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The Persecu Le Ribault Continued from page 24 "One point of great weight," he says, Editor's Note: "seems to have heen forontten in this whale =OS5 can he ordered fram the fallawina Editor's Note: Continued from page 24 "One point of great weight," he says, "seems to have been forgotten in this whole which the publicly concerned scientist affair. It is not the medical authorities who finds himself, like Ibsen's character in An _ should be deciding the fate of sick people. Enemy of the People, beyond the pale of _ It is for the sick themselves and only the the orthodox community, branded as a_ sick to make such decisions." fraud and a charlatan and hounded by the Le Ribault now feels he has done all he furies of profit and power. is personally able to do with OS5. However we read the tale, we might "T have agents in many countries and recognise it as a once apocryphal story about 100 doctors and practitioners now which is quickly becoming an everyday using OSS. I receive calls from new doc- reality. tors every day; there is a lot of interest in The scientist, medical scientist or doctor, France, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland and forced to work beyond the orthodoxy and Portugal... I have the task of improving the subjected to powerful manipulation, molecule; it is doctors that should be treat- ridicule, sabotage and/or criminalisation, is ing people. The production of OSS is in becoming an increasingly common figure _ France, it is legal, it is non-toxic and it is to in contemporary drama as well as in real high standards." life. Le Ribault is still angry and perturbed Although the ethnic or national details of _ that the French government did not take the these histories of scientific dissent, whether discovery from him and Norbert Duffaut, their subject be BSE, vitamin B6, OS5 (the _ then take over its production and introduce new name for G5), cold fusion, it to the world as an accepted international homoeopathy or everlasting light-bulbs, _ medicine. differ slightly, they are all stories of the "It is not the government who are in con- post-modern era. trol of the country," he says, "but the multi- Le Ribault sees the patient's "right to _ national corporations and the financial peo- choose" as being the salient right in the dis- _ ple; my struggle is evidence of that." oo pute between himself and the French State. Continued next issue ... OS5 can be ordered from the following address in Ireland, where Loic Le Ribault has set up a laboratory to pro- duce organic silica: Loic Le Ribault, c/- Ross Post Office, Castlebar, County Mayo, The Republic of Ireland. About the Author: Martin J. Walker is a researcher and writer as well as an activist. He has written a number of books about critical social issues including Dirty Medicine (1993; reviewed in NEXUS 2/10) and Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and the Manufacture of Mental Iliness (2003; reviewed in 11/06). The full text of his article on Dr Loic Le Ribault can be found at http://www.communicationa- gents.com/emma_holister/2004/1 1/24/ loic_le_ribaults_resistance.htm. It was originally published as a booklet, "Loic Le Ribault's Resistance: The creation of a treatment for arthritis and the persecu- tion of its author, France's foremost forensic scientist" (Slingshot Publications, London, 1998, ISBN 0- 9519646-1-5). 74 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com