I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In May 2009 he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, succeeding his longtime friend and collaborator Dr. Jim Kim.[1]He currently resides in Kigali, Rwanda. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), an international health and social justice organization. His work is the subject of Tracy Kidder's 2003 book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World. Dr. Farmer was mentioned as a possible nominee to head the U.S. Agency for International Development[2], but his nomination was reportedly blocked by the White House[3]. In August 2009, Paul Farmer was named United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti to assist in improving the economic and social conditions of the Caribbean nation[4].
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Paul Farmer. I know him. Good man, good doctor. Practices "plantation medicine" like me.
By the way, that earthquake was centered in my dads hometown.
Do you have family there DMG?
Yep. On my dads side. No word yet from anyone, but the phonelines are down and cell phone coverage is sporadic. My friend from med school had apparently JUST left. Supposed to be going back with a medical team, not sure when or how. We are trying to make that happen.
DMG,
i am praying for your fam....
DMG said...
"Paul Farmer. I know him. Good man, good doctor. Practices "plantation medicine" like me."
Practices Plantation medicine?
Like you?
Does he?
Says who?
I think he practices medicine quite differently from you.
Quite differently than the Plantation.
On what medical issue have you EVER gone against the Plantation like Paul Farmer?
"In this impassioned, sometimes unwieldly, synthesis of history and report, Harvard-based Farmer, who alternates research with medical practice in rural Haiti, offers an indictment of American policy. He traces Haiti's long standing injustice from the sufferings of the 18th century slave economy, and the post-revolution establishment of a still-persistent feudal economy to the U.S. Marine invasion in 1915 and our subsequent support, based on business interests and anticommunism, for tyrants like Papa Doc Duvalier. The democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a 1991 coup shortly after he began to redress Haiti's ugly inequalities;
Farmer (AIDS and Accusation) notes how MEDIA REPORTS HAVE MESHED with the Bush administration's line, and criticizes the Clinton administration's inaction. Departing from his historical narrative, Farmer also decries harassing U.S. policy toward Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba;
describes the torture death of a peasant as an outgrowth of U.S. military training;
and suggests that AIDS in Haiti should not be blamed on images of squalor, but more on "an established political and economic crisis."
American remorse, he suggests, would be the first step toward a new commitment to justice.
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Nah Doc. Farmer sounds like he would be more comfortable at DV.Net than you pretend not to be.
Good luck with your fam DMG. I wish you and yours the best during trying times.
KP
Yeah, like me. I don't think one can stutter while typing.
Paul is a well trained infectious disease expert, trained at Duke, Harvard and the Brigham. Maybe you should read one of his books before you assume he's a half baked crackpot like you. He lays a great case for HIV/AIDS and MDR-Tuberculosis. I suggest starting with:
"Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor", and don't neglect the detailed footnotes; that are numerous, detailed, and all WELL SOURCED. The man goes against the grain, but not against science.
As usual, know what you are talking about before saying anything.
"and suggests that AIDS in Haiti should not be blamed on images of squalor, but more on "an established political and economic crisis"-MOTI quoting Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Weren't you and your flying monkey's just a few days ago touting Duesberg's hypothesis that AIDS was based on "the result of multiple factors, including drug use, stress and nutritional deficiency".
Maybe you should read Paul Farmer's plan for getting low cost AIDS medications to patients in Haiti, and fighting for development of new meds for multi-drug resistant TB.
Paul Farmer Lecture at Johns Hopkins. Why would you try to toss Paul Farmer into this, like I don't know who he is? It's been awhile, but I have corresponded with the man, I know what he's all about, and admire him greatly. Make no mistake, the man is a scientist.
Paul Farmer on HIV/AIDS objectives for Africa and other places.
Still grinning?
What ...?
and?
all that to say what? He believes HIV is the cause of AIDS?
That makes him a Plantation MD like you?
Come on bra.
Got my hopes all up.
I thought you were linking to an example of your personal opposition to any memetic product of the Plantation.
Doc Farmer says AIDS is the product of "an established political and economic crisis."
There is more to AIDS than HIV.
The billions of dollars spent on "testing for HIV" and condom propaganda was a product of politics, not science.
The reason you parrot terms like "crackpot" when referencing the work of Nobel winning scientists like Kary Mullis, who question the science of the HIV AIDS propaganda, is because you have been conditioned to do so.
Judging by the spirit of the above quote, I don't believe Farmer would do that.
He would examine the evidence and allow the facts to speak for themselves. You are a Plantation advocate. A maintainer of the status quo, because you are invested in plantation.
You are less interested in realizing the truth about AIDS than you are about not appearing to have been wrong.
No, I just like pointing out how simple you are. And how you use bits and pieces of articles to support your half truths...when if you look at the source in context says almost the complete opposite of what you are preaching.
I don't even think your plantation hypothesis is even valid. You live in this fantasy world of conspiracy theory. It's no wonder when true injustice is carried out that you don't have room in your ever shrinking dome to even consider it.
Maybe you should actually READ Pathologies of Power, since you brought up Farmer. It's a dense read. Puts a face on human suffering, but doesn't discount the underlying science. I doubt you'll crack the book. You never seem to crack anything but jokes. You talk about maintaining status quo. You would receive a long raucous round of laughter if you said that about me to anyone who knows me. While I've been kicking in doors, you've spent your time outside the door, talking about what's inside of a room you've never even bothered to enter.
Your ignorance bores me. Come with something thought provoking.
There are conspiracies in the world, but they are more complex and multifactorial than you realize.
No, it's you who enjoys the status quo. You like to keep folks ignorant. It's this group of people who hang on your every word. But they don't know any better.
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