[Vision2020] Beyond Crackpottery

[Lee Rozen]

  Rose,

Thanks for your email. We would consider running it as a HER VIEW, but 
at 970 words it exceeds our 650 word limit. If you would cut it to 650 
words and include a photo of yourself, we will run it by the editorial 
board to schedule it for publication.

Lee Rozen
Managing Dimwit, Moscow-Pullman Daily News
409 S. Jackson St., Moscow, ID 83843
Off: (208) 882-5561 ext. 209
Cell: (208) 669-1590
lrozen at dnews.com


On 6/12/2012 8:45 AM, Rosemary Huskey wrote:
>
> On the whole, I support eccentricity – after all, I am not unaware of 
> my own tendency to occasionally stop by the kingdom of Quirky. 
> Nonetheless when idiosyncrasy includes a genuine risk to others, it 
> crosses the line from harmlessly peculiar to potentially dangerous. 
> What jackassery prompted the Daily News editorial board through its 
> designated spokesperson Murf Racquet to address obstetric protocols at 
> local hospitals? It’s not too late to share with your readers the 
> professional credentials held by Daily News editorial board members 
> which provided you with even a scintilla of the background and 
> training necessary to evaluate the risks connected to VBAC deliveries. 
> And what in our troubled world with the genuinely serious issues of 
> political upheaval , economic crisis and environmental degradation 
> suggests to you that VBACs are worthy of your editorial attention?
>
> It was a dim-witted decision to put your two cents into a VBAC debate 
> in the first place. To follow it up by giving space to a VBAC advocate 
> who advertises the following special ‘gifts” and powers tells me more 
> about the decision making ability of the Daily News than it does about 
> the mystical Ms. Hoger.
>
> 12/08/2011
>
> “I have identified with the Crow as a bird itself for its intense 
> beauty, magic and intelligence and as the representation of the link 
> between death and life, the transition, the veil, whatever you want to 
> call it, it is the space in-between. I've lived in that space to a 
> substantial degree myself and it is an interesting and sometimes 
> difficult place.
>
> My youngest son, [*I removed his name to protect his privacy although 
> his own mother clearly didn’t give a hoot*], was very much a girl and 
> very much a different entity up until three weeks prior to birth. We 
> never had an ultrasound, there was never a measurement, and of course, 
> to most people, my statement will sound ludicrous. "He was obviously 
> not a girl at anytime!" (Other than the fact that we all start as 
> girls, but that is yet another story). Anyway, we had quite a series 
> of events occur right at the end of pregnancy and there was a time 
> (although I never worried that he would not be ok) where I had no 
> idea, suddenly, who he/she/it was.
>
> There is the Heisenberg principle 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle> which 
> essentially identifies the fact that we can only be so certain about 
> physical properties at any given time and the closer we interact with 
> the system we are studying, the more change we bring to the very 
> nature of that very system. In a very simplified manner, you can take 
> this also to mean that when we nail down the sex of a fetus in an 
> ultrasound, the parameters become that much harder to change. Ie. If 
> you measure it as a boy, it will most likely be a boy. But anyway, we 
> never measured the baby or nailed him down into any kind of matter and 
> once huge life changes took place, there was this shift. And then, 
> finally, when everything else fell into place, I got the feeling he 
> was going to be a boy and that he was finally going to be born. And 
> there 'he' was.”
>
> One Child in Either World 
> <http://www.umacenter.com/2/post/2011/12/one-child-in-either-world.html>
>
> Among the many “products” she sells I found (and gagged over):
>
> “Replenish and restore hormonal balance with Placenta Encapsulation. 
> Using either a raw foods method or the Chinese Methodology of steaming 
> the placenta first, the placenta is then cut and dried at temperatures 
> which preserve the nutrient and energetic values of this amazing organ 
> which provides the perfect balance specific to YOU.
> ~ Minimize post-partum blues
> ~ Restore vitality
> ~ Provide plentiful antibodies for you and your child
> The dried placenta is ground and placed in capsules for ease of 
> consumption. Umbilical cord is also saved and allowed to shape in its 
> natural way during drying. A tincture will be made for long-term use 
> (menopause, etc.)*$250 ~ includes encapsulation, tincture, pick-up & 
> delivery, and cord drying”*
>
> http://www.crowmedicine.net/products.html
>
>
> Her ability to “heal” includes:
>
> *Distance Sessions <http://www.crowmedicine.net/distance-sessions.html>*
>
> “Many of the same concerns we deal with in the office can also be 
> discussed and worked with from a distance (by phone or email) using 
> elements of Reiki and Clairvoyance or Shamanic Journeying. It is not 
> necessary that we have met in advance or that you have been seen in 
> the office to receive distant work. There are quite a few different 
> ways to describe the techniques or processes, but I feel we are simply 
> tapping into the collective shared consciousness to access details 
> that are parts of the whole.
>
> /Fees are the same as for in-office sessions:/
> /$90 for your initial 90 minute session/
> /$75 for 1 hour follow up sessions thereafter. /
> /Payments online through PayPal.”/
>
>
>     And her credentials, if you had any interest in verifying her
>     claims related to obstetric practice include:
>
>
>     “I have decided to move away from being a doula and am honoring
>     the many past lives of midwifery and herbal training I have had as
>     a mode of channeling that knowledge and wisdom into other sources:
>     the shamanic side of my work, the online education, and my
>     writing. Crow Medicine is and has been many things over the years,
>     but first and foremost, it is how I live and walk through this
>     world; shifting and changing and living on the border of transitions.”
>     Shifting <http://www.crowmedicine.net/3/post/2012/01/shifting.html>
>
> Does the DN have any responsibility to readers when it comes to 
> publishing credentials of advocates for a particular point of view? 
> Was this whole pile of baloney an attempt to stir up discussion and 
> increase circulation? Do you think that these kinds of editorial 
> decisions increase your credibility?
>
> Shaking my head – which frankly was exploding when I researched this 
> woman’s philosophy – and deeply grateful that placenta is not on my 
> lunch menu.
>
> Rose Huskey
>