----- Original Message -----
From: <tpinfo@healthwatcher.net>
To: <stsolomo@soilandhealth.org>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Email from the soilandhealth.org web site
> Name: Terry Polevoy
> Email: tpinfo@healthwatcher.net
>
> Message:
> Raymond Obomsawin is not an MD. He obtained his other degrees
via a
> correspondence school.
>
> Please correct your web site.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Terry,
Before I make any changes in my website please provide me
with a bit of
further info.
Who are you? What is your connection with this matter?
How do you know about Obomsawin's qualifications?
Steve
-------------------------------------------
Dear Steve,
You asked me who I am and what is my connection in the matter
of Raymond
Obomsawin who you list on your web site.
I am a medical doctor who earned my degree legitimately by
going to a real
medical school, and taking a real medical residency. He has no
degree in
medicine from a recognized school anywhere. His PhD is
from a distance learning school in California and several States
refuse to
recognize their degrees.
Web sites that support his views may want to consider whether
they should
continue to use either of those designations after his name when
they quote
him. He has had no training as far as I can tell that would allow
him to
make any scientific or medical claims.
Here are a few thoughts about him that I think you may find interesting.
http://www.pathguy.com/antiimmu.htm - Ed Friedlander's site
"Several people have written me asking about a Raymond
Obomsawin, variously
described as an MD or PhD, who writes anti-immunization materials
which you
can buy. According to some websites, which I'll let you find on
your own,
Dr. Obomsawin was commissioned in 1992 by the Canadian International
Development Agency to prepare a report to guide its immunization
policy. But
when Dr. Obomsawin's report was submitted, it was suppressed by
sinister
conspirators. A search of the NIH database shows that Raymond
Obomsawin has
only one peer publication, a popular article from 1978 for Canadian
nurses
about Indian health issues. If you want to believe that the Canadian
government really hired this guy as an elite scientific consultant,
you're
free to do so. Of course, I don't know one way or the other."
He has fundamentalist religious views:
http://english.sdaglobal.org/news/fb28.htm
http://english.sdaglobal.org/testimony/supnatr.htm
http://english.sdaglobal.org/sermon/feastday.htm
http://christianparty.net/vaccinations.htm - The title of this
page is How
Jews Kill With Vaccination.
It's a Holocaust denial web site.
Search for vaccine on their web site displays this:
http://www.crazyrhino.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?UrlFilter=&DocPerPage=20&PageNo=0&MemberId=christianparty&Query=vaccine
http://tinyurl.com/54q6u
http://www.trans4mind.com/Cry_of_the_Heart.pdf - His name came
up on this
anti-vax slide show.
Check out this idiotic statement attributed to:
http://www.lifestylestherapeutics.com/TSOOzone.html
It is now clear that the body needs no 'help' of the sort provided
by
vaccination; that antibodies in the blood stream are not required
to protect
the body; and that vaccination can cause immune suppression, permanent
nervous system damage, and growth stunting. There is also strong
evidence
that vaccination can actually cause the diseases it was meant
to prevent.
This view has gained support from the writing of a report commissioned
by
the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) from Dr.
Raymond
Obomsawin in 1992.
In his detailed report, Dr. Obomsawin found that the idea of
induced
immunity was an illusion founded on:
a.. discredited scientific theories
b.. the refusal to examine contrary data
c.. the lack of proper follow up assessment of immunized children; and
d.. poor statistical methods.
R Obomsawin
2708 Dupont St
Ottawa, ON K1V 8N3
(613) 321-0038
http://www.eco-expo.org/EFR_Consultant_Profiles.htm
Member - Oneida & Abenaki 1st Nations
Marital and Family Status: Married since Aug. 1976 to Marie-Louise,
with
three children (ages 21 to 25) Sunrise, Sunbeam & Sundown
Coordinates: 2708 Dupont Street
Ottawa, Ontario,Canada K1V 8N3
Telephone: 613-321-0038 or 315-361-4926
E-Mail 1robomsawin@sprint.ca <mailto:1robomsawin@sprint.ca>
- Introduction
Raymond Obomsawin holds over two and a half decades of professional
experience domestically and internationally in the fields of human,
community and institutional development. His broad background
demonstrates
proven competencies in all phases of program and project development
viz.
research, planning, implementation, management, and evaluation.
He holds a
B. Sc. Degree in Health Education and Communications, Masters
Degree in
Development Education, and Ph D. with concentrations in Health
Science and
Human Ecology from CPU, San Rafael, Ca. A delineation of his salient
professional experiences, skills, and achievements follow
More links:
http://www.duffyslaw.com/current45.htm - This is from a chiropractic
site
from Geneva, Ohio.
http://www.duffyslaw.com/ - home page click on Dr. Duffy
Dr Daniel H Duffy Jr, Mrs Cecilia P Duffy RN, Dr Daniel H Duffy
Sr., Dr Dawn
D Duffy, Dr. John M Heidrich, Dr. Cecilia A Duffy-Heidrich, Dr.
Debby
Duffy-Johnson are all pictured on this site.
http://www.duffyslaw.com/books.htm - You can buy a book written
by cancer
quack back in 1911. I just can't wait until my copy arrives.
http://www.duffyslaw.com/current_index.htm
Search of the government of Canada's database reveals three
people with his
last name, but none of them belongs to him:
http://tinyurl.com/5xdsp
http://tinyurl.com/4vjmr - Search entire Canadian government
database for
Raymond
http://tinyurl.com/5z6km - One of his presentations entitled
Indigenous
Knowledge and Sustainable Development
--------------------------------------------------------
My reply:
Terry,
My email to the address you gave for Obomsawin bounced.
Fraud there may or may not be behind his book; I rather like
the thesis and presentation. I hold anti-immunisation viewpoints
myself. However, I have long been amazed that someone with a MD
would ever publish such a set of viewpoints as did Obomsawin,
so your story about him has considerable credibility with me.
Would you be willing to have your own email address posted
in the clear on my site as a claimant against Obomsawin's legitimacy?
Would you be willing to have the email letter you sent to me posted
on my website?
Steve Solomon
-------------------------------
To which Terry replied:
Yes you may use my name and e-mail address if you want and
include the
parts of the e-mail that you want.
I trust you judgment to do the correct thing.
Terry