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oe Modern Medicine & its Military Links ae ding very nasty things, G: Is that whv there hac heen a mave- Continued from page 72 are doing very nasty things. G: Is that why there has been a move- beauty and health. ment underway to control the amount of L: I have never seen a vehicle of social money people can get in lawsuits? change that works as fast and effectively as L: Yes, oh, yes. the toxic tort arena. Never. And the toxic G: It isn't just to protect the insurance chemical lawsuits have done more for companies. humanity than anything else. And the big- L: No. Not at all. Basically, it's to ger the settlement, the better it is. allow people to maintain the status quo. And let me tell you this: we are wearing G: Do you want to say anything about safety belts not because someone published the way you treat people whose immune in The New England Journal of Medicine, systems are damaged? but because somebody kicked somebody's tail in a lawsuit. That's the only way to get (Time ran out here, I was handed a pub- people to turn around: you have to hit ‘em _ lished article to answer this question: Alan where they live, you have to cost them S. Levin, M.D., and Vera S. Byers, M.D., money. So these lawsuits are wonderful Ph.D., "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: A things, and the more money that is generat- Practicing Clinician's Point of View, ed from them, the better it is for humanity. Clinical and Immunologic Research G: It costs the industry money, or who- Findings", in Toxicology and Industrial ever is being sued, but on the other hand, as Health, vol. 8, no. 4, 1992, pp 95-109. It you said before, it sounds like the benefit is will be summarised in a forthcoming issue that it makes people aware. of Blazing Tattles.) eo L: Right. Right. It makes them aware of what is going on. These lawsuits are a . . MCAT e tre themm For subscription details to Blazing reform you would really cause a lot of Tattles, please refer to the problems, because then there would be advertisement below. very little way you could get at people who =. NEXUS ¢73 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1994