No amount of posturing and claim of infallibility as a medical doctor can cover-up for the irreversible technical and ethical lapses committed by Dr. Alan Dionisio and his team in their controversial Camocaan study.
This was the main gist of PBGEA spokesman Anthony Sasin's repartee to Dr. Romeo F. Quijano, president of the Pesticide Action Network Philippines whose allegations of Camocaan villagers being "sick and dying due to aerial spraying" were all found to be anecdotal and unfounded.
"Being a medical doctor does not license him to be infallible," said Sasin as he expressed dismay at Quijano's run-around of the issues raised against him as the principal instigator of the DOH study of Camocaan, a fact he repeatedly denied and which Dr. Alan Dionisio and Dr. Annabelle Yumang announced during the July 3 Public Inquiry hosted by the municipal government of Hagonoy.
"Who will believe them?"asked Sasin appalled at the repeated denials of a fact that they themselves wrote in unequivocal terms that said study was made in response to Quijano's allegation that Camocaan is a poisoned village.
Sasin said that Quijano's challenge for a new study is just a rehash of the very same challenge he posed to the group. "Why make a big fuss out of something that is almost a non-issue?" he asked saying that all it takes is for them and the rest of the doctors who subscribe to their findings to just visit Camocaan, talk to the residents, the mayor, the barangay health workers, the municipal health officer, the tribal chieftains and anyone of those they claimed to be adversely affected by aerial spraying.
"Camocaan is a typical Filipino village that is peaceful and where the villagers are hospitable and friendly and they welcome everyone with honest intentions," said Sasin.
Sasin said that they can also talk to Mr. Lolong Pelletero, an NGO worker in Digos City and Mr. Ramil Murillo, both of whom were brought to New Zealand by Quijano sometime in 2006 and paraded before delegates of a pesticide-elimination convention as "survivors of a poisoned village."
"I am not a doctor and one does not need to be a doctor to appreciate the actual situation in Camocaan and separate facts from lies," said Sasin who also wish that the good toxicologist marry his own thoughts. "He said he is a well-trained toxicologist and has the people's welfare at heart, then why recommend ground spraying? Sasin asked.
The PBGEA spokesman told media that it will take just 30 liters of low-dose fungicide to cover a hectare while it will take 60 or more liters in ground spraying. "So where is the logic in his proposition as a toxicologist? That the more chemicals we spray, the safer?" he asked.
"That calls for a second opinion, right?" Sasin concluded
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Yes, who will believe these fake researchers? They kill people who are very alive. Go to Camocaan and you will see, although poor but healthy people, live animals and growing plants. These researchers must have done their survey under the shade of the mango tree and invented their findings and collected their fat fees! Shame on you! You're suppose to be educated people and yet you are fooling a lot of people for a living. Wala kayong pinagkaiba ke Judas!
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