Dr. Cassidy's study: another fraud and no one has run with the money! |
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Nipawin - July 8, 2000 - by:Mario deSantis (Image above shows Campus of the University of Saskatchewan in the dark) | |
phony researches |
Today, we find that corruption is not limited in the health care industry, it is widespread and it has |
contaminated our universities. This widespread corruption is the consequential result of the | |
managerial mind set of our leaders which can be described as "do what you are told or else." You, | |
reader, can say that we have been discussing Dr. David Cassidy's study at length and that it is | |
enough to go on to another topic. No, we have not discussed at length Dr. Cassidy's study on the | |
merits of no-fault insurance; we still have no-fault victims in pain, we still have no-fault insurance, | |
we still have a lawsuit against Dr. Cassidy and the University of Saskatchewan and we cannot | |
continue to undertake further phony researches which cost millions and millions of taxpayers' | |
dollars. And, I forgot to say that we are talking now about the integrity and reputation of the | |
University of Saskatchewan, we are talking about the education and integral upbringing of our | |
children, we are talking about the future of this province. | |
Dr. Cassidy's study must be challenged |
No, Dr. Cassidy's study must be challenged, academically, administratively, socially, and |
politically, until changes can be made to our social system and democracy returned to function. | |
We have academics who have stated that Dr. Cassidy's study has no statistical relevance(1)(2), yet | |
Dr. Barry McLennan, assistant dean of research at the University of Saskatchewan, is defending | |
this study in the name of Dr. Cassidy as well in the name of the University of Saskatchewan(3). | |
Dr. McLennan has absolutely no common sense |
Dr. McLennan claims that we need further researches to challenge Dr. Cassidy's study and that |
the public should not get involved. This Dr. McLennan has lost his marbles, here we spend some | |
$1.5 million dollars of taxpayers' money in this study, and he doesn't want the public to be | |
involved, that is he wants more millions of dollars spent in useless researches. Dr. McLennan has | |
absolutely no common sense. | |
deserve to be called stupid |
I first stated that this study was biased some months ago(4), and recently, Tim Shire has been |
more outspoken of everybody else and has stated that "Cassidy, his research team, the | |
University and the New England medical journal deserve to be called stupid... When SGI | |
closed the file Cassidy claimed the victim cured(5)." | |
manufacture |
My son James, an MBA student at the University of North Dakota, some weeks ago asked me |
how one statistical study can cost one million dollar. James said "you just enter all the | |
information into a statistical package, for example SPSS, and you get most of the work done." | |
But this is not the approach Dr. Cassidy took in his research. He didn't have the information, he | |
needed to , and whenever Dr. Emma Bartfay was told to manufacture | |
this information she left Dr. Cassidy's team in disgust and sued Dr. Cassidy and the university. | |
So, $1.5 million dollars have been spent to manufacture information for the specific purpose to | |
fake the advantages of SGI's no-fault insurance over the previous tort system. | |
the continuous downgrading |
This research is a fraud and Dr. McLennan is defending it, and since he is full of it he blames |
the original director of the study, Dr. Ken Yong-Hing, of poor leadership. I wonder what kind | |
of leadership is reflected by the poor retention of our medical graduates, the recent leaving of our | |
pediatricians and pathologists from Saskatchewan, and the continuous downgrading of the quality | |
of the University of Saskatchewan, and just now, I hear on CBC radio that a former colleague of | |
Dr. Cassidy, Rein Lepnurm has stated that SGI's adjusters were closing claim files when too | |
many were piling up on their desks(6). | |
business |
To paraphrase honourable Pat Atkinson, Minister of Health, business is as usual and "Nothing |
has been hidden, There's no smoking gun, No one has run with the money(7)." Yes, we are in a | |
world of utter political confusion, we have frauds and no one has run with the money... | |
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General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantisNG.html Documentation on no-fault insurance http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/ | |
Effect of eliminating compensation for pain and suffering on the outcome of insurance claims for whiplash injury, Michael D Freeman, PhD, DC, MPH http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/LetterFromDr.Freeman.htm | |
Re: Effect of eliminating compensation for pain suffering on the outcome of insurance claims for whiplash injuries. Cassidy et al. N Engl J M 2000; 342:1179-1186., by H. Merskey, D.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.(C)., F.R.C.PSYCH. http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/Merskey.htm | |
Proper way to challenge study: more research, by Dr. Barry McLennan, letter to the editor, The StarPhoenix, June 30, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (full text) | |
Dr. Cassidy's study on no-fault insurance: supporting another shock absorber, by Mario deSantis, April 21, 2000 | |
Research, Reputations and Responsibility, by Timothy Shire, July 2, 2000 | |
Former researcher slams no-fault study, http://sask.cbc.ca/ CBC Saskatchewan, CBC Radio's The Morning Edition, July 7, 2000, 8:30 AM | |
The closure of the Plains Health Centre: The $50 million overrun and the gimmick of savings money in health care, by Mario deSantis, December 19, 1999 |