ncpa.org/pd/pdenv1.html
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
http://www.nejm.org
After reading EI Briefing Paper, above, read the following modern
spin-off of chemical industry hysteria. Then also visit
-- barb
- Mass Psychogenic Illness Attributed to Toxic Exposure at a High School
Timothy F. Jones, Allen S. Craig, Debbie Hoy, Elaine W. Gunter,
David L. Ashley, Dana B. Barr, John W. Brock, William Schaffner
http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0002/0096.asp
Abstract available through
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302215950/http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0002/0096.asp
- Related Editorial by Simon Wessely, M.D. (UK)
"Responding to Mass Psychogenic Illness"
Hardly free of bias and not looking at the true picture! -- barb
http://www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0002/0129.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816184216/www.nejm.org/content/2000/0342/0002/0129.asp
And a response that's free of industry bias and worthy of note . . .
Mass Psychogenic Illness Attributed to Toxic Exposure at a High School
Miller C. S., Ashford N. A., Goode M. D., Black D., Welch F., Murray V., Heuser G.,
Rifkin A., Jones T., Craig A., Schaffner W.
N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1673-1675, Jun 1, 2000. Correspondence
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/342/22/1673?tmonth=November&excludeflag=TWEEK_element&sortspec=Score+desc+PUBDATE_SORTDATE+desc&hits=20&where=fulltext&tyear=2003&andorexactfulltext=and&fyear=1994&fmonth=November&searchterm=Mass+Psychogenic+Il>http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/342/22/1673?tmonth=November&excludeflag=TWEEK_element&sortspec=Score+desc+PUBDATE_SORTDATE+desc&hits=20&where=fulltext&tyear=2003&andorexactfulltext=and&fyear=1994&fmonth=November&searchterm=Mass+Psychogenic+Ill
- Spinoff stories proving once again that ERRORS COMPOUND. All it takes is a little
research BEFORE sending out more erroneous reports. By compounding errors rather than
righting wrongs, the culprits are not helping other people avoid air pollution sources such as
dry traps and such products as ozone generators run while people are in the area and air
"fresheners" used to try to mask or overpower an objectionable odor. Come on folks, wake up
already. The health you save could be your own or that of your child. -- b arb
- 1998 Outbreak Just Hysteria?
No Evidence of Illness at Tennessee School
By Jeff Donn; The Associated Press
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/dailynews/hysteria_outbreak000112.html
- Anxiety caused illness at school, study finds
By Leon Alligood / Tennessean Staff Writer and Tennessean News Services
http://www.tennessean.com/sii/00/01/13/hysteria13.shtml
- "Mass Hysteria May Be Rising - U.S. Study"
from Reuters - Wednesday January 12 5:05 PM ET
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000112/sc/health_hysteria_1.html
http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/New-Files/20000131/mass_hysteria_rising.txt
- "Mind Over Matter"
The Guardian, (UK) Tuesday, January 25, 2000
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3954445,00.html
- Mass Psychogenic Illness: Role of the Individual Physician.
Author/s: Timothy F. Jones,M.D.,"... is a medical epidemiologist with the Tennessee
Department of Health and assistant clinical professor of preventive medicine at
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville. ..."
American Family Physician; Dec 15, 2000
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3225/12_62/67940114/print.jhtml
- Mysterious Illness Often Turns Out to Be Mass Hysteria
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.; New York Times; January 18, 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/011800hth-doctors.html
- Our Biological Panic Buttons
CBS HealthWatch
http://cbshealthwatch.medscape.com/medscape/p/G_Library/article.asp?RecID=205496&ContentType=Library
- Scents And SENSELESSNESS
Fumento and company's articles
http://www.fumento.com/
http://www.fumento.com/scents.html
- "Students Ill? Mass Hysteria"
Washington Post - compiled from Reuters and AP reports,
Thursday, January 13, 2000 (no longer available without a fee)
http://www.washingtonpost.com
- What really happened ... NEJM leads media hysteria!
(Use the following info in "In Opposition to Journalistic Errors" to educate your local media.
Also write to the papers, some listed above, that carried spinoff stories of the NEJM articles.
This may seem distant from us, but believe me, the foul odor coming off these fallacious stories
adveresely affect us all. So write! -- barb)
NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Call 1-800-35-NIOSH (1-800-356-4674) for additional information
Read their abstracts. Then contact NIOSH! -- barb
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/8pmcspg.html?
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities - written well before April 2003
"Because the cause of MCS is not currently known, control methods could only be
based on unproven theories. MCS is clearly not occupationally related."
If YOU are as outraged by this report in general -- and specifically by the line above -- as I am,
please call and/or write OSHA. Heavens, they've even linked to that predecisional draft ATSDR-
released report, which contained the words of industry apologists such as doctors Ronald Gots
(chemical front organizations) and Abba Terr (Workers' Comp).
Furthermore, how can OSHA state on one hand that the cause of MCS is NOT known, and then
state CATEGORICALLY on the other that "MCS is clearly not occupationally related"?
That's HOGWASH! -- barb
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/multiplechemicalsensitivities/index.html
- OSHA -Spring 2000 -- OSHA, in its infinite wisdom links to this report:
Statement of The Interagency Workgroup on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
November 2000
http://www.health.gov/environment/mcs/letter.htm
Spring 2001 -- Comments are posted. Do you get to see all of the public comments? NO.
They summarize our comments but they publish this biased document in whole.
Most MCS groups and activists have soundly renounced the ATSDR report for a variety of valid
reasons. For a look at a few of the public comments, in their entirety, visit EHN's page
Responses to the MCS Report
http://ehnca.org/www/atsdr/atsdrmcs.htm#Rebuttals
April 2003, until ?:
Well, OSHA got rid of their duplicitous statement:
"Control: Because the cause of MCS is not currently known, control methods could only
be
based on unproven theories. MCS is clearly not occupationally related. "
Whatever else is right or wrong with OSHA's revised page on MCS, their first reference under
"Other" is to a chemical front organization developed by Dr. Ronald Gots . . ."Environmental
Sensitivities Research Institute." But they top themselves by also referencing, "'Clinical
Ecology - A Critical Appraisal.' California Medical Association Scientific Board Task Force on
Clinical Ecology. (1986). Western Journal of Medicine 144:239-245." As Albert Donnay of
MCS Referral and Resources informs us: "California Medical Association, which adopted a
position paper critical of clinical ecology in 1986, reclassified it as a "historical document only" in
1993" http://www.mcsrr.org/factsheets/mcsrecog.html.
I suggest to OSHA that they begin studying sites like EHN's, MCS R&R, Alison Johnson's,
contact Mary Lamielle . . . ECHO . . . heck, just go to EHN's page of MCS Links
http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/mcs.htm
And, OSHA may want to follow out one of its links and the link of links to
Allergies: Culprit Could be in Cosmetic Bag
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/3/ALLERGY.AAD.html
Get fragrance products out of the workplace and you'll improve indoor air AND health! THAT is worker safety, OSHA. -- barb
Dr. Loren Pankratz
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Dancing Manias
A talk by Dr. Loren Pankratz, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.
http://www.psg.com/~ted/bcskeptics/meetings/Mt990929.html
Perfume 2000 Magazine
Pest Control Operators of California
Beyond Pesticides Daily News
Once out to Beyobnd Pesticides, use your find command to locate: Fairfax, California
Ordinance Disputed by Pest Control Operators of California (from April 19,2001). -- barb
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/news.htm
Precautionary Principle
Reason On Line
"Michael Fumento is REASON's science correspondent, under a grant from the
William H. Donner Foundation."
http://www.reason.com/
- Gulf Lore Syndrome
Why are the Gulf War vets getting sick? You won't find out by reading
The New York Times and USA Today.
By Michael Fumento
http://www.reason.com/9703/fe.fumento.html
- Risky Journalism - April 1997
ABC's John Stossel bucks a fearful establishment.
Interviewed by Jacob Sullum
" While preparing a 20/20 segment on multiple chemical sensitivity that aired in
January, John Stossel sent ABC associate producer Deborah Ston . . ."
http://www.reason.com/9704/fe.stosselint.html
- LETTERS
Includes response from Grace Ziem, M.D., written "...to correct misstatements and
misimpressions presented by your interview with John Stossel ("Risky Journalism," April). -- barb
Sensitivity Training
http://www.reason.com/9710/letters.html
- SICK OF IT ALL - June 1996
People with "Multiple Chemical sensitivity" are definitely suffering. The question is, why?
By Michael Fumento
http://www.reason.com/9606/Fe.FUMENTO.html
- Sensitive Reactions
Includes excellent responses by William J. Meggs, M.D. and Cynthia Wilson, Executive
Director, Chemical Injury Information AND Michael Fumento responding to them. -- barb
http://www.reason.com/9610/ltr.fumento.html
- Still Crazy
Are federal judges taming the ADA? Don't count on it.
By Walter Olson
http://www.reason.com/9805/col.olson.html
RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment)
Do not be fooled by the name of this organization . . . it IS very pro-industry. And
just guess who sits on their list of West Nile Info Center? The CDC . . . which drops the
most important initial in its name, P for PREVENTION. To learn more about RISE,
check the following links. -- barb
- #464 - Cigarette Science at Johns Hopkins, October 19, 1995
" ... The pesticide corporations have formed their own cigarette-science group called RISE
(Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment). RISE is made up of executives from
companies like Monsanto, Sandoz Agro, DowElanco, Dupont Agricultural Products,
The Scotts Company, and other pesticide manufacturers, formulators, and distributors.
"The issue that has RISE's members worried is multiple chemical sensitivity, or MCS.
MCS is an adverse reaction to low levels of many different chemicals with symptoms
that range from sniffles to coma. ..."
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=659
Disinfopedia
"Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) is an affiliate of the
American Crop Protection Association, with which it shares a Washington, DC office. ..."
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Responsible_Industry_for_a_Sound_Environment
- From the people who made the Dandelion America's # 1 yard enemy
(enabling them to sell tons of hazardous toxins to innocent families)
Now here to re-write history on the dangers of Pests vs. Pesticides
The pesticide producers idea of School IPM
http://www.getipm.com/schools/pest-industry/rise-ltr.htm
Personal Injury Law Page
Before you hire a lawyer - what you need to know.
http://personalinjurylawpage.com/defective-products/t-chemical.htm
SafetyAlerts' HealthScout
- "Dust mites shoulder main blame for asthma rise in U.S."
By Adam Marcus; HealthSCOUT Reporter
http://www.healthscout.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Af?ap=55&id=90016
"Some allergens believed to aggravate asthma might not be so irritating
after all, the panelists found. These include pesticides, houseplants and
perfumes. "There are a lot of things people have assumed are really bad
actors, but the data are not that clear," says Johnston."
(What was this reporter reading? I presonally think he -- and the industry --
is making too much out of the dust mite.The IOM included "For biologic or chemical
contaminants that could worsen asthma symptoms, limited or suggestive evidence exists
regarding exposure to... fragrances in personal care and household products. See
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309064961?OpenDocument
-- barb)
San Francisco Chronicle
Scented Products Education and Information Association of Canada (SPEIAC)
http://www.scentedproducts.on.ca/
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Locke orders spraying of gypsy moths
Irate Ballard, Magnolia residents seek a
court injunction to stop it
Wednesday, May 10, 2000; By PHUONG LE and ANGELA GALLOWAY
http://www.seattle-pi.com/local/moth10.shtml
Skepticism.Net
Abba Terr, MD
- Chemical Warfare
The world makes them sick, say a growing number of Floridians. The cause, they
claim, is pesticides. But the pesticide industry says "prove it!"
© Sun-Sentinel Company 1995
Michael McLeod, Staff Writer; June 4, 1995
"But to Stanford University immunologist Dr. Abba Terr, it's a kind of networked mass hysteria. As
defined and presented by its proponents, chemical sensitivity constitutes a belief and not a disease, he
says. If it is hypochondria, it has a high price, causing people to lose their jobs, their homes, their health,
even their friends and relatives.
http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/orlando1.html
- CIIN - Chemical Injury Information Network
http://www.ciin.org/library.htm
- THE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION'S
ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS BRIEFING PAPER, 1990
http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm
- DSB Report: OVERVIEW
Dr. Abba I. Terr, Stanford University Medical Center
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Persian Gulf War Health Effects
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/dsbrpt/overview.html
- MCS: A Sensitive Issue
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-9/focus1.html
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome: A Clinical Perspective. II. Evaluation,
Diagnostic Testing, Treatment, and Social Considerations - Abstract
Authors: Sparks-PJ; Daniell-W; Black-DW; Kipen-HM; Altman-LC; Simon-GE; Terr-AI
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 7, pages 731-737.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/8pmcsab-3.html
- POLITICS & NATURAL HEALTH
What Biased Prosecutions Cost Skip Humphrey
Leo B. Cashman
Judge Astle did rely heavily on the testimony of Dr. Abba Terr, an allergist who had
scientifically sparred with Sinaiko at scientific forums. To say that Dr. Terr competed with
Sinaiko for the same patients may be an understatement; Terr practiced in the same
building as Sinaiko. The judge dismissed any concern over allowing such a potentially
biased witness or the fact that Dr. Terr makes up to $600 per hour as an expert witness
on the defense (insurance industry) side against claims of allergy-caused
disability.
