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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22956)	4/16/2005 4:20:06 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81019

Re: Transcript: A Doctor Who Has Examined Terri Talks with Hannity & Colmes A somewhat dubious reference, to put it mildly: Hammesfahr appeared on Scarborough Country the same night and received a similar introduction as a Nobel Prize nominee. Problem is, that's not quite the truth -- Hammesfahr was never officially nominated for a Nobel Prize. In 1999, a U.S. Congressman recommended him in a letter to the Nobel Committee for his work with stroke patients. But according to the committee's Web site, such unsolicited letters constitute "invalid nominations" and are not considered. Hammesfahr's professional credibility has in fact come into question before. In 2001, the Florida Department of Health accused him of falsely advertising a neurological treatment and exploiting a patient for financial gain, according to a report from the Associated Press today. With regard to Hammesfahr's views on the Schiavo case, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a bioethicist at University of California, San Diego, told the AP, "He's a quack, to put it the politest way I can." -- Julia Scott 66.102.9.104

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22956)	4/16/2005 4:52:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81019

Re: ...indeed, doubt did exist, she should have been given the benefit of that doubt particularly in the circumstance that her future care would not have placed any demand on public resources or facilities. All she required was feeding and basic hygiene and that her parents were prepared to give as, indeed, many parents give brain damaged or retarded children. Likewise, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of homeless and trailer dwellers in the US are merely in want of "feeding and basic hygiene" yet are deprived of both... You talk as if EVERYBODY in the US was actually rolling in it. The US, a country without poor, without homeless, without misery, without illegals and minorities struggling to make both ends meet or just get over the next winter... in short, an American Shangri-la that caters to all its fit citizens yet shamefully "exterminates" its disabled and its brain-damaged out of petty, budgetary stinginess! Unfortunately, such is not the case and the real shame is that the very same people who've been picketing the late Schiavo's clinic, crying for maintaining her in her vegetative agony forever, never cared, never gave a damn, about the plight of their less fortunate fellow citizens. The same fanatical, religious, fascistic hysteria prompts them to vilify the state/medical authorities who dare frustrate God's will (to keep Mrs Schiavo in a hopeless vegetative stasis) and, at the same time, to call for less taxes to help the needy --go figure. Homeless, poor freeze in US cold wave By a team of WSWS correspondents 5 February 2003 wsws.org