RE: [CPEO-MEF] Unintended medical consequences?

[CPEO Moderator <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

The following response was posted by Barry Steinberg
<Barry.Steinberg@KutakRock.com>
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Mr Metcalf is either guilty of hyperbole or lacks knowledge concerning
the nature and scope of the  medical experiments of the German and
Japanese governments during World War II.



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.From: CPEO Moderator [mailto:cpeo@cpeo.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:10 PM
To: cpeo-military@igc.topica.com
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Unintended medical consequences?


THE SIERRA TIMES
Here We Go Again...
Unintended medical consequences?
By Geoff Metcalf

Agent Orange, Gulf War Illness, and now....?

Associated Press reports, "The Army is trying to figure out what is
causing a rash of serious pneumonia cases, including two
fatalities,
among soldiers serving in Iraq." A team of specialists has been
sent to
Iraq to investigate over a dozen cases of pneumonia sufficiently
serious
to put the soldiers on ventilators to breathe and to be evacuated
from
the area.

The Army reports that two soldiers have died, nine recovered and
three
are still hospitalized. Is this normal? The Army Surgeon General
says,
given the number of troops deployed, 100 cases "do not exceed
expectations."

Maybe...But who's expectations and based on what data?

    * Are expectations based on forecasting statistics for depleted
uranium munitions exposure?
    * Or assorted vaccines?
    * Are the pneumonia incidents routine?
    * Or statistical anomalies?

For at least 72 years our government has engaged in highly
questionable
(unethical) medical experimentation. The same kind of stuff they
make
movies out of and that we have vilified the Japanese and Germans
for
doing, our government has done (and arguably continues to do).

I wrote about this back in January, "The Mushroom Policy: Human
Experimentation", but it bears repeating.

It is easy to "pooh-pooh" any "mad scientists" suggestions as mere
"conspiracy theory" hogwash. However, a litany of FACTS should
disabuse
a reasonable person of the conspiratorial fiction line when you
review
history.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/08/04/metcalf.htm

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