Before the College of Physicians and Surgeons have a chance to get their pants on;
The investigator discovered, instead, that Dr. O'Connor's public statements about the health of Fort Chipewyan's residents contained "mistruths, inaccuracies and unconfirmed information."
He had reported five cases of a rare bile duct cancer called cholangiocarcinoma in the community of 1,200. There were two. The doctor had told reporters of a man who had died of colon cancer at the young age of 33. It was fiction. "No patient died at age 33 from colon cancer as reported by Dr. O'Connor," says the report.
"These weren't misdiagnoses; they were diagnoses that never occurred," says Hakique Virani, one of the three Health Canada physicians who lodged the original complaint with the college. "Our concern was, this is a guy who is saying there are a huge number -- five in a community that small is a huge number -- of rare cancers and there were outward associations being drawn between environmental concerns and cancers.
"Basically you're telling a group of people that you're likely to get these rare cancers and there's nothing you can do about it because of the place you live, the water that you drink and the food that you eat. If it's true, you're darn-straight to advocate. If not, you're really abusing the trust of an entire community."
CPSA Investigation Report (pdf)
h/t Mario
"Phil Alberstat, the Calgary born producer behind the documentary Downstream, the story of Dr. O'Connor's noble showdown against business and health authorities, says he doesn't feel misled." The fact that his "documentary" is as factual as a Mickey Moore movie doesn't matter. It's a cult.
To acknowledge that his work is garbage would go against the Goracle mantra and forever doom him to begging for Canadian arts grants.
Surprised? I'm not.
This is SOP for a group of people who refuse to be wrong on any issue. Lies are not lies because they advance the cause. End Justifies the Means thing.
The problem is these claims are cited and ran with without verification and as the NP Article states he will still be a hero to the movement.
from the same folks that brought in a half rotted fish claiming it was a mutant. the people at one with the land that had only been fishing there for 500 years and never come across a rotting fish. the media jumped on it like a fat boy on a twinkie, and hardly a mention when it was shown to be a rotting fish instead of something out of the simpsons.
Assets:
it's frightening how these 'truths' take on a life of their own.
I recollect twice the T. Star did a huge full page article of 'cancer causing agents in wine'. but the thing was proven to be a complete falsehood after the first run; that factoid was forgotten and a year or 2 later sure enough, there it was again on the back page of the lifestyles section.
and *another* retraction the next day.
people believe what the *want* to believe and that's the basis of a LOT of socio-political-technical-economic thought. this one will be no different. like gossip and rumour and half baked old wives tales with NO BASIS in fact.
time to renew my subscription to Skeptical Inquirer.
gawd help us all; sign of the times. "most intelligence species" BALDERDASH.
Despite the inaccuracies and outright lies of the environmental authorities, the proponents will continue to cling to the "we must believe them, they're experts" argument. Oddly, the strength of AGW conviction seems directly proportional to the number of years of liberal arts education. Future generations will be puzzled as to how educated people of technologically advanced nations could be so naive.
Is he wearing one of those "worker" hats? If so, one might do well to take anything he says with a dump-truck load of salt. Rock salt.
Colon Cancer Support groups are dedicated to raising awareness of colorectal cancer, which is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the western hemisphere. These Colon Cancer Support Groups, as they are called, have instilled a goal for themselves to educate as many people as possible, as early as possible, the risk factors and symptoms of colorectal cancer and to motivate people to get screened when they think it’s appropriate for them.
As I wrote in Reader Tips the morning this story broke in the National Post:
First, the hockey stick.
Now, the Fort Chip cancer rate.
(new) Wow, two fundamentals that supported the Gaia mythology are kicked out with impunity based on embellished results.
I'm glad that this faked science has seen the light of day and the liars who perpetrate it are exposed.
The beauty of real science is that it is NEVER settled until it is ultimately proven. Right, big Al, Nobel Prize winner and seller of snake oil?
yes indeed phantom.....he's wearing a 'greek fisherman' hat.
this bit of milliner's rag is a visual cue to the 'elect' that the wearer is darned sincere almost to the point of militancy...another chapeau that sends the same menacing paramilitary message is the dreaded 'tilley' hat....
as you can see i've made a study of this subject....i can just about guarantee every one of these folk has a beret hidden away somewhere waiting for the revolution to start...
Assets, bang on. To a left-winger, truth is whatever, no matter how blatant a lie, advances the their cause.
Kulak:
Which begs the question ... what is the utopia left-wingers would like to ‘progressively' take us to?
I'm sure out ancestors could answer that question quite clearly.
This is what happens when people like Obama, Gore, Soros, & Suzuki have spent too much time, as the main entree, on a Monkey Brain Buffet.
We humans are constantly seeking the truth; only crazy Shit House Rats claim to have found that truth.
The MSM are also shit house rats, they gobble up the turds of the delusional gods and follow them into the Abyss.
Has the MSM created enough distractions such that Obi Obama may betray America, re AGW, and that fact is lost in the noise?
as usual CBCpravda slow on the uptake as it doesnt fit their all to public agenda.
http://www.cbc.ca/search/cbc?q=fort%20chipewyan&spell=1&access=p&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=utf8&client=CBC&site=CBC&ie=utf8&site=CBC&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*&oe=utf8&safe=high
They're not just abusing the trust of a community; they're abusing the trust of the nation, The Public, since it is us who pay the bills.
Can I have an opt out form now please?
set you free, my wife's and my family have experienced the utopia that Chairman Mo, Soros, Layton and their "progressive" Liberal fellow travellers want to impose and did not appreciate it.
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the weirder a person looks, the further away I want to be from them.
Had a problem with one doctor in Toronto, he wore those long-nosed shoes made of exotic leather and a silky shirt with flower ornaments.
This bloke from NS surely would not be my doctor, not voluntarily.
I was in the Natural History Museum in Victoria the other day, every second dispay mentions climate change, it gave me the creeps actually.They are winning.
This story parallels the Percy Schmeisser story.
The guy that stole contracted canola from Cargill and planted it in his field. When caught he claimed it must have blown out of a truck going by his field. The environmentalists were elated and jumped to his aid. Despite being proven guilty in court of theft,he is still revered by the left. He travels to conferences all over the world spewing the messsage they want to hear about how those horrible greedy corporations are destroying farmers.
bob:
Once you get rid of your defeatist attitude, you'll have much more hope for the future.
Push back twice as hard. Tell everybody you know that the hockey stick and the Fort Chip cancer report are both proven frauds that enviromental activists use to make a living.
Science and truth are winning. OK?
Actually they are not winning.
I have been chatting with school age kids...
For the most part they regard fruit-fly guy as a fraud----especially if their parents are under the thrall of Obama/Kyoto/etc.
Kids are smart and surprisingly have effective BS detectors.
I was elated when the kid of the local environut knew about the 1942 St Roch and 1905 Amundsden Goa voyages.
Why is he allowed to keep his medicial licence....that is a type of malpractice..liar...liar pants on fire is allowed to practice in Nova Scotia.... does't say much for self regulating doctors commune....
This so-called "doctor" is in point of fact a saboteur. Not only is he attempting to sabotage a major industry that provides gainful employment to thousands of Albertans, he is sabotaging the morale of the very community he allegedly serves.
The oilsands industry should sue him for libel. He has made false statements that disparage their industry and their product. Sue the dirty Commie for every cent he owns. Times ten.
Remember the punishment for sabotage in wartime? We need to reinstate that now. Make no mistake about it, these so-called environmentalists are at war with our economic system.
Defeatist attitude or not, set you free, the nutters have one.
On the health issue, a good chunk of the population believes what they want to believe. Irrespective of science, or truth.
On the environment, Prentice's Green Shift has been designed, and is ready to go. The conservatives are launching a major transfer of wealth to central Canada.
One, to buy Frenchie's vote, and two, to bail out Ontario from structural deficits.
The 'ol 'vote rich' 905 etc. isn't going to have to do without anytime soon.
It's what Canada is.
Earnest, was Percy Schmeiser really, really convicted of theft, or was it a lawsuit by Monsanto for patent infringement?
Isn't his lawsuit for crop contamination still pending?
Did not Monsanto settle out of small claims court on the $660 bill for destruction of cross-pollinated canola in his field?
I might be confused about the issue and am interested in any facts you could provide.
Earnest, was Percy Schmeiser really, really convicted of theft, or was it a lawsuit by Monsanto for patent infringement?
Isn't his lawsuit for crop contamination still pending?
Did not Monsanto settle out of small claims court on the $660 bill for destruction of cross-pollinated canola in his field?
I might be confused about the issue and am interested in any facts you could provide.
hard:
The nutters have one? What? Defeatist attitude?
If I understand correctly, I agree. That's why they have to make stuff up, exploit and manipulate what Darwin said. Ultimately, everything on the march to utopia is politicized.
I'd rather use a pure scientific approach when searching for the ultimate truths. Ruling elites, be damned. Your solutions are only a blueprint for human misery.
What an SOB.
If this so-called physician really cared about cancer patients, he wouldn't be so cavalier about facts.
I hope the book they throw at him weighs a ton.
A lot of lefty loons will still be quoting from his phony study for years to come and most people they preach won't know the difference.
The hockey stick theory was disproved years ago and it's still being used by the enviro fascists. That's simply they way they operate - keep telling lies until you win.
If a lie is big enough and you keep telling it, it will be believed. This quack did a lot of damage.
Ed:
That's why it's up to people like you to speak the truth.
Stop the lies by telling the truth about these liars.
Set you Free
That exactly what I do. Every chance I get.
Aaron : I stand corrected. You are right. I have fired my press secretary and my whole research dept. which is why the unemployment rate has gone up.
However, because I know this guy my last point is
true.
His findings were reported in the National Geographic hit piece a while back:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text/7
I've walked out of restaurants because I didn't like the looks of the servers or the cooks; I wouldn't let this man give me a physical examination on that basis alone, and least of all anything whatever to do with colons or prostates.
Like the great Maurice looks like a lizard, and Algore looks like a rat, scumbags seem to take on the looks of an animal they act like ever noticed, but then Suzookie looks like his northbound dogs south end so I am having a hard time placing this stupid doctor.
allan:
Will you join me in emailing the National Post article to the editors of National Geograhic?
In the interests of science, of course.
O'Connor, of course, was quoted extensively in Marsden's masterpiece "Stupid to the last drop: how Alberta is bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada" which is the bible for all the Eco-Loons out there from the CBC to the Liberal party of Canada.
See page 185 here for a good laugh:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Bd7QLeN2zJ4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q=&f=false
I guess that whole chapter can be ripped from that tome to join all the others where fallacies have been uncovered.
What a dick.
They really should pull his licence in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Their Colleges must be completely spineless - advocacy is one thing - we don't get to publicly lie about cancer stats and then refuse to share the info. I guess lying in the guise of aboriginal advocacy must be OK though.
What a dick.
They really should pull his licence in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Their Colleges must be completely spineless - advocacy is one thing - we don't get to publicly lie about cancer stats and then refuse to share the info. I guess lying in the guise of aboriginal advocacy must be OK though.