The Canary Report

ABC’s Nightline in the dark on MCS

Posted on Aug 07, 2008 by Susie Collins in Blog, MCS, Susie Collins

Patricia Ann Rattray at Planet Thrive writes a well-researched, scathing report on ABC Nightline’s March 20 coverage of the orchestrated attack on Dr. William Rea and his treatment center for the chemically injured in Dallas, Texas.

Nightline’s coverage of the review of Dr. Rea’s practice was misleading. [Terry] Moran did not report that the review [on Rea] was initiated by a single anonymous complaint filed regarding treatment for five patients who aren’t complaining. In fact, all five are still patients of Dr. Rea’s, two of them reporting he was responsible for saving their lives. All five patients have written to the Texas State Medical Board protesting the complaint filed about their treatment. The broadcast also fails to inform the public that these same types of license reviews are going on all over the country against physicians practicing alternative medicine, initiated by the same type of anonymous complaint. Nor does it mention the fact that Sherry Rogers, M.D., author of “Detoxify or Die”, has called Dr. Rea a “doctor’s doctor”; meaning it is frequently Rea that other doctors go to when they are chronically ill or diagnosed with cancer.

The show implied that the Texas State Medical Board had initiated the review based on some sort of consensus or research and that they had a general proactive state of concern for the health of the public. “The treatments that he’s giving we believe can be dangerous to the public health,” states Marie Robinson lawyer for TMB. One might be suspect of the Texas Medical Board’s real concern for public health since no one has died from homeopathy or sauna at Dr. Rea’s clinic and yet 103 people have died in the state of Texas since 1995 in either bizarre murders—usually by family members—or suicides (many times children) that are directly attributable to the side effects of psychiatric medication⁶ and the Board is taking no action on this.

Link.

It’s a three-part series, Part 2 is here, Part 3 coming soon.

Link to Nightline report, be sure to watch the video. Check out the doctor who says MCS is a psychological problem. He ought to go work for the tobacco industry. The comment section to the report is also pretty interesting.

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