Jeremy M. Barker

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:34:25 -0800

Wow. I can't make out my own comment. Sad. Point was, when I put the post together, I figured I'd let the doctor have his say without me interjecting. That was what the first line was supposed to say.

Jeremy M. Barker

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:17:42 -0800

When prepared this postI decided to let the doctor speak for himself with intruding myself in the test, as I wouldn't have given him a chance to respond. That said, I thought I'd clarify something about one of my questions (and his answer) above--I'd been told that after Carol Ostrom's report appeared on June 3 in The Seattle Times that the UW page on the program had added text that seemed to discourage people seeking exemption bracelets. That's why I asked, in the second from last question, whether or not they'd changed the web page, and cited the specific passages. In the responses, this question was dodged without confirming or denying the report, by instead noting that they had extended the date of the study to last through 2010; technically, this occurred after I sent these questions to the UW last Thurs. The change they reference occurred after I originally wrote about this issue on Thurs., June 7, at which point the site still said the study would be concluding in 2009.

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Jeremy M. Barker

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