Re: Video - CDC Accused Of Misusing Funds

[Guest guest]

We've already done a couple of rounds on this story - if you're upset, write

your representatives.

FRANKLY, I think spending money on Hollywood accurately representing illness

is REALLY IMPORTANT in terms of getting the word out about disabilities - if we

ever get them to recognize our stuff, we're gonna want them offering good

information on what we've been through. Dunno 'bout the rest of y'all, but the

CDC SHOULD be a neutral voice, and there are a LOT of corporate voices out there

making light of our situations - I think the CDC ought to be funded in a way

that will attract the brightest minds to work there - I'd like it to be the best

in the world in terms of identifying and discovering cures for all kinds of

conditions.

But sure, if you'd prefer it all research to be corporate run for the benefit

of the folks who sell pharmaceuticals, go ahead and complain... Medical schools

are already fast on that track. Does anyone here HONESTLY think our concerns

will get taken more seriously and cured if we privatize scientific leadership?

To each their own.

~Haley

tigerpaw2c <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

This was on last night on CBS News. Click on the video to the right of

the page.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main3420.shtml

~Haley

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Hollywood and the CDC. I find this to be an alarming way for government to

disseminate misinformation to the masses. It grew gradually. It started off

with Hollywood going to the CDC to ask technical questions to get accuracy in

medical aspects of shows. Next, they used it to relay public messages with

health significance, such as instead of having soap opera characters meet in a

bar, have them meet in a health club. Then it became the CDC had a paid rep

in Hollywood who would have input into many shows to promote, thru what was

meant to be entertainment, the CDC agenda. This is WRONG. It is

dissemination of propaganda thru the abuse of the entertainment industry. Not

only is

the CDC now impacting what we do get to know about science, they are impacting

what we don't get to know about science. And the average Joe, who doesn't

even realize how much he learns from watching TV shows, gets subjected to much

scientific misinformation or is denied access to scientific information

because the CDC is misusing the entertainment industry to control the masses.

This

is Orwell, 1984 type propagandizing info the masses.

We've already done a couple of rounds on this story - if you're upset, write

your representatives.

FRANKLY, I think spending money on Hollywood accurately representing illness

is REALLY IMPORTANT in terms of getting the word out about disabilities - if

we ever get them to recognize our stuff, we're gonna want them offering good

information on what we've been through. Dunno 'bout the rest of y'all, but

the CDC SHOULD be a neutral voice, and there are a LOT of corporate voices out

there making light of our situations - I think the CDC ought to be funded in

a way that will attract the brightest minds to work there - I'd like it to

be the best in the world in terms of identifying and discovering cures for all

kinds of conditions.

But sure, if you'd prefer it all research to be corporate run for the

benefit of the folks who sell pharmaceuticals, go ahead and complain... Medical

schools are already fast on that track. Does anyone here HONESTLY think our

concerns will get taken more seriously and cured if we privatize scientific

leadership?

To each their own.

~Haley

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[Guest guest]

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