Summary of David L. Lewis's Science for Sale

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The FDA received a copy of the Lancet study, which showed that HIV-infected material could be sucked back into waterlines and expelled via a dental handpiece. They sent a letter to every dentist in the United States and every possession of the United States instructing them to heat-sterilize their handpieces after every patient.
#2 The CDC had changed its guidelines regarding blood exposure after watching a video of me operating a dental drill that showed traces of blood streaming out as the devices were run over a container of clear water.
#3 My brother Mike joined the Navy in 1962, and was trained as a dental technician. After serving his four years, he worked for a dental supply company in Atlanta, Georgia. He noticed traces of blood in the crevices of high-speed dental handpieces prepared for the next patient.
#4 I realized that the countless strains of antibiotic-resistant staphylococci and streptococci that had been injected into my bloodstream over the years were waiting for my immune system to go down from diabetes or some other chronic disease. There was nothing I could do about it now.

Sujets

• Science
• Political Science
• Public Policy
• Technology Policy

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822505551
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on David L. Lewis's Science for Sale
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The FDA received a copy of the Lancet study, which showed that HIV-infected material could be sucked back into waterlines and expelled via a dental handpiece. They sent a letter to every dentist in the United States and every possession of the United States instructing them to heat-sterilize their handpieces after every patient.

#2

The CDC had changed its guidelines regarding blood exposure after watching a video of me operating a dental drill that showed traces of blood streaming out as the devices were run over a container of clear water.

#3

My brother Mike joined the Navy in 1962, and was trained as a dental technician. After serving his four years, he worked for a dental supply company in Atlanta, Georgia. He noticed traces of blood in the crevices of high-speed dental handpieces prepared for the next patient.

#4

I realized that the countless strains of antibiotic-resistant staphylococci and streptococci that had been injected into my bloodstream over the years were waiting for my immune system to go down from diabetes or some other chronic disease. There was nothing I could do about it now.

#5

The CDC considered the possibility of Dr. Acer directly transmitting his HIV infection to six or more patients through needlestick injuries to be highly improbable. They also considered transmission by dental devices to be highly improbable, but not ruled it out.

#6

Dr. Boe and his team were able to demonstrate that dental handpieces could potentially retract and later eject blood from previous patients, which could carry a risk of infecting one in three hundred patients with HIV.

#7

The dental practice in Springfield, Massachusetts, was also contaminated with HIV, but it was not due to reuse of unsterilized dental devices. The practice used a high-speed handpiece to section one of Jim’s molars, and he developed AIDS three weeks later.

#8

The lawyer for the dental company asked each of the plaintiffs’ experts the same question to begin cross-examination: Doctor, do you consider yourself to be a man of science. The answer was always Yes. The lawyer then asked if he had any proof that the AIDS virus was in the handpiece used on Sharpe, and the expert replied yes.

#9

The jury ruled that Breglio was negligent in failing to heat-sterilize his handpieces, even though the American Dental Association recommended soaking them in hypochlorite solution and other disinfectants. However, they sided with the defense’s expert, John Molinari, on the question of causation.

#10

The defense lawyers ignored my requests for information about the CDC and ADA recommendations for disinfection with hypochlorite and other germicides at the time of Mr. Sharpe’s teeth extraction. They wanted to focus on the biggest challenge, proving that Dr. Breglio was negligent even though the CDC and ADA had recommended disinfection.

#11

I was also contacted by Bruce Williams, the father of Whitney Williams, an eleven-year-old girl living in Cook County, Illinois. Whitney was one of ninety children in America with no known risk factors who were infected with HIV.

#12

The total number of sporadic, undocumented cases could be large. According to the US Department of Labor, in 2010, there were approximately 84,000 general practice dentists and 182,000 hygienists actively working in the United States.

#13

The causes behind the simultaneous abrupt declines in cases of hepatitis B and hepatitis C are different and unrelated. The amount of blood passed from patient to patient by dental handpieces, in a worst-case scenario, is equivalent to a needlestick injury involving a 10-gauge needle.

#14

The medical community tends to downplay the importance of inefficient modes of disease transmission, like the spread of the hepatitis C virus through dental practices, to avoid scaring patients.

#15

When government and industry fund universities, their first objective is to create a large body of supportive research in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. However, what they publish isn’t real science, and, therefore, they’re not real scientists.

#16

The only time I ever got criticism for my research or opinions on infection control was from the ADA, and one of its member organizations, the California Dental Association. The president of the CDA wrote a letter to my EPA laboratory director complaining about my research. My director responded that EPA had no problem with my outside activities.