He may very well be right too! I have been a patient of Dr. Shoemaker for 4
years and have been helped tremendously after being sick for over 35 years.
I predict he will "prove it" as you ask. Fact is, he already has.
Publications will follow.
On 1/25/05, Greg Weatherman wrote:
> Erica,
>
> Reading comprehension is a skill they try to teach in public schools
> across America so we won't become a illiterate society fooled by half
> truths.
>
> No MD can cure all people of all problems. His website states this
> basic truth. I have sent people to him and they were happy with the
> results.
>
> I don't know about any FDA letters.
>
> He must understand ACTOS and DIABETES since he is an MD and he is
> DIABETIC (like many people in America). Ten years ago MDs were
> considered quacks for saying DDT or "agent orange" could be one of the
> causes for diabetes - not today. He has focused on MSH levels for a good
> reason.
>
> Voodoo medicine:
>
> CSM was shown to allow normally lethal doses of fumonisin B to be
> andministered to rats with no effect. CSM was also tried with horses
> (the equine industy has big money and connections). CSM is in the
> EPA "medical" handbook for the removal of neurotoxins such as
> pesticides. Dr. Shoemaker's research partners are Dr. Ken Hudnell (EPA
> neurotoxicologist) and Dennis House (retired EPA statistician).
>
> Isolation of Neurotoxins:
>
> A person can be exposed to organophosphate pesticides and get diagnosed
> in the emergency room for exposure and treated. Medical science has
> never isolated the pesticide from patients at the levels that affect the
> nervous system. Ask Dr. Richard Lipsey (who has litigated these cases
> for decades) if you need to isolate the toxin to prove the toxin caused
> harm when you have environmental exposure noted. Ask him what his job
> duties at the University of Florida required with physicians in Florida
> in the early to mid 1970's.
>
> Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
>
> Many times, consutlants test for mold in complaint environments. They
> ignore bacteria. A common bacteria in chronic water damage is
> Streptomyces. It is an Actinomycete bacteria that grows well at room
> temperature starting at a water activity level of roughly 0.84 and
> higher. It can digest cellulose and chitin (mold is composed of
> chitin). More than one species of Streptomyces can produce valinomyocin
> (an exotoxin) which can inhibit the ATP process in cells. ATP is the
> essense of energy in all living life from human cells to plant to germs.
> CFS is not that far fetched. The most common chemical or microbial VOC
> isolated in moldy structures is geosmin which comes exclusively from
> Streptomyces.
>
> It is the reason dirt smells like dirt.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg Weatherman
> aerobioLogical Solutions Inc.
> Arlington VA 22202
>
> gw@aerobiological.com
>
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>> Dear Mr. Greg Weatherman, I have been following Shoemaker for quit
>> some time now and know several people he's treated. The bottom line is
>> that this doctor is dangerous. Don't believe me? He just recently
>> received a warning letter from the FDA about his prescribing the
>> veterinary drug Staphage Lysate to human beings. Need further
>> evidence? He treats Lymes Disease with Actos, a diabetic medication
>> and does not understand how it works. That's because, in all
>> likelyhood, it is voodoo medicine. To make matters worse, the
>> cholesterol medication CSM that binds bilesalts to stools is treated
>> for a neurotoxin that he's NEVER isolated, for mold related disorders
>> he can't proove. The reason Dr. Shoemaker is dangerous is because he
>> prescribes medication based soley on theory and not scientific fact.
>> He is a mad quack. This is a physican who believes that because he
>> treated a woman with CSM and her headaches and lethargy went away that
>> it MUST BE related to a toxin; which is all theory and quackery, which
>> is something he can't proove. In all likelyhood, the reason the first
>> woman's symptoms went away after he treated her with CSM is because
>> she was no longer DEHYDRATED from diarrhea and thus felt better. But
>> this is going to seem too simple to you. You're going to scoff at
>> this. Fine. Dr. Shoemaker needs to proove it. The bottom line is, he
>> can't. And in all patients, placebo-affect is known to transcend
>> thirty percent of patients who think and want to feel better and most
>> importantly, HEAR it from a doctor. He may very well have isolated a
>> Pfisteria outbreak in Pockomoke. Good for him. But the idea that he
>> has a thriving business now based upon the idea that most CFS is
>> caused by neurtoxins is ridiculous. There is no proof. He treats
>> patients as if they were lab animals at his beck and call, under the
>> guise that he is doing them a favor. The tone in your text, suggesting
>> that the cockroaches will run for cover makes me think that you are a
>> fan of his; that's fine if you wish, but remember something, he may
>> very well be wrong.