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9/11 — A Tragic Story of
Neglected Ethics
The Unrecognized Oxygen-9/11 Connection
Majid Ali,
M.D.
I wrote
September Eleven, 2005 (2002) as a book of
predictions penned in a fictionalized past tense. I
had five objectives. First, to state what I saw as
entirely predictable: the terror of 9/11 will turn
into toxicity, and toxicity of the inferno will turn
into terror. The toxicity and terror will fan each
other’s fires to sicken an enormous number of
people. Second, the people made ill by the 9/11
events will be monitored with registries—some of
them literally to their deaths. Third, New York
doctors will treat illnesses caused by chemical
toxins with yet more chemicals—drugs that will offer
temporary benefits but will not address the
underlying problems. Fourth, the lessons concerning
the cumulative effects of terror and toxicity will
not be learned. Fifth, the core oxygen-9/11
connection will go unrecognized. Regrettably, all my
predictions came to pass. I survey the records of
the last ten years to document that. As the first of the two Twin
Towers began to collapse, I saw in a flash that it
was the beginning of a very long story—the same
story I had seen in a flash ten years earlier in the
first images of terror and toxicity of burning oil
fields in the Gulf War.
As the first of
the two Twin Towers began to collapse, I saw in a
flash that it was the beginning of a very long
story—the same story I had seen in a flash ten years
earlier in the first images of terror and toxicity
of burning oil fields in the Gulf War.
In 2002, I missed my mark in two
crucial areas. First, I failed to foresee that the
story of 9/11 will be a story of "unethics." City
officials, EPA administrators, doctors, medical
examiners, lawyers, and the news media will display
a most regrettable disregard of ethics. I define
ethics not only as the study of the consequences of
one’s action on others but also of the consequences
of one’s inaction when action is needed. Second, I
did not recognize that the victims of the terror and
toxicity of 9/11 would be made sicker by officials,
doctors, lawyers, and the news media—not by acts of
omission but by acts of commission. I could not
imagine that all these professionals would continue
to deliberately and persistently hide the truth
about the 9/11 dust toxicity. And that the EPA will
knowingly distort the data. And that the New York
City Medical Examiner, who had a great opportunity
to inform the public of the real issues—the
essential uncertainties of sickness and death
resulting from unprecedented toxicity—will
deliberately defy the established standards of
autopsy to appease politicians and the city
officials. I feared that even the cataclysmic events
of 9/11 may not compel doctors to think beyond the
prevailing one-cause-one-disease-one-drug model of
thinking. I did not recognize that the city doctors
would refuse to consider the basic science of
detoxification pathways of the liver, which they
learned in medical schools, only to protect their
turf. And that they would set up 9/11 registries,
freely dole out drugs, but literally watch people
get sicker and sicker. I completely failed to see
that all such individuals will be purposely
unethical only to serve financial, compensation, and
litigation concerns.
I illustrate these points in two
related articles on this site:
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The Untold
Story of 9/11 Toxicity, Politicians, and the City’s
Medical Examiner
*
9/11 Dust, Air
Hunger, and City’s Lung Specialist
I did not predict a higher
incidence of cancer among 9/11 rescue workers since
cancer development usually is a delayed consequence
of toxicity. Now I predict a higher incidence of
certain cancers, specifically of the bone, among
rescue workers during the next ten years.
Navy
News on Author's Predictions
Readers may be puzzled about the
certitude with which I wrote September Eleven,
2005. To provide a framework of reference, Below
is text from Navy News of September 13, 1995:
"Long before the first
veterans returned from the Persian Gulf Dr.
Majid Ali, associate professor of pathology
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at
Columbia University in New York, and
Director of the Department of Pathology,
Immunology and Laboratories at Holy Name
Hospital in Teaneck, NJ, predicted five
outcomes.
