Guest guest Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Dear All, If you are sick from mold and your doctor is not understanding or does not believe mold can cause your symptoms, you really owe it to yourself to read the IJOEH paper by Dr. Craner. It is a great paper that explains ALOT about why your doctor might think that way and what he has had marketed to him about mold induced illnesses. _http://www.ijoeh.com/index.php/ijoeh/article/view/1081_ (http://www.ijoeh.com/index.php/ijoeh/article/view/1081) Dr. Craner is a Fellow American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (ACOEM) His paper on how the Mold Position statement came to be, really is quite good and enlightening about what a shoddy job ACOEM did with their peer review, that has caused so much misery in the lives of many. So just within the past week, the IJOEH publishes a paper by an ACOEM member calling out the slacker peer review that brought us false science policy claiming scientifically proven NOT plausible. And the Federal GAO is recommending that it is time for the Federal government to issue public health statements that are consistent between all agencies, while noting there is indeed plausibility that many of the symptoms are caused/exaserbated by damp indoor environments/mold. So within a week, one paper outs what is NOT legit science, while the other brings greater light to what IS legit science. Posted before, the recommendations of the Federal GAO are quite good. I think the recommendations of the IJOEH/Craner paper are quite good, too: 1. The ACOEM should develop a formal process for Declarations of Conflicts of Interest for all its members and staff. These Declarations should also be adopted by JOEM and its editorial and publications staffs. ACOEM should establish a course of conduct for when potential conflicts of interest influence the practice of OEM, and enforce it accordingly. An expedient but reliable method to verify the veracity and completeness of such declarations, particularly as they relate to disclosure of expert witness work in related litigation, must be developed and consistently implemented. 2. JOEM needs to develop a more rigorous system of peer review. Management and editorial staff should not make exceptions from the formal review process. 3. The ACOEM should develop a formal Transparency Policy to ensure that members are fully informed of all activities and non-members can be informed without impediment. The minutes of various committee meetings should be placed on the website and made available to members. All correspondence between officers, staff, and committee members should be put into electronic format and copied to the website. 4. The ACOEM Code of Conduct must be extended to include many topics ignored by the current document. The ACOEM membership should develop a Code that is enforceable, and one that would not allow a recurrence of the problems that have characterized the development of the ACOEM Mold Statement. Slowly but surely, we are getting there!!!! Sharon Noonan Kramer **************BUY Indiana and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD today! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1209326865x1200539441/aol?redir=http://\ www.indianajones.com/site/index.html) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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