There is tremendous credibility & influence with this type of group. Think about it...most Americans follow the Doctor's or Nurse's orders. An added benefit with the Medical Profession is that this is typically a financially affluent group. (Example: A short-coming many local groups face is a lack of funds (lack of affluent members) in order to disseminate quantities of DVDs or flyers. Our Dallas Group has distributed more than 31,000 DVDs, but it has meant beans and rice for some meals. ;) )

"Natural News" http://www.naturalnews.com/Index.html
"Natural News" often has reports revolving around Austrian Economics and the Federal Reserve, but recently is in the process of moving that type of news to a sister site. I would like to see them link to this story of the formation of "Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth".

All of these medical professionals can have their logical fallacies of conspiratorial thinking corrected by the good folks of the James Randi edu-meh-cational foundation. After all, they pweach cwitical thinking there, and they all KNOW the OCT is correct. If these medical professionals give them a visit, they will come to their senses and stop falling for the woo-woo.

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Seriously, this is a fantastic development. It's times like this, as an activist, that you can feel the reverberation of the ripple effect.

This is an excerpt of an article and commentary is taken from Mercola.com.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/26/More-Docto...

It is interesting to note the "trust factor" in medical professionals per survey results.
As a sidenote, there is mentioned the phrase: "when a health truth is first reported, it is often ridiculed or ignored entirely"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

ARTICLE EXCERPT

History sure has a tendency to repeat itself, and I would venture to say that in another 100 years, possibly less, your descendants will be looking back on many of the common practices doctors recommended in 2009 -- and regarding them as utterly foolish, just as we do when we watch this video.

Back then, of course, a doctor’s advice had much more authority and credibility, and few would be so bold as to go against it. So you can imagine the influence a commercial like this would carry. Fortunately, the advent of the Internet has done quite a bit to put doctor’s recommendations into a more realistic perspective.

Still, just a few years back a December 2006 Gallup poll compared how people rated the honesty and ethical standards of people of various professions. Doctors were rated “very high” for honesty and ethics and were fourth from the top of the list at 69 percent, exceeded only by veterinarians, pharmacists and nurses, who rated highest.

In other words, 69 percent of people polled believed their doctors were honest and ethical.

A similar Harris Poll from July 2006 compared how likely people are to trust another person, based on the other’s profession. Again, doctors topped this list -- 85 percent of the people polled believed they could trust their doctors, followed by 83 percent for teachers, and 77 percent for scientists.

This is not to say that doctors across the board shouldn’t be trusted. Just that, throughout history, many well-meaning physicians have made very serious errors in judgment very similar to the TV commercial posted above. And this is still going on today.

Obviously, doctors are no longer promoting smoking, but they're wholeheartedly endorsing treatments that may be even more absurd and dangerous, such as relying on drugs for virtually every disease while virtually ignoring the underlying causes of disease.

It Can Take 100 Years for Health Truths to Be Accepted

Today we look at it as obvious that smoking is not a particularly healthy behavior. This change in perception didn’t come about until 1957, when then-Surgeon General Leroy Burney reported a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.

Even then, it wasn’t until 1964 -- when Burney’s successor Luther Terry commissioned a special committee that produced Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General -- that a massive shift began in people’s attitudes about smoking.

But here’s a fact that may surprise you: an English physician by the name of Charles R. Drysdale actually issued a report confirming the dangers of smoking long before that … in 1878!

And Drysdale had reportedly been on an anti-smoking crusade since at least 1864, the same year he published a study showing that tobacco could cause jaundice, “distressing palpitations of the heart,” and other health issues in young men. He even wrote a book explaining the negative impact nicotine could have on your lungs, circulation system, and skin … and also warned people about the risks of second-hand smoke.

Yet as is so common when a health truth is first reported, it is often ridiculed or ignored entirely, and that is what happened to Drysdale’s work.... --Dr Mercola