Brown to Canadian Association of Journalists Wendy McLellan about journalists? contribution to misconceptions and problematic attitudes

The Canadian Association of Journalists agreed to consider the contribution of journalists to the abuse of persons disabled by environmental sensitivities. One of their board members, Lynne Van Luven, summarized the concern for the CAJ Board. Instead of summarizing the actual situation and history of persons with environmental sensitivities as requested, she summarized the controversy around the approaches of doctors of environmental medicine, betraying the request and the people affected, even as consumer reps, people in organized medicine and government reports warned about the problems involved by confusing these two separate issues. The CAJ, like most Canadian journalists, ignored a long list of positive steps various authorities had taken to stop the exclusion, injury and killing of Canadians with sensitivities, including the need to separate issues related to the approaches of one group of physicians from the legitimacy of the needs of people affected. More than 70,000 Canadians with sensitivities have been unnecessarily killed in health care since the CAJ was asked to improve professionalism amongst journalists on this topic. The CAJ continues to somewhat disdainfully avoid acknowledging or addressing the contribution journalists have made to invisibilizing the actual history, rights and needs of persons with sensitivities, mostly by continuing to eclipse the actual history, rights and needs of the group behind debate about the assertions of "doctors of environmental medicine." A list of the CAJ Board Members who eclipsed the story of persons with sensitivities behind a legitimate but separate debate about the ideas of doctors of environmental medicine, instead of addressing the lack of professionalism in Canadian journalists, is also attached.