Here is a transcript of part of the Sunday Programme of July 3rd. It wasn't in the official transcript on the TVNZ website, but the interviewer's voice sounds so astounded at Sutton's claim that maybe they changed the programme at the 11th hour.
Sunday Programme:( Jackie Marr)..” Are you saying it's psychosomatic- its all in their heads?”
Sutton “ - Well, you're saying that – I'm not saying that. I'm taking the expert advice I receive. As of now, - ar - the best expert advice available in the world – ar – to MAF and to me - is that Btk Spray does not cause - any significant sickness, but that - people who have a perception of risk – ar- can have their health ..ar.. directly affected by this- ar - perception. So we take moves – ar - to control that perception by moving those people out of range of the spray.”
Sunday Programme: “ Soo .. it's only their perception... that they are ill from the spray?”
Sutton: “.. can affect their health.”
Sunday Programme: “ If that's not....psychosomatic, then what is?!!”
Sutton: “ Well – ar ...er..uh.(lost for words) - I mean, you can call it what you like.”
This is the official line of MAF - we who got sick from this spray are to blame, we made ourselves sick by our own 'perceptions'!! Yeah right! When the spray made me sick after the Oct 23 2002 spray, I wasnt even worried about it. I was new to the area, and didn't have any preconceived views for or against the spray. It was only after I had recovered from the infected eyes,the headaches and the unusual sudden severe flu-like illness - which knocked me out for a few days - that I asked questions and started researching this Foray48B.
Notice that Jim Sutton calls it Btk spray - he should call it what it is Foray48B which has a lot of chemicals in it besides the Btk bacteria.
So just who is providing Sutton with " the best expert advice available in the world" ? Advice that trivialises and attempts to invalidate people's experiences of the health effects of this spray. Or is it more like he is getting the advice that best fits in with MAF's perceptions? More on this later...
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Thanks spydog.I think our Minister of Biosecurity is also saying what he has been told to say by his advisors,but he's standing on very shaky ground indeed to dismiss the health impacts of the spray as mere 'perceptions' - in fact its quite bizarre, when there's lots of evidence of sickness immediately following sprays.
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