Re: UMNs Woolley perpetuates mass rape-like behavior
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Feb 20 16:16:42 2001
i guess he's not a big fan of evidence-based medicine.
art
At Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Robert J Woolley wrote:
>
>Guess who?! Haven't heard from ol' One-Note Todd in a long time!
>
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>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:40:02 -0800
>From: Todd Gastaldo <gastaldo@gte.net>
>To: letters@daily.umn.edu, tips@daily.umn.edu
>Subject: UMNs Woolley perpetuates mass rape-like behavior
>
>"It is the mission of the [University of Minnesota] Academic Health Center
>to be the leader in ethical, innovative and efficient discovery and
>dissemination of knowledge to enhance the health of the women of Minnesota,
>the nation and the world."
>http://www.med.umn.edu/obgyn/
>
>OPEN LETTER
>
>Minnesota Daily
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>To the Editor:
>
>Robert J. Woolley, MD indicated in his Feb. 20 editorial (Guns effective
>defense against rape) that the University of Minnesota mixes "forcible sex
>offenses" with "events that would not be classified as rape or attempted
>rape."
>http://www.daily.umn.edu/daily/2001/02/20/editorial_opinions/oo0220/
>via http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.0102/0537.html
>
>Coincidentally, I, too, have been writing about forcible sex offenses which
>are not officially classified as rape or attempted rape.
>
>See Will Michele TAKE ACTION?/Gang rape is kind of an understatement...
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1073
>
>I am SURE these forcible sex offenses occur ROUTINELY on the University of
>Minnesota campus - indeed - I am quite sure they are being TAUGHT to
>University of Minnesota medical students - just like they were taught back
>when Dr. Woolley was a medical student.
>
>CLEARLY - the forcible sex offenses to which I refer are quite rape-like -
>involving as they do routine mass slashing of vaginas and penises.
>
>Being a doctor of chiropractic (DC), I am especially interested in the
>routine vagina slashing because it is associated with routine GRUESOME
>spinal manipulation of babies at birth - with MDs sometimes actually ripping
>spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords. (It is a little known fact that - as
>MDs gripe about DELICATE spinal adjustments performed by DCs - MDs are
>performing massive numbers of GRUESOME spinal manipulations on babies.)
>
>I am currently waiting for a reply from one of the world's top
>neuroscientists regarding whether he thinks American MDs are "lying" or
>lying to perpetuate their mass routine rape-like behaviors...
>
>Rama: Are MDs 'lying' or lying? Phantom fetal heads!
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1090
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>When I began discussing American medicine's mass routine rape-like behaviors
>on an international e-mail list for obstetricians and gynecologists (which,
>incidentally, is where I read of Dr. Woolley's rape article)...
>
>Dr. Woolley initially pretended he wasn't comfortable with my censorship...
>
>"Ignoring is a much better option, IMHO. Unless there is an *extremely* high
>threshold for cutting somebody off (with the exception of non-professionals
>who don't belong by the list's charter), it has a slippery slope tendency to
>call for silencing those we disagree with."
>http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0169.html
>
>But then - after I was censored (I can still *receive* OBGYNL posts - I just
>can't post) - Dr. Woolley said I had been censored "with good reason."
>
>He wrote:
>
>"It's easiest just to ignore him. Your post here mentioning his name (as
>well as mine here in reply) will undoubtedly generate more output from him,
>always with the same basic content. The man is a few fries short of a Happy
>Meal, if you know what I mean.As far as know, he's the only person ever to
>be barred from this list. And with good reason. If you see his name, delete
>sight unseen. He will beg, cajole, and challenge you to forward his stuff to
>the list, since he is blocked from doing so himself. Please don't."
>http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9812/0788.html
>
>Dr. Woolley - the gun-toting ostensible anti-rape activist - is actually an
>indirect promoter of mass routine rape-like MD behaviors - many of which are
>occurring right there on the University of Minnesota campus!
>
>Remember:
>
>"It is the mission of the [University of Minnesota] Academic Health Center
>to be the leader in ethical, innovative and efficient discovery and
>dissemination of knowledge to enhance the health of the women of Minnesota,
>the nation and the world."
>http://www.med.umn.edu/obgyn/
>
>Routine slashing of vaginas and routine gruesome manipulation of babies'
>spines does NOT "enhance the health of women" - or babies... Some of them
>DIE from this mass routine rape-like behavior!
>
>Will the Minnesota Daily help University of Minnesota's Academic Health
>Center accomplish its Mission?
>
>--
>Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C.
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>IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm not licensed anywhere - by choice...
>
>Back around 1990 when I *was* licensed (and had been for 10 years) - a man
>claiming to be Michael Schroeder, Esq. (attorney for the California Board of
>Chiropractic Examiners in a lawsuit
>brought by 10 MD-obstetricians and others) - told me it was not within my
>scope of practice as a California licensed DC to inform women regarding
>grisly
>MD-obstetrician birth practices.
>
>Coincidentally, a Michael Schroeder, Esq. - former chairman of
>the California Republican Party - sued me for one million dollars for
>defamation - for claiming that he improperly used hundreds of thousands in
>DC licensing fees to defend Rule 302, a regulatory definition of
>chiropractic that he had written - and which had been publicly pilloried as
>being "unlawful" by a
>former assistant DA/public defender.
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>Incredibly, in taking *me* to task for indicating publicly that Mr.
>Schroeder's Rule 302 was unlawful, Acupuncture Today editor Donald M.
>Petersen, Jr. "forgot" to mention that he had printed Attorney Prescott
>doing the same thing!
>(For details, go to http://groups.google.com and search "Prescott Schroeder
>Rule 302" )
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>FACT: 10-MD-obstetricians were in part the cause of Mr. Schroeder earning
>hundreds of thousands of dollars if DC licensing fees in the Rule 302
>matter...
>
>QUESTION: WHY isn't "chiropractic" attorney Schroeder helping me stop
>routine gruesome spinal manipulation by MDs who are obviously lying and
>closing birth canals?
>
>Posted to the usenet (misc.health.alternative, sci.med, misc.kids.pregnancy)
>Before we teach more MDs how to manipulate the spines of adults"
>http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/18/26/21.html
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>..maybe we should stop MDs from GRUESOMELY manipulating the spines of
>babies?
>(Go to http://groups.google.com and search "Pardons in advance for MDs" )
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>Copied to Acupuncture Today editor Donald M. Petersen, Jr at Don@DCMedia.com
>and Don@MPAmedia.com
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>Copied to Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners/OBCE Exec. Dir. Dave
>McTeague via oregon.obce@state.or.us
>
>For details on OBCE Exec. Dir. McTeague's foot-dragging, go to
>http://groups.google.com - search "OBCE/Whether to x-ray Medicare
>patients/Atlas Shrugs"
>
--
art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
