Atkins - Obesity dealio is PETA disinfo/agitprop

[Loonman]

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-10-2004/0002106789&EDATE=

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The late Dr. Robert Atkins is being
smeared for his alleged obesity at the time of his death, by a phony doctors
organization that has been exposed as a front group for People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) and has been censured by the American Medical
Association (AMA). The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
has taken in over $1 million from PETA and the animal rights movement. PCRM
and PETA also share office space, board members, and staff.
The AMA has formally censured PCRM in the past, calling its
recommendations "irresponsible" and "potentially dangerous to the health and
welfare of Americans." The AMA has also called PCRM a "fringe organization"
that uses "unethical tactics" and is "interested in perverting medical


http://www.consumerfreedom.com/

[Snow]

1. Thank you; very interesting

another classic example of 'we're right, so any means is acceptable'

[villager]

2. taken from PR newswire?

hmmm... so whose PR is the counter-spin?

[Loonman]

3. More info

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/headline_detail.cfm?HEADLINE_ID=2357

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040210/dctuv002_1.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Alleged obesity?

That in itself is a laugh a minute. How can someone be allegedly obese?

[Westegg]

6. I'm "allegedly" obese...

My wife alleges it. I insist the facts say otherwise. Who you gonna believe, honey? Me? Or your lying eyes...

[supernova]

7. Dr. Atkins' weight was

probably due to his cardiomyopathy. He was retaining a lot of fluid.

[supernova]

5. Thank you Loonman

What a bunch of jerks to smear a man after his death just to score points! :thumbsdown:

Not only that the MD in Nebraska obtained Dr Atkins death report unethically. He was not the physician of record, and had not right to that report in the first place. :grr:

[Loonman]

8. Ironically, I don't even like the diet

I like my carbos, thank you.

(rapid metabolism)

[supernova]

9. To each his own

I wish I had a rapid metabolism, but I don't. So I must deal with that.