Here some information emailed from some work colleagues. Jason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:46 PM Subject: URGENT - Fwd: Surgeon General Colleagues, Please see info below from Hank Schlinger and Jim Todd, and take a few minutes to email the Obama team if you share my opposition to their nominating as Surgeon General a media personality who has repeatedly demonstrated his blatant disregard for sound science and his active promotion of pseudoscience. Please also pass this on to others who might be concerned. ___________________ Read the information below from Jim Todd and then please take a moment and go to the Obama website below and ask the Team NOT to consider Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General. If enough people oppose this possible nomination, maybe they will drop his name from consideration. (see my comments to President Elect Obama below) http://change.gov/page/content/contact/ "CNN reports that Sanjay Gupta, who has actively promoted facilitated communication as a valid and useful communication method, is being considered for United States Surgeon General. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/gupta.surgeon.general/index.html Here are some links to Gupta's promotion of FC. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/10/giving-autism-voice.html http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/shows/autism.world/fc/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/02/acd.02.html http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/121-swift-november-9-2007.html http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/11/autism-finding-amanda.html As far as developmental disabilities are concerned, Gupta seems not to understand the depth of his ignorance. Real people suffer real harm because of his advocacy of autism pseudoscience and his promotion of ersatz experts over real scientists." Dear Obama Transition Team, I am writing to express my strong opposition to Dr. Sajnay Gupta for U.S. Surgeon general. Dr. Gupta has actively promoted facilitated communication (FC) as a valid communication method for people with autism. FC has been thoroughly discredited scientifically, a fact which Dr. Gupta refuses to accept, opting instead for anecdotes and personal observation as evidence of its validity. The job of Surgeon General of the United States is too important to be offered to someone who has consistently promoted a pseudoscientific technique that has harmed so many children and their families. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
