Re: Army studies--Brain's response to neurotoxicants

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Thanks for including me on this email. I will need weeks to read and re-read

these papers, but, from my first scan of the research enclosed, I can see a plus

and a minus of these lab studies. The plus side is that the researcher's

hypothesis is that mycotoxins can bring on the early-onset of diseases that

already have the sympathy of the general public, such as Parkinsons, ALS, and

Alzheimers. I have given up all hope that the symptoms that WE have all

experienced will ever get public recognition as a distinct illness. But, if

research, such as contained in your email, can establish a link between

mycotoxins and recognized diseases, which already have their own telethons, the

public will be more open to accept our assertions, if we claim the same

mycotoxin link.

 

The minus side of the same research papers, is that all the studies, with mice,

seem to have a maximum duration of two weeks. If we all drank a highly-diluted

dose of arsenic, for two weeks, it would probably not kill us. The papers state

that we have to study the military personnel who were exposed in Iraq, to

monitor the long-term consequences of exposure. But, since we live in the real

world, where all research has to be " funded " , I can't see the liklihood of such

research obtaining funding, when research, using mice, is the guaranteed source

of research funding. The " scientific " mind-set is that the " variables " of

research can be more tightly contolled using mice instead of humans.

 

Maybe the answer to our predicament is that all people living with exposure to

mold and mycotoxins be given, by the government, a cage full of mice, to live

with them, since the scientific establishment is more likely to believe the

results of the mouse dissections, than they would believe our verbal description

of our suffering. The analogy would be to the canarys that coal miners used to

take into mines, to react to bad air conditions.

 

Joe

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In case you haven't seen these studies....

Dr. Harbison of USF was involved.  Keep in mind that Harbison works for

State Farm in mold cases, and in his testimony he says that toxic mold doesn't

do anything----it's not even an allergen.

It's interesting that he can be involved in studies that prove that mycotoxins

are dangerous, but when he testifies in lawsuits he says that mycotoxins don't

do anything.