One of my favorite posts…
I love this one. I just had to post it.
Cheers,
Ryan
The Ask Dr. D’Adamo Question For 9 September 2001
ON THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
QUESTION: I contacted the American Dietetic Association and went to see
a dietician. The organization and the dietician told me there is no
scientific support for your program. Could you please help me with this
response. The ADA told me this is their official position on the topic.
I am sure they circulate that to all its members.
ANSWER: Let’s face facts:
1. As I write this answer, I am looking at a bookshelf containing at
least 40 3-inch thick binders which contain the accumulated research on
blood type that I have compiled over the last 20 years -all
peer-reviewed literature.
2. At this point I believe it is the largest accumulated library on the
subject of the (non-transfusion) significance of blood type in the world.
3. If this pile of research was dropped from a height of six feet onto
the heads of the ruling body of the American Dietetic Association,
several would probably be severely injured.
4. However they would, no doubt, still claim that there was no
scientific support for my theory.
The American Dietetic Association, though cleverly positioned in the
media as an august, impartial, almost governmental organization, is in
fact a politically aggrandizing, professional self-interest organization
(not unlike many others) of dietitians who would like very much to be
the only source of ‘nutritionists’ and ‘nutrition’. A study of politics
of their nationwide campaign to legally limit the use of the phrase
‘nutritionist’ to only ADA registered dietitians shows a sense of
‘Realpolitik’ that would gain the approving node of any Stalinist
apparatchnik.
Thus there is no way that the American Dietetic Association will ever
countenance the notion that a naturopath like myself may have discovered
something of any value, no matter what is produced in the way of
scientific proof. No proof will never be enough; because politically
they could never risk having to explain why it was me (of all people)
rather than they, who discovered it. It would only weaken their claim to
be the source of all reliable nutritional information, which they will
never do.
In time, they may construct something out of my work that they can
conveniently re-label as their own, but this is unlikely, as my work and
I are now too well known.
“I know there are many people out there who hate me, and frankly, I
welcome that hatred.”
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt