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Post by Patti on Aug 24, 2007 14:05:44 GMT -5
State Joins Dispute Over Lyme Scientists' Battle Over Treatment By MICHAEL REGAN Hartford (CT) Courant Staff Writer August 24, 2007 NEW HAVEN, CT Durland Fish, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, leading authority on disease-carrying insects, is sitting in his paper-strewn office at the Yale School of Public Health. He is ticking down a list of physicians who disagree with him on the matter of chronic Lyme disease. "This guy ..." Fish begins. "He cheated. He fabricated an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. He provided false results. The paper had to be retracted. He was banned from [National Institutes of Health] funding for a period of time. The guy used to be the director of some penile enlargement clinic out on the West Coast. I mean, this guy ... There's some problems with him." He proceeds down the list, name by name: "Totally bogus." "He killed one of his patients." "They tried to shut him down." Words like "crackpot," "wacko," "buffoon" and "fraud" pepper his discourse. A little later, he stops to ponder a question. "I don't know," he says after a moment's thought. "I don't know why they hate me so much." ...rest of story and photo here: tinyurl.com/2goxxc
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Post by jwf on Aug 28, 2007 0:28:05 GMT -5
It's truly amazing what a few knuckleheads can get away with in this country. Their comeupance can't be too soon.
Blue Skies.......John
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