The ACOEM Critique and Cheryl Wisecup

[Guest guest]

Can you believe that Cheryl Wisecup had the nerve to put this out in her

GIHN newsletter like she is helping to stop ACOEM? She has been their

biggest help in stopping us to get the info out of the deceit of that org for he

purpose of winning lawsuits based on phoney science.

If people run from speaking out themselves to CYA, then they should not put

out the work of others who are not afraid and take the brunt for speaking

out.

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From:

Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:11 PM

Subject: Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker's response to ACOEM 2011

To:

Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker has written a response to the ACOEM 2011 position

statement. ACOEM (American College of Occupational and Environmental

Medicine) published their first position statement on the health effects of

mold

in 2002. ACOEM 2002 has been used repeatedly by insurance companies and

defense attorneys to deny legitimate claims. ACOEM's 2011 paper was just

released, and it's basically just a repeat of the 2002 version. They

completely ignored all of the science and research papers that have occurred

since

2002.

Here are a few excerpts from Dr. Shoemaker's response:

" Stated plainly: ACOEM 2002 was nothing more than junk science. As we

see, so is ACOEM 2011. "

" The approach taken by ACOEM 2011 is just the same as what we see from

defense interests in mold litigation. They have no data, no research, no human

health information on people with ongoing exposure and no data on

parameters seen in people with ongoing illness. All they want us to do is to

ignore their methods; ignore their desultory approach to the process of

decision-making; and ignore their intentional deletion, distortion and

misrepresentation of published data. "

" Surely, ACOEM 2011 would demonstrate a comprehensive and objective review

of ALL peer reviewed papers on the ecology and physiology of WDB, the

potential sources of illness and their interactions, as well as looking at new

human health information. That is what we would expect to see. No, none

of the above occurred. Of the 78 references, there were 37 from before

1997: 41 from 1997 to 2002 and none since. NONE. "

Here's the link for Dr. Shoemaker's response...

_http://www.survivingmold.com/legal-resources/publications/acoem_

(http://www.survivingmold.com/legal-resources/publications/acoem)

Here's the link for ACOEM 2011...

_http://www.survivingmold.com/docs/Resources/ACOEM/ACOEM_mold_pdf_3_2011.pdf

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(http://www.survivingmold.com/docs/Resources/ACOEM/ACOEM_mold_pdf_3_2011.pdf)