http://www.tcwellness.com/archives/1998wel/december/cost.html
- Public Advocacy Initiatives of MCS Referral & Resources
Complaints & Critiques- Advocating Scientific Integrity in MCS Research,
MCS Conferences, and the U.S. Government's Response to Gulf War Syndrome
http://www.mcsrr.org/advocacy.html
- January 8, 1998: Dr. Abba Terr, a clinical teacher on allergy and immunology
Includes defense notes:
" [Note from Defense Brief:]
" The "clear and convincing" evidence also shows that Abba Terr, M.D., the Board's lead consultant on MCS, should be disqualified as an expert for any part of the Accusations made against Dr. Sinaiko with any of these four patients. He has both personal and professional reasons for being unsuitable as a reviewer with this Respondent. Not only did he share very difficult high-profile cases (e.g., [E.T.]'s daughter) with Dr. Sinaiko -- with dramatically different outcomes -- but he also shared very difficult situations such as the police officer's death portrayed in the "Bad Chemistry" program aired on KQED and McNeil/Lehrer, again with dramatically different outcomes. Finally, Dr. Terr practiced and still practices in close proximity to Dr. Sinaiko and competes daily for allergy referrals and patients, a single objection that is more than adequate to cause him to be disqualified per the Board's published (Exhibit A -- April 1994) conflicts standards.
"Dr. Terr has believed and published for decades that MCS is -- at best -- a psychiatric or psychosomatic illness. His dogma has not changed despite the world passing him by. Early on, many mainstream medical groups from the American Medical Association (AMA) to the California Medical Association (CMA) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) joined in Dr. Terr's bashing of "clinical ecologists" and their notions of environmentally-induced illness. All of these bodies had withdrawn their position papers on this subject by the early 1990's. One can only wonder how much the $600/hr consultancies to industry on MCS continue to color his view in 1998?"
http://www.legalfund.org/Wit_hold.html#AT
- Sweet-Scented Pesticide 'Sugarcoats a Toxic Pill' (bubblegum scent)
"Critics Decry Industry's 'Perverse' Threat to Children"
Andrew Duffy; The Ottawa Citizen - August 20, 2000
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/headlines/2000/294.html
- Summary of Information Relevant to the Workers Compensation Appeals
Tribunal (WCAT) test case of February 22, 2000
"...- Dr. Staudenmayer's definition of environmental illness (pages 22-23) includes only
part of what environmental medicine experts include. It includes only the higher dose,
Toxicological part. He and Doctors Gots and Terr also appear unaware of years of
research, hundreds of research papers that support the physiogenic nature of
environmental illness/Sick Building Syndrome.
"... Dr. Abba Terr, allergist and immunologist, testified to the lack of a connection between the immune system and EIS.....(p. 26) ...
"... Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and high Stakes Second Edition.
Nicholas Ashford and Claudia Miller (a few pages are included here, but this is a very
important book to this WCB issue) It is recognized in this book that Dr. Gots,
Dr. Staudenmayer, and Dr. Terr are three of the strongest proponents of the psychogenic
theory in the United States. (Why is it that experts of equal weight from the
physiogenic point of view were not brought in from the United States, England or
elsewhere?) "
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Education/CASLE/wcbinfo6.html
- "Dr. Abba Terr is paid $600 an hour as the 'expert' to testify against patients who try
to get insurance coverage for treatment of chemical/pesticide exposure. He also
testifies against a physician who diagnoses such patients with anything other than a
'somatoform disorder.' That¼s a fancy word for 'it¼s all in your head.' ..."
TOWNSEND LETTER FOR DOCTORS & PATIENTS
Robert Sinaiko, MD, Placed on Probation; January 2000
http://www.mindspring.com/~adaughaus/Townsend_Letter.html
- Workers Comp: The real QUACKS!
http://www.injuredworker.org/forums/injuredworker/posts/1078.html
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http://www.virtualaroma.com/va_nosound.html
Washington Post
"Pesticide Coalition Tries to Blunt Regulation"
By George Lardner Jr. and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 13, 2000; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59369-2000May12.html
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