Letters Related to Dr. Lowe's Rebuttal to the British Thyroid Association

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| General Letters |  Dr. Allahabadia's Reply |

Subject: Rebuttal to British Thyroid Association's document on natural desiccated thyroid
From: editor@thyroidscience.com
Date: Mon, March 16, 2009 2:12 pm
To: Amit.Allahabadia@sth.nhs.uk

To: Dr Amit Allahabadia
Secretary: British Thyroid Association
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield

Dear Dr. Allahabadia,

I have included below a link to a rebuttal I have written to the British
Thyroid Association (BTA). The rebuttal concerns the BTA Executive
Committee's 2007 document on natural desiccated thyroid and levothyroxine.
After having critically analyzed the Committee's document, I believe it
constitutes a gross disservice to patients and clinicians who might read
and be mislead by its unbalanced presentation of evidence and the false
statements it contains. I feel it is proper to let the BTA know about my
rebuttal so that its officials can respond, hopefully by correcting the
misinformation the 2007 document contains. We at Thyroid Science, of
course, will be happy to publish any statement the BTA decide to make in
response to the rebuttal.

http://www.thyroidscience.com/Criticism/lowe.3.16.09/bta.rebuttal.htm

All best wishes,

Sincerely,
Dr. John C. Lowe
Board Certified: American Academy of Pain Management
Director of Research: Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
Editor-in-Chief: ThyroidScience.com
(603) 391-6061, www.drlowe.com
drlowe@drlowe.com Tammy@drlowe.com
drlowe@FibromyalgiaResearch.org

Subject: Request for reply from the British Thyroid Association
From: editor@thyroidscience.com
Date: Tue, April 7, 2009 4:11 am
To: Amit.Allahabadia@sth.nhs.uk

To: Dr Amit Allahabadia
Secretary: British Thyroid Association
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield

Dear Dr. Allahabadia,

Below is an email I send to you and the British Thyroid Association
(BTA) on March 16, 2009. In the email, I invited a response from the BTA to
be published without censorship at Thyroid Science in the spirit of
scientific discourse. I have not received a response from you or from any
other representative of the BTA. I will be grateful if you or another
representative will give us the courtesy of letting us know, at minimum,
that you received my email, but hopefully also letting us know whether we
can expect a response from the BTA. Thank you for taking the time to
reply.

For your convenience, below is the webpage address to my rebuttal to the
BTA's document