For Betty on ToxLaw Micro Fungi Ed - Doug Haney

[Guest guest]

Author: R. Haney (---.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net)

Date: 06-21-05 07:09

ALL: A while ago Betty lost her husband to what she understands was

his prolonged and high-level exposures to pathogenic micro fungi. In

understanding her frustration with the legal system, I decided to

comment on her post and offer the following as a result of her

anguish. I though this might be excellent information for everyone.

Remember, human life is far more important to the American way than

anything else... we need to return to that code of ethics.

My response is as follows:

Betty:

I wish you would have known about me during your unfortunate ordeal.

I am not an attorney nor a medical doctor, but I am an expert

environmental health researcher who explains the biochemical process

that micro fungi as decomposers use in subtly integrating with human

cellular functions to influence serious human diseases (e.g.,

cancer, lung disease and others) that can eventually lead to death.

I recently heard the quote, \ " It\'s not bragging if you can back it

up!\ " Ask attorney A. Bonner of Sausalito if I am able to

back up what I am saying... his office number is (415) 331-3070.

Go to Google and type in \ " Mark Tatum Mucormycosis\ " and tell me if

breathing in micro fungi is not a deadly venture! I am totally

insensed by anyone; insurance company representative or scientist

who truly believes that inhalation of pathogenic micro fungi is not

a serious health situation! I have asked anyone in the country who

wants to debate me on the subject for several years now, and not one

of the cowards have attempted to do so on any national Talk program.

Many people, including Opra to Montel have been contacted by several

of the experts to wage this vital informational debate, and they are

all absolute cowards in my book for failing to act. This makes me

both angry and disappointed in what we are witnessing in a country

that claims to \ " love thy fellow man.\ " What a joke!

This doesn\'t stop with talk shows. People from GlobalTox and Ron

Gots, M.D. (of a " Dateline NBC " investigation involving a State Farm

Insurance lawsuit titled " Paper Chase " and a judge's " scathing

opinion " in that case calling the company that Dr. Gots founded and

operated as Medical Claims Review Services in Bethesda, MD,

a " completely bogus operation " ), earn a living by pointing out in

litigation and in their written medical reports that micro fungi

exposures are not necessarily dangerous to human health. I have yet

to have any one of them attempt to call me in for a live national

debate. GlobalTox has had a relationship to the CDC, the Manhattan

Report, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental

Medicine report and has testified as such in court. And, GlobalTox

is now in a litigation effort against a friend of mine Sharon K (who

is known to post on ToxLaw.com). If I am saying anything that is

untrue or inaccurate, please, I invite you debate it on a national

talk show! This is not because I really care at all to go on

national television, but only because I want all of this really

brought out in front of the American public so that they too can see

what propaganda is being waged, and expose it for what it is,

garbage! I also feel that it is the safest avenue for me personally.

I would have really appreciated a chance to help you, esp., due to

the unfortunate happenstance of your late husband\'s death. This is

a true American tragedy and my heart goes out to you. Something

about your proposed settlement bothers me. You say, \ " Then tell how

mad the judge is going to be if you don\'t settle. Using the judges

name to strike fear in the plantiffs hearts...who knows if they are

buds?\ " Is that what you were specifically told, and if so, by whom,

your attorney or the defense attorney? Isn\'t that \ " coercion\ " ? If

so, there may perhaps be a real legal breach that you might want to

explore with an attorney who specializes in " legal malpractice. " I

am not an attorney, so I cannot advise you on anything, but I

certainly can tell you that something is not right, if what you are

stating is true. It has been my personal experience that this type

of thing does happen, and if judges truly are upset that a

particular case doesn't settle and makes it into the courtroom in

front of a jury, he or she shouldn't be practicing law. Judges can

get as angry as they want, but if their anger should impede justice

for American citizens seeking it, why should Americans support any

type of system of justice? Isn't this the process that is suppose to

hold our Constitution, individual rights, and prevention of

lawlessness in check?

\ " Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to act by

employing threat of force. Often, it involves the use of actual

force in order to make the threat credible, but it is the threat of

(further) force which brings about the cooperation of the person

being coerced. The term usually has a pejorative connotation,

implying that such threat or force is unethical.\ " (Wikipedia

Encyclopedia)

The real question in court or in public that should be asked, based

on the prevailing science that is available, is were is the research

that states that micro fungi/mycotoxin exposures " do not " cause

serious human diseases. From what I have observed in tobacco product

use, alcoholism, and hospital epidemiological studies into

nosocomial (hospital caused/related) diseases/deaths, and many other

forms of study that they most certainly do! This is also true

for " green composting " , farming, and other forms of respiratory

contact with micro fungi/mycotoxins. Where is all of the reverse

research that such exposures are not dangerous to human biological

systems? Micro fungi are very famous for one specialty in their

ecological niche- they are " primary " decomposers! If you should see

a person dying of lung cancer as the cancer is " rotting " away their

lungs, as a scientist or medical doctor, are you going to tell us

that that is not micro fungi at work as primary decomposers in a

state of pathogenic decomposition? Likewise, when a person has died,

why do morticians attempt to preserve the body? Like they say

on " 20/20 " please, " Give me a break! "

I have another question. Why is it that Governor Arnold

Schwarzenegger ® can call a special election in November 2005 that

will cost the California taxpayer more than an estimated $80,000,000

while the California mold bills Senate Bill 732 and Assembly Bill

284 that involve " vital " human health and safety issues continue to

sit un-funded and dormant. The problem with this is that they were

already signed by Governor (D) nearly three years ago while

California governmental officials continued to state that " the

California budget problems were preventing their funding). Meanwhile

people are continuing to get severely ill and dying while the

mechanisms that would insure their proper health care go in search

of funding for something that is already law.

One last question I have for today is found in a California Research

Bureau, California State Library report titled: " Molds, Toxic Molds,

and Indoor Air Quality " (2001) prepared at the request of Assembly

Member Alan Lowenthal by Ms. Pamela J. . In this document Ms.

states, " Why are molds not on the Proposition 65 list of

chemical contaminants? " The answer Ms. presents is

that, " Proposition 65 requires that the Governor publish a list of

chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause birth

defects, reproductive harm, or cancer. Given that toxic molds are

not classified as chemicals, they do not currently qualify for

inclusion for the list. " www.library.ca.gov/crb/01/notes/v8n1.pdf

(Page 10, Para. 2)

The list to which Ms. refers is officially titled as

the " State of California Environmental Protection Agency Office of

Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Safe Drinking Water and Toxic

Enforcement Act of 1986. " (Found at:

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/list_changes/111403lsta.h

tml )

At face value, I totally agree with Ms. ' statement micro fungi

are not in and of themselves considered chemicals, but rather living

cellular species with cellular characteristics and structurally very

similar to their human counterparts (unlike bacteria and viruses),

in that they are eukaryotic cells. However Ms. ' statement is

totally error at second glance. Micro fungi produce chemicals with

very dangerous odors that are listed on the Prop 65, Safe Drinking

Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. At least 9 mycotoxins

produced by several of the more pathogenic micro fungi species are

on the current listing. In all fairness to Ms. , and I know her

personally, a great deal of hard labor and research went into her

report. However, an error is an error and California government is

responsible to its citizens to respond to the law. This is not the

same for the California Attorney General's Office. In speaking to a

high ranking assistant to the Attorney last year, I was told that

County Code Enforcement Officers are not regulated under the Safe

Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. The general rule

of thumb for most Code Enforcement agencies is that, " If it is not

observable it is un-reportable! " Excuse me? The California Attorney

General's Office can completely eliminate Federal chemical

regulations and then grant county employees immunity from State

regulations? Something is not right? Number one, the mycotoxins

listed are chemicals not microbes, and further more chemicals cannot

be seen by the naked eye. Therefore they have to be investigated in

an environment to be found with certainty. It definitely is a job of

County Code Enforcement agencies to investigate and protect the

health and safety of citizens. Also, the plaques that indicate

chemicals according to Prop 65 are used in an environment and are

known to cause cancer and birth defects do not adequately warn the

public of which chemicals they are being exposed to. This is totally

inadequate. We really need the laws of SB-732 and AB-284, and NOW!

It is really intriguing that one mycotoxin secondary

chemical, " oxalic acid " produced by many pathogenic micro fungi

species is not on the listing! This is peculiar because oxalic acid

(though not produced by the human body but organically metabolized

by it) is a very dangerous mycotoxin, produced by many micro fungi.

Interestingly though, oxalic acid, used to create cleaning and

bleaching products is industrially produced in very large quantities

from the species dangerous micro fungi species Aspergillus niger.

Oxalic acid is strongly and directly correlated with breast cancer

and lung cancer! How? Oxalic acid integrates with calcium to form

oxylate crystals- the same oxylate crystals medical doctors are

observing for in lung and breast cancer diagnosis. Also interesting

is that California is one state that is vested in the production of

large amounts of cleaning and bleaching chemicals. Could there be a

reason that oxalic acid is not listed? After all, its merits have

been known since at least the mid-1950s. Interestingly enough, the

U.S. Department of Labor Occupational and Safety Administration

states the following about oxalic acid, " Oxalic acid is a hazardous

chemical because it is a strong acid and a precipitant of blood

calcium. Prolonged skin exposure can cause dermatitis and contact

with the dust or vapor severely irritates the eyes and respiratory

tract. Severe exposure or ingestion causes such symptoms as

vomiting, coughing, pain, and even death. " (Found at

http://www.osha.gov/dts/sltc/methods/partial/pv2115/pv2115.html )

It is time for all of this nonsense relating to health and safety

for environmental contact and inhalation to move into a more

important process than that of litigation. It is time for research

to focus on the health and safety of people first and foremost, and

unfortunately governments have to recognize the problem as

a " critical " issue and find low cost medical assistance and

treatment processes to make environments safe and accessible. It is

time to also, stop shoving everything under the carpet so to speak,

and be honest with the American public. Together we can use American

intellect to improve our prevention tactics and provide for

healthier environments.

Betty, we are grieving with you and we are going to do something

about it as people start to listen. God Bless you and your

continuing quest for improved health.

R. Haney

EnviroHealth Research & Consulting, Inc.

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