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In an environment of abuse by authorities, nearly everyone, including people you thought you could trust, survive as best they can, as often as not by betraying others to their deaths. Sometimes they call it "taking the high road." PSIO Ed Keyserlingk summarized a complaint as health officials "not doing enough to help" when in fact the complaint was that health officials were lying about the availability of a publicly-insured, legally-obligating method of diagnosing and thereby protecting patients from being injured or killed by acts of commission in government health facilities.

For every 100 professionals who offer to help, 98 will want to use you as needs substantiation for flaky theories, dangerous clinical practices or the unethical sale of treatments and medicine. The Canadian Society for Environmental Medicine has replaced the actual history with a self-aggrandizing revisionist version that invisibilizes patients' right to protection. They have responded to criticism by tying their flaky theories to the credibility of their patients. If you organize to fight back, they will use their hold over ignorant or desperate consumers to sabotage. At CSEM, the adulation of foolishness takes precedence over the protection of human beings, over healing, sometimes over common decency.

Abusers and agencies of remedy will try to blame YOU personally for the fact that negligence continues. It's called an "ad hominem" defense. Dr. Michael C. Labossiere describes it this way: "An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting)."

24 June 2007 - In its handling of environmental sensitivities, the Canadian Human Rights Commission is ignoring five elephants and a gorilla.