Feres Doctrine and IOM Meeting in Texas
Barbara Cragnotti informs me that on ABC news this evening there will more information on the Feres Doctrine. I would assume on how that protects the DOD from doing about what ever it wants to do with no recourse for the Veterans/Widows…VA belongs in that category also as Veterans cannot hold them accountable for anything even at individual level.
Several E-mails have come in on the IOM Public Meeting to review the health effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposures to herbicides and if I was attending.
This information is as follows:
The Committee to Review the Health Effects
in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides
(Seventh Biennial Update)
Register Online
June 19, 2008 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Hyatt Regency San Antonio
Chula Vista Room
123 Losoya Street
San Antonio, TX
I will not be attending due to lack of funds but primarily I see no sense in arguing/debating with a wall. Without documented process and levels of evidentiary evidence that is required or what level of measurable criteria either they think is assigned by their contract or their own self-imposed requirements then any information/argument provide against a subjective processes becomes a moot point and a waste of an argument/time/resources which many of us do not have in order to compete with VA/IOM.
Until Congress establishes the level of certainty that they want and then mandate with audits to both VA and IOM then we are just spitting in the wind and tugging on the cape of those that not only have an entirely different agenda but also a conflict of interest in outcomes. Sometimes science and integrity are not on the same level.
With that said, I hope that anyone local will attend and gather up any data and send it to me or some of our folks fighting these presumptive issues, which should be concluded as presumptive persistent damaging processes; not individual single ICD outcomes that must correlate with some dose response for all victims.
The information might come out on Parkinson’s while I am gone but it looks like that is going to be a go as an associated disorder with congressional action.
Kelley
Tibbo 20/05/08 at 03:32 AM #2
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Correction - should be on CBS news
Sorry folks!
Kelley
Wally Ward 10/06/08 at 09:22 PM #3
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The IOM may have a surprise guest at this meeting, one of the original authors of the Australian Study!