Medical Association’s Alleged Conflicts of Interest
- Posted by admin on February 27th, 2007 filed in News
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine mold policy paper is at the heart of the contention over the Toxic Mold Issue. The paper claims to prove humans could not plausibly be exposed to enough mold toxins within a damp indoor environment to cause symptoms of ill health. “Highly unlikely at best, even among the most vulnerable of subpopulations” is what the non-physician authors wrote.
But the EPA and the Institute of Medicine, Damp Indoor Spaces Committee, have both identified the technique used by ACOEM to make the key conclusion, as non-acceptable methodology for determining existence or absence of human illness from indoor mold toxin exposure. The finding represents an affront to anyone with rudimentary logic skills. It is a complete non sequitur, where the premise does not support the conclusion.
Since the ACOEM mold paper’s publication in November of 2002, it has saved worker’s compensation insurers, property insurers, general liability insurers and building stakeholders, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Insurance industry surrogates - the paid witnesses - including some ACOEM members themselves - and the lawyers, have earned millions in fees. Of more importance, the sick receive no medical treatment and no compensation for devastated lives and financial ruin.
ACOEM is a medical trade association made up of approximately 7000 physicians. The organization writes evidence based protocol for the treatment of injured workers under the platform of Workers Comp Reform. Several of their evidence based conclusions are currently being used to determine what illnesses and injuries will and will not be treated and/or covered under workers compensation insurance guidelines.
February 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Toxic Mold Story -Video Now On WJBF TV Website - Hear true story of lady poisoned by mycotoxins has been ignored by medical community even after a clear diagnosis! Mary Morrison investigates and lets them public respond which they did in a big way.
Mary hoped MCG (Medical College of Ga.) would help us warn the public of adverse health effects of potentially toxic molds. Instead, they declined an interview and stated “There is NO SUCH THING”.
Iris and Tommy Lee had their lives devastated as they were poisoned. They had to abandon the toxic home and their possessions. Hear their story. Dr. Vojdani and Croft shared medical results.
IAQ testing not only revealed many indoor molds - stachy, aspergillus, chaetomium,penicillium,trichoderma..but VERY toxic levels of the agent roridin A -a potent trichothecene and agent of biowarfare.
Still no one will take the time to look at this medical tragedy. Others in the local community and all across the nation suffer.
Please share the video and pass on to your contacts and even affiliates and media. Comments to http://www.wjbf.com website are welcome. you may also contact mary or WJBF.
If you agree MCG did the public a real injustice by denying the existence of these mycotoxins -while they have millions in grants to study biological agents?? please let them know how you feel.
Iris also has photos of her injuries and things suffered at http://www.myspace.com/faceoftoxicmold None of the liable parties including Grane Mutual have done anything to help and allow a family to still live in this toxic home.
Video is posted on http://www.wrdw.com Mold And your Health. 706 828 7303 (mary) Thanks to Mary Morrison for sharing this story.
iris & Tlee would love to speak with anyone with an interest or concern.
706 595 7620 moldedfolk@aol.com We can’t sit here and do nothing while people are dying..God bless. iris
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February 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
I moved into a house full of toxic mold. I am very sick. I lost my sense of balance. I lost much of my hearing. I now seem to alergic to everythng. I sneeze, cough and blow my nose constantly. I have breathing difficulty. I am lethargic. Short term memory loss. Chronic pain, chronic fatigue. No stamina. Chest pain on exertion. I had none of these symptome prior to living in the mold house. I moved out nearly 6 montrhs ago. The symptoms persist. Obviously, I have carried the mold with me into our new residence. Don’t anybody ever try to tell me that mold is harmless. It is killing me and I can’t even find a Dr. who understands this problem in the least. I need help now. Where do I go
Sincerly, Bill Vanderbilt
March 1st, 2007 at 10:22 am
Bill:
We are the people in the video and tv segment. we went thru the same thing. No one would belive it was our home, and we never saw the mold..we moved and took everything. We quickly found out, our possessions were covered with toxic spores and vapors of trichloroethane.
If you saw the video, you saw News Anchor, mary Morrison, standing in front of a renown hospital (MCG)..they could have helped us warn people. Yet, they staed..Toxic mold? There is no such thing! What a horrible thing to say.
I know how you feel, and like you, I’ve been thru hell..i will NOT be told MOLD can not hurt you. We know we are sick and we know what it came from. I already dealt with pain..but that doesn’t mean it was okay to get poisoned. MCG also stated it can only cause varying allergies? They are dead wrong! this is not an allergy, it’s a poisoning.
Hang in there. I hope things will break and we can all get the help we need. We were the same place you are. We HAD to get out..ended up homeless for almost a year..But if we had stayed, the stuff was killing us. Please do what you can- i know how hard all this is.
I don’t know your situation or if anyone is liable.. but I will pray for you.
If you get a chance to post comments on the story, please do so..it will help. take care..Mold And Your Health
Our story is in march 1, 2007 E-magazine. I wish I could advise you. Iris