Actually a quick search of YOU .. and 'remicade' .. brings up .. ?

http://tinyurl.com/j343x

Jeez .. that is a LOT .. of posts ..

You .. like .. remicade .. do .. ya .. ?

Sort of like your .. pal .. NinaW ..

Eh ..

I wonder if THIS .. post refers to .. you .. ?

WARNING: Industry is Blogging These NewsGroups to Maintain Their
Monopolies

To : All participants and readers of sci.med, misc.health.alternative,
uk.people.health, talk.politics.medicine

Please be aware that many comments and responses posted to this forum
are not those of casual posters interested in an honest  exchange.  A
number of individuals with ties to industry are engaging an effort to
shape public sentiment about the risks of mainstream  medicine while
denigrating the benefits and validity of natural medicine.  I refer to
these individuals broadly as "Pharma Bloggers."(*)  Pharma Bloggers on
usenet don't promote a specific company or product, as might be the
case with standard "blogging" on a weblog.  Most of these people are
likely to have an association with a PR campaign whose "blogging"
efforts are underwritten anonymously by the media and marketing groups
of industry. They are not difficult to identify due to specific
patterns of behaviour in posting.

Here are a few points to remember while participating in usenet
newsgroups:

1. Pharma Bloggers on usenet use intimidation, mockery, and insults to
silence those who express belief or interest in natural medicine.

2. Pharma Bloggers on usenet attack those who question the
effectiveness of mainstream medicine and defend disease-management
"healthcare" as the only viable form of medicine.

3. Pharma Bloggers on usenet post the majority of their responses
simply to bury the comments of others; they also strive obsessively  to

have the last word.

4. Pharma Bloggers on usenet are much faster at posting than casual
participants; they almost always respond first to a new thread,
question, or observation.

5. Pharma Bloggers on usenet use multiple "bloggers" in a swap-&-relay
fashion to create an aura of the "consensus view" in an effort  to
isolate posters who question the value of mainstream medicine.  You
will see this tactic used more often than any other.

6. Pharma Bloggers on usenet refute numerous quality studies published
in major medical journals showing the benefits of natural medicine
applied in naturopathic healthcare, including nutrient supplementation,

exercise, stress reduction, biofeedback, accupuncture, and other
approaches.  You can find the science supporting a variety of natural
medicine approaches at http://www.newstarget.com.

7. Pharma Bloggers on usenet frequently refer readers to
"quack-busting" websites designed to denigrate natural medicine
approaches and their proponents.  Under the guise of "consumer
protection," the extreme bias of these promoters belies their true
motives and reveals their ties to industry.

8. Pharma Bloggers on usenet extol the virtues of various mainstream
medical treatments, citing "evidence based medicine" and the FDA
approval process.  They ignore iatrogenic studies showing the dangerous

effects of such treatment (ie., more than 100,000 deaths annually), as
well as a 20% recall for all previously approved drugs, and hundreds of

studies showing a disease relationship to use of pharmaceutical drugs
and other toxic exposures.

9. Pharma Bloggers on usenet call for an ADE (Adverse Event) reporting
system for dietary supplements, despite the fact that ADE reporting for

pharmaceutical drugs, according to FDA, is not more than 20% effective.

They cite Poison Control data to support the view that dietary
supplements are unsafe, yet ignore the fact that the data show fewer
potential adverse reactions from the entire spectrum of dietary
supplements as compared to just ONE popular class of pharmaceutical
drugs, analgesics.

10. Pharma Bloggers on usenet demand stringent regulatory control over
supplements, while ignoring data showing thousands of deaths resulting
from defective regulation of the drug industry.  The real and glaring
failures on the part of FDA to protect the public, and the failure of
Big Pharma to perform long-term safety studies on pharmaceutical drugs
before going to market, are conveniently ignored by these industry
media jockeys.

Comment:  The call for an ineffective ADE reporting system, additional
regulatory oversight, and a classification system that treats nutrients

the same as drugs, is designed to expose dietary supplements to the
market-busting tactics of the drug industry and limit consumer choices
before adoption of natural medicine grows further.  The pharmaceutical
companies are well aware that more than one-third of all Americans are
relying on some form of alternative medicine in an effort to improve
their individual healthcare, and that cuts directly into their profits.

Tip: If you find yourself engaging a poster whose defense of mainstream

medicine is unusually dramatic in tone, or inexplicably vicious  toward

others, and if that response is an attempt to denigrate natural
medicine, you can be sure you have stumbled upon a "Pharma  Blogger."
Unfortunately, there are more of these individuals posting to usenet on

a daily basis than virtually anyone else, which is why I  am posting
this alert.  If you find it odd that so few people on health-related
usenet newsgroups are expressing an interest in natural  medicine, it
isn't because they aren't there, it's because they have been
intimidated into silence.  The Pharma Bloggers have over-run  the
various newsgroups with their industrial brand of dogma, mockery, and
ridicule.  Many casual posters are simply frightened away.   That's a
primary goal of these industry media jockeys, and they are very good at

it.

(*) Pharma Blogger: An individual who uses the Internet and Usenet
newsgroups to: 1) promote and defend maintstream medicine  while
denigrating natural medicine approaches; 2) attack others who express a

preference for natural medicine, or who question the  value of
mainstream healthcare and disease management; and 3) cite a variety of
"junk medical science" funded by industry for the  purpose of
establishing markets for marginally effective, and often dangerous,
medical products and devices.

Who loves ya.
Tom

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Thanks Diane.  Although I'm new here I am not new to other groups, and
can generally figure out who's who pretty quickly.  I'm still hopeful
someone can come up with a specialist name.

good point, chief!  Paul, some of the RDs listed on the ACR wevsite also list
their particular interests.  You might be able to locate one with a
sarcoidosis interest that way.  If none of the specify that disease, at least
you can start calling all the offices and asking the staff.  

Thanks so much Mr. Holland for your time and effort. We'll start
checking out some of the names and facilities you suggest.  /Paul