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Vlasak: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
by speakingofresearch
Posted on May 6, 2008
http://speakingofresearch.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/vlasak-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/

Jerry Vlasak is a high profile animal rights activist, and one of the
three spokesmen for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office
(ALPO), an organization which reports acts of violence and vandalism
carried out by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Animal Rights
Militia (ARM). He was formerly a spokesman for Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He is married to Pamelyn Ferdin,
former-president of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).

Vlasak has also made news repeatedly for claiming it would be morally
acceptable to kill researchers:
"I think there is a use for violence in our movement. And I think it
can be an effective strategy. Not only is it morally acceptable, I
think that there are places where it could be used quite effectively
from a pragmatic standpoint.
For instance, if vivisectors were routinely being killed, I think it
would give other vivisectors pause in what they were doing in their
work [...] And I don't think you'd have to kill — assassinate — too
many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount
of vivisection going on."

On the other side of the coin, Vlasak claims to be a practicing trauma
surgeon, lending credibility to the animal rights movement of which he
is a part of. He alleges not to be misanthropist, hiding behind his
position as a practicing trauma surgeon - "I save lives everyday at
the hospital. Everyday, I go to the hospital, I save lives," (KUTV).
So where exactly does he go everyday to practice medicine?

Senate Committee Hearing 2005:
Dr. Vlasak. I attended medical school at the University of Texas, in Houston.
Senator Lautenberg. And where do you practice now?
Dr. Vlasak. I practice in the Los Angeles area.
Senator Lautenberg. At a hospital?
Dr. Vlasak. I do. A number of hospitals.
Senator Lautenberg. What is your favorite, what is your dominant
hospital activity?
Dr. Vlasak. I practice at several hospitals in the Riverside and San
Bernadino area.
Senator Lautenberg. Name one.
Dr. Vlasak. Loma Linda University.

Some claim considering that LA Weekly discovered he had in fact
resigned from general surgery at Linda Loma University in 1998. I
decided to do a little digging myself, scouring the internet for
references to hospitals in which Vlasak stated to practice surgery
(and some others which fit descriptions for hospitals he claims to
have worked in e.g. Loma Linda University Medical Center).
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Riverside Community Hospital
Parkview Community Hospital
San Bernardino Community Hospital
San Antonio Community Hospital
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center

Of those seven medical establishments, two stated Vlasak had formerly
worked there, the rest simply did not know who he was and could not
find him on their medical registers.

One must wonder what Vlasak does when "Everyday, [he] go[es] to the hospital"?

Cheers

Tom

A doctor shouldn't condone killing people. And I'm sure a few animals suffered & died in the course of his medical training.

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