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usual suspect wrote:
> wrote:
> >>>>>That's why Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine was
> >>>>>formed
> >>>>
> >>>>No, it wasn't. PCRM was formed as an outgrowth of animal rights groups,
> >>>>not medical groups. Physicians make up less than five-percent of PCRM's
> >>>>membership.

> >
> >>>You ignorant git!!
> >>
> >>*You* ignorant git!!
> >>
> >>
> >>>PCRM was originally formed by
> >>
> >>Animal rights activists.

> >
> > Who call themselves PHYSICIANS?

>
> Yes. Over 95% of their membership are *NOT* physicians:
>
http://www.amprogress.org/News/News.cfm?ID=360&c=63
>
> Why do you gullibly go by the name of the organization rather than what
> it really is? It is NOT a medical organization. It's primarily a group
> of animal rights activists who don't hold medical degrees or work in the
> medical profession. Nitwit.
>
> > Dr. Neal Barnard is what exactly?

>
> An animal rights activist who heads an animal rights group.
>
> >> As can be seen on PCRM's own Web site, despite its name, fewer
> >> than 5 per cent of PCRM's members have medical degrees. The
> >> group has a long history of opposing important research prograns
> >> funded by respected health charities such as the American Heart
> >> Association, the March of Dimes, St. Jude Children's Hospital,
> >> the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the American
> >> Cancer Society.
> >>
> >> PCRM opposes any use of laboratory animals in biomedical
> >> research, regardless of the benefit. It was created in 1984 to
> >> provide a false patina of scientific credibility to the extreme
> >> animal rights agenda espoused by PETA and other groups. Its
> >> involvement in animal rights activism remains strong. PCRM's
> >> president, Neal Barnard, is also president of thr Foundation to
> >> Support Animal Protection, which is housed in PETA's
> >> headquarters in Norfolk. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk is the
> >> foundation's vice president.
> >>
> >> According to IRS records, in 2000, the sole grant awarded by the
> >> foundation was to PCRM, in the amount of $432,524, nearly a
> >> fifth of PCRM's budget.
> >> http://www.amprogress.org/News/News.cfm?ID=149&c=65
> >>
> >>
> >> Despite its name, only about 5% of PCRM's membership are
> >> physicians. Recently PCRM has been spending much of its $2.9
> >> million dollar annual budget attempting to re-invent itself as
> >> a health/consumer watchdog group and draw media attention away
> >> from its adherence to the animal rights agenda.
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, PCRM has continued to promote that agenda in its
> >> joint campaign with PETA against America's leading health
> >> charities that fund animal based biomedical research. We are
> >> not only talking about the March of Dimes, but also the American
> >> Heart Association , the American Cancer Society, St. Jude
> >> Children's Research Hospital, American Foundation for AIDS
> >> Research, The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, The
> >> American Red Cross and, yes, even Boys Town. Seventy charities
> >> in all are currently on PCRM/PETA's "don't donate" list. These
> >> are organizations that through their grants and contributions to
> >> biomedical research are responsible for hundreds of specific
> >> achievements in medical progress. These achievements range from
> >> development of the polio vaccine to the latest in genetic
> >> discoveries including identifying the genetic basis for
> >> diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and many types of cancer.
> >> http://www.amprogress.org/News/News.cfm?ID=360&c=63
> >>
> >>See also: http://www.physicianscam.com/article_detail.cfm
> >>
> >>
> >>>MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
> >>
> >>They're not medical professionals. They're animal rights activists.




Go to http://www.nealbarnard.org and learn something you ...useless
....clit.



PCRM was ORIGINALLY founded by MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS!