Name: Pascal Fervor
E-Mail: Pascal@loop.com
Subject: Geoff's Q&A: Vaccines that Kill Children?
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Maybe it's just a coincidence that I've just started my website, but I certainly hope it proves fruitful to Mr. Belkin and Geoff the connection I am about to make. There's a segment in this interview the goes as follows:

A: [groups] trying to get the word out about vaccince choice and the risks... because the doctors are not telling you about it at all. They tell you it's perfectly safe -- a magic bullet. Then they disown you if you get an adverse reaction or your kid dies or something....

Q: Are the doctors afraid of malpractice suits?

A: They are in denial. It's almost like a huge psychological brainwashing. They think that they are preventing disease...that they are banishing disease and that they can't do anything wrong. Then they refuse to admit it. This is very standard. [Emphasis added by Pascal.]

First of all it is written by two doctors, one who I'm certain still has connections with the CDCP.

Secondly, they suggest that casuistry is not just specious reasoning -- oh no, that's a bad rap. (Which, to some extent is true). It's the weighing of consequences and what ones conscience ought to tell them about about ones actions.

Thirdly, and this is the stinker that creeps in: they appear to recommend ever so subtly that it's okay if some die if in the big picture many more survive. While this may be often true, it is not true if some die due to callousness -- and that is precisely what happens when a colossus like the CDCP/FDA/Medical Establishment decides one policy fits all.

What I believe has essentially happened is that all these doctors have relieved their guilty consciences over tragedies like those that happen to Mr. Belkin's daughter by applying casuistic logic. It's precisely as Blaise Pascal had parodied back in the 1650s when he single-handedly undermined the little assuaging consciences cash-cow the Jesuits had apparently established for themselves during their counter reformation battles.

Get one of your speed reading staffers to review this book by Toulmin and Jonsen and get a gander for yourselves. They laid out back in 1988 how to let the Drug companies hoodwink a great number of physicians to go along in violation of their Hippocratic Oath under the guise of that old stalwart "the common good."

And while you're at it, check out the glossary at my website wherein I am building the modern connection between casuistry and sophistry in honor of the philosopher Pascal.

In Truth is Liberty.

Reference: Some thoughts on modern casuistry - Pascal Fervor
Added on Date: 00:34:03 12/04/2000