Fecal material floating in a zero-g cabin, AND INGORED AS SUCH, EQUATES WITH FRAUD
From the Apollo Flight Journal:
http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/06day2_green.htm
Note the .gov domain.
So why do you stick to your claim that Berry's omission of diarrhea in a journal somehow proves Berry is a fraud?
It's not a journal Matt, it was THE aerospace medicine standard textbook of the time. Berry is writing THE comprehensive chapter on medical concerns with respect to US space missions already flown, or pretended to have been be flown. It is a very important piece of writing. Important to be clear, comprehensive, TRUTHFUL, and so forth.
If Borman really had had diarrhea that floated about the cabin as claimed initially, everyone could have become very very very very sick, and very very very fast. If Borman had "told the truth" and repeated in his text book chapter what he told the New York Times people(see below for New York Times quotes), then were I say Harrison Schmitt's doc, if I read in the 1971 edition of the aerospace text that diarrhea was and will be floating about in the zero-g cabin of Apollo 17, then Schmitt doesn't go, not unless they fix the can.
From the New York Times, correspondent Richard Lyons, December 22 1968;
"Frank Borman, the commander of Apollo 8 reported today that he had developed intestinal flu. He told ground controllers at the Manned Space Flight Center that he vomited twice, experienced diarrhea and was nauseated....
Dr. Charles A. Berry, the chief flight surgeon for the lunar mission commented that the flight might have to be curtailed if commander Lovell and Major Anders became more violently ill at the critical time when the three man capsule is due to go into lunar orbit Tuesday morning....
He described Borman's Colonel Borman's illness as "a 24 hour gastroenteritis". "
Berry doesn't know this. He can't diagnose an astronaut in cislunar space as having viral gastroenteritis. Berry has no idea what this guy has.
More bogus jive;
" Dr. Berry emphasized that Colonel Borman did not have the so called Hong Kong flu. The astronauts were immunized against this variety more than a month ago with one of the first batches of vaccine to become available."
Not Berry, nor any other physician could make such a nonsensical determination, say that since Borman received an influenza vaccine, he would by virtue of that vaccination, be immune. Vaccines then and now were not/are not anywhere near 100% efficacious. The influenza vaccine has a limited range of coverage as well. It only provides for the possibility of immunity against a few selected(the most common) viruses which are/were circulating at any given time. If someone presents to an emergency room with an influenza consistent syndrome, the evaluating physician is not going to cross influenza off his/her list of diagnostic possibilities based on the sick individual's having been vaccinated. The patient will be tested, and a diagnosis of influenza will be entertained irrespective of the patient having been vaccinated or not.
More nonsense;
"Dr. Berry said he believed that it was "extremely probable" that Captain Lovell and Major Anders would also develop the intestinal upset through the "ping-pong" effect. "In fact, I would be surprised if they didn't", he said in an interview."
Oh, is that so Chuck? Wonder why you didn't write that in you text book chapter on the subject, write the part about how you thought with the diarrhea and vomitus floating about everywhere that Lovell and Anders were sure to get sick? I guess that had to do with the fact that at first, everybody thought this bit about Borman being sick would make everything more "realistic". I mean, if the guy has diarrhea in outer space and the docs are wringing their hands over it, it can't be fake now can it? Serious serious serious stuff. Then it started to dawn on you Chuckles and the other yo-yos that concocted this dumb dumb dumb feature of the script, that if real docs read this nonsense, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF GENUINE MEDICAL WRITING like a journal article or text book, they would say, "Hey wait a minute Chuckie!
This is dangerous flying these guys around like this. If you were so worried about this crew of thespians, why didn't you fix the can for Apollo 9, 10, 11, 12?" So we find the simply not not not credible diarrhea story early on, in more or less real-time, a' la this New York Times article actually written while the phonies were supposed to be in space. Then after the simulated splashdown and a moment's reflection, Berry and crew decide, "Whoops! We botched that one. A real doc is gonna' know this is fake if he/she pauses to critically think about the phony story we made up about Borman. Let's clean up the cabin, sanitize it by pretending the diarrhea thing didn't happen." They write "loose stool" in the Apollo 8 Mission Report, because they have to say something. After all, they already admitted the diarrhea, but it won't hurt that much in the Apollo 8 Mission Report, not a lot of vulnerability there because physicians are not reading that. But the aerospace text, now THAT! would be a different story.
Another Berry quote from the 22 December 1968 Times article;
"We would not want this to happen in lunar orbit".
Why is it any more tolerable in cislunar space Chuck? Boy,
I sure want you for my doc! Can you hook me up so that I can breath some aerosolized poop too?!
So the point Matt is that were this real, a huge problem would have been immediately recognize and subsequently rectified in a timely fashion. That is, they would have figured out a way for this not to happen on Apollo flights 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,15,16,17, figured out a way to eliminate the potential for aerosolization of poop. I realize that it is only the air these guys breath, but you get the point.
Not only do they not fix it and have the Three Blind Mice(Armstrong/Aldrin/Collins) poop in bags too, but when Berry writes about it in the definitive aerospace textbook of the time(1971 publication quoted above), the quack conveniently forgets what he told the New York Times, what they pretended was going on with Borman to begin with.
It's bogus Matt, and bogus big big big time.
