The Tomato Effect - Film on environmental medicine and MCS

[Guest guest]

The Tomato Effect is a film being screened in

various places in the US and available on CD,

which takes its start from a personal story of

tragic death to unravel what seems like dirty

trick opposition to environmental medicine...

 

might be interesting.

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

 

http://www.rabble-rouser.com/about.html

 

 

It's the ten-year anniversary of the death of

Faun Kime's father in a mysterious mountain

climbing accident and The Tomato Effect begins at

a trailhead in the high sierras of California.

Maps are examined, supplies checked, and

backpacks heave-hoed into place. Bristling with

nervous energy the group gathered for the

expedition hits the trail. Faun has at last

mustered the strength to begin an investigation

into the circumstances of her father's death and

the head of Search and Rescue has agreed to take

her to the spot where he recovered her father's

body.

 

Despite local authorities ruling her father's

death an accident, conspiracy theories bloomed

overnight and persisted. This was partly because

when her father was killed, there was only one

witnessŠanother climber who was a stranger to the

Kime family and friendsŠand some felt his story

was suspect. But also fueling these suspicions

was the terrible timing of his death.

 

When he died, Zane R. Kime MD, had been

practicing Environmental Medicine and had become

the target of a governmental prosecution against

this specialty. This lawsuit threatened the

vested interests of the chemical industry and the

outcome looked hopeful for a decision in his

favor. However, with his death, the case was

dismissed and some say, the threat eliminated.

When Faun's mother hired a private investigator

to explore the matter further, the other climber

threatened to sueŠand then disappeared.

 

The conspiracy theories drove Faun to start

exploring her father's death. However, she is

soon unraveling his controversial life as a

physician practicing Environmental Medicine.

Environmental Medicine, like much of alternative

medicine has considerable opposition. This is

partly because it's a newer more progressive

medicine. Throughout history, the old paradigm in

science has been slow to accept the new. But in

this era of unchecked capitalism, Faun discovers

that advancement in alternative medicine has

nearly ground to a haltŠif it doesn't profit the

pharmaceutical or chemical industry.

 

Faun narrows her investigation to one

particularly contentious issue and example of

this phenomenonŠthe diagnosis and treatment of

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) or Gulf War

Syndrome. Official recognition of this syndrome

would translate to billions of dollars in

liability to the chemical industry. As toxic tort

liabilities have increased across the country, an

alliance has emerged between the chemical

industry and physicians who are part of the old

paradigm that denounce MCS. Large sums of money

were paid to these physicians to testify that

victims claiming to have MCS were psychotic and

that physicians who diagnosed it were quacks.

Memos evidence the chemical industry's strategy

to terminate Environmental Medicine; educate the

state medical licensing boards (government

agencies, not to be confused with the AMA) across

the nation about the illegitimacy of this new

field of medicine. It worked. Starting in the

early 1980's, prosecutions to revoke the licenses

of physicians practicing Environmental Medicine,

and alternative medicine, began nationwide.

 

The Tomato Effect chronicles a microcosm of this

tragedy when an entire group of ten physicians in

the San Francisco area are run out of medicine by

the Medical Board of California. However, Zane R.

Kime, MD refused to capitulate and fought back in

a legal case that progressed to the appellate

court, gained nationwide attention and wide

medical interest. But as everyone waited for the

decision, he was killed in an " accident " and the

case was dismissed. Faun's investigation not only

uncovers shocking secrets about her father's

death, but the disturbing truth about the state

of health care.

 

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