Comments on: FUD From Dr Peel http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/03/24/fud-from-dr-peel/ My life and thoughts, often about FOSS in medicine Mon, 12 May 2008 21:44:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: ftrotter http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/03/24/fud-from-dr-peel/#comment-791 ftrotter Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:22:19 +0000 http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/03/24/fud-from-dr-peel/#comment-791 I am not sure that Dr. Peel actually meant to play "the race card". I think her point is that there is an important informed consent missing, which is at the heart of the Tuskegee Experiments. However, I think my point (and apparently yours) is that it really is pretty difficult to discuss Tuskegee without also trying to parse out difficult race based issues. In this respect it is just as fruitless as discussing the holocaust without also discussing the racial implications of the holocaust. I am not sure that Dr. Peel actually meant to play “the race card”. I think her point is that there is an important informed consent missing, which is at the heart of the Tuskegee Experiments. However, I think my point (and apparently yours) is that it really is pretty difficult to discuss Tuskegee without also trying to parse out difficult race based issues. In this respect it is just as fruitless as discussing the holocaust without also discussing the racial implications of the holocaust.

]]> By: Marian http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/03/24/fud-from-dr-peel/#comment-786 Marian Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:28:34 +0000 http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/03/24/fud-from-dr-peel/#comment-786 Fred, You know my views on Deborah Peel. I just have to say that she has really crossed the line here. Pulling the race card? This is NOTHING like Tuskegee. It is a fact that diseases affect different races differently. We cannot change this at this point in time. Research on Type II diabetes will help those more commonly affected MORE than others. She would deny them this benefit? Because of misplaced concerns over privacy? This is truly a distorted view and she needs to take a few deep breaths, get over herself, and try to see the bigger picture. Marian Fred,

You know my views on Deborah Peel. I just have to say that she has really crossed the line here. Pulling the race card? This is NOTHING like Tuskegee. It is a fact that diseases affect different races differently. We cannot change this at this point in time. Research on Type II diabetes will help those more commonly affected MORE than others. She would deny them this benefit? Because of misplaced concerns over privacy? This is truly a distorted view and she needs to take a few deep breaths, get over herself, and try to see the bigger picture.

Marian

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