Re: Worst Burnout So Far.
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Posted by Al Gordon on 12:05:18 2008/04/22
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Worst Burnout So Far. posted by Marie
That must have been devastating for your whole family, Marie. I have said many times that it must be a lot worse to have a child with diabetes than to have it oneself as an adult, as I do.
"He said that he *really* wanted someone to blame". Well, there are a few people and institutions who work hard to make sure that any promising method of restoring normal blood glucose is crushed.
We could start with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) who recently boasted of raising over a billion dollars from donors, but who have contributed nothing to ending diabetes, and have acted to undermine or deny funding to several promising research initiatives. Meantime, JDRF supports human islet transplants using immunosuppressants (something that if 100% successful would still leave 99.9% of diabetics untreated), as well as monitors and pumps, all of which keep diabetes alive and the dollars flowing.
Then he could blame gutless politicians who cower before the unscientific but politically correct alarmism of animal rights groups, sustainability councils, and other fear mongers.
Next, a lot of blame belongs to the International Xenotransplantation Association, bankrolled by the world's 6 major manufacturers of toxic immunosuppressive drugs, while pretending to be an objective scientific group. The drug companies are terrified of any initiative that would allow the transplant of foreign tissue without the recipient spending thousands of dollars a month for life for toxic anti-rejection drugs.
I could go on, because there are so many vested interests in making sure that nothing threatens diabetes, and to hell with your son and millions like him.
We will prevail, but decades later than it had to be. And history will write of all those who committed acts of unspeakable treachery and deceit to keep this disease alive.
Al
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