False witness Wall Street Journal - New York, NY

[Guest guest]

Bob,

You know me too well! Of course I jumped on that WSJ article and requested a correction to the erroneous statement of "according to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, current scientific evidence does not support the proposition that molds or the mycotoxins produced by molds, whether inhaled in home, school, or office environments, adversely affect human health"

Want to see who the writer of this article, Lester Brinkman, is?

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=mcl46a00 & fmt=pdf & ref=results

Small world!

Thanks for reminding me. I need to call them.

Sharon

[Guest guest]

Has anyone seen this article in the IAQ Digest 12-06-06? I'm surprised that

Sharon has not jumped on this>

Mold litigation is still another example of a mass tort infected by fraudulent

medical and scientific evidence. Mold is a ubiquitous fungus to which everyone

is exposed; according to the American College of Occupational and Environmental

Medicine, current scientific evidence does not support the proposition that

molds or the mycotoxins produced by molds, whether inhaled in home, school, or

office environments, adversely affect human health. The scientific evidence

notwithstanding, mold litigation, a multibillion dollar industry, proceeds

because a small number of experts paid fees of as much as $10,000 a day have

regularly testified that mold causes a terrifying array of diseases from lung

cancer to cirrhosis of the liver. ...

Bob , MS, CIH, CIEC