* That a large number of
servicemen and women in the Persian Gulf
region would return with a variety of
chronic environmental, immune and stress
related problems;
* That disabling fatigue
would be a dominant clinical feature while
other symptoms would include recurrent
infection, food allergy reactions, abdominal
problems, disorders of mood and memory, and
skin rashes, among others;
* That sick veterans
would initially be dismissed as malingerers
and labeled with various psychiatric
diagnoses and prescribed large doses of mind
numbing drugs;
* That the chronic health
disorders of these veterans would worsen
with multiple drug therapies; and
* That when everything
else failed, these veterans would be
prescribed long term broad spectrum
antibiotic therapy that would play further
havoc with their bowel systems.
Five years later these
predictions are now observable facts.
Headlines debate the cause and fate of those
men and women who left healthy and returned
home sick—nearly 75,000 at last count."
In the initial images of the Twin
Tower inferno, I saw how the story of the victims of
the terror and toxicity would unfold. Initially, New
York City doctors will treat them with deep
compassion, and diligence. The City officials will
be loud in their support for them as well. Then they
will call upon stress management experts from other
cities. They will not bother to seek advice from
nutritionists and environmental doctors. Medical
journals will warn their readers not to
unnecessarily medicalize the complaints of people
sickened by 9/11 events. Antianxiety pills and
antidepressants will be liberally prescribed. The
drugs will help but little. More journal reports
will follow claiming that there is little evidence
of chemical or immune injury in the syndrome. Next,
some people will pronounce that the syndrome is
caused by microbes and administer potent—and
toxic—antibiotics in large amounts. There would be
limited benefits in some cases but serious long-term
consequences in most others.
What might a twenty-year survey
of the global consequences of 9/11 show in 2021? I
cannot resist the temptation of making some
predictions and devote a chapter to this subject.
In 2002, in September Eleven,
I dedicated one chapter to an explanation of the
scientific basis of 9/11-related chronic illnesses,
and another to my guidelines for preventing those
illnesses. I had no illusion that the practitioners
of drug medicine in New York would consider
integrated nutritional and detox therapies to meet
the special needs of 9/11 victims—only a hope that
the scale of destruction and suffering would compel
many doctors to consider at least a limited use of
nondrug remedies. I was not surprised when that did
not happen with passing months, then years. In 2011,
I still do not believe that will happen. However,
most people who continue to suffer ten years later
now clearly recognize the need for nutritional and
detox therapies. For them, I include my guidelines
in an updated form.
Did 9/11 change the basic
thinking model of the city doctors? Did it raise
their consciousness about environmental toxicities?
Did it compel them to study increased nutritional
needs of people sickened by the toxic blend of
terror and toxicity? Did they go back to their
textbooks to relearn what they were taught in their
first courses in medical schools about how
oxygen-driven enzyme systems metabolize food
substances to generate clean energy? Did they
relearn how environmental toxins can impede or block
these energy systems? Sadly, none of that happened.
Did they ever question that tisssue injury and
suffering caused by chemicals cannot be reversed
with more chemicals? Did they recognize that injured
tissues heal with nutrients, and not with drugs?
Lamentably, for the city doctors, the toxicity of
9/11 never happened. In their self-righteous denial
of the special nutritional needs of 9/11 victims,
they continued to merrily prescribe
symptom-suppressing drugs for all clinical problems
triggered or worsened by 9/11 terror and toxicity.
This book addresses these questions.
Related
Reports
*
Environmental Health
*
9/11 — A Tragic Story of
Neglected Ethics
* The Untold
Story of 9/11 Toxicity, Politicians, and the City’s
Medical Examiner
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9/11 Dust, Air
Hunger, and City’s Lung Specialist
*
9/11 Toxicity and
Lapdog Journalists of New York Magazine
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9/11 —
Lapdog Joes of The New York Times
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9/11
— Lesson Unlearned and Lapdog Joes of The New
England Journal of Medicine
*
Do We Need Special
Autopsy Standards for Suspected 9/11-Related Deaths?
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9/11 - We Should Have Known
- Circa September 12, 2012
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