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To: GraceZ who wrote (24986)11/2/2004 4:43:34 AM
From: Elroy JetsonRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
After I wrote than note I recalled one other trait I've found common among alcoholics / addicts whether using or sober.

Black and White thinking. Things are either good or bad, right or wrong. There a complete lack of nuance

Some of the research funded by donations which passed through our 501(c)3 non-profit, particularly in gene therapy, could not have received IRB approvals (let alone FDA approvals) and as such was not strictly legal.

On the advice of counsel, our board needed to assure that the money donated went to a "charitable purpose" but we are not obliged by any law to ensure that the research funded was "legal". The burden of proof for "legal" falls on the research scientist.

We had only one board member who had a problem, a constant annoying problem, with donations which might fall into this area. Guess who. She would get her mind fixed on some concept, unfounded by reality, and harp on it over and over like some dog with her juicy new bone. You just wanted to shoot yourself rather than listen to her any longer. Prior to asking her to leave we only dealt with her by mail or messenger.

Her husband is a senior partner at our law firm, so you can see perhaps how this situation came to be - we all like her husband. Maybe he figured the more he involved her in other activities the less time he'd have to spend dealing with her himself.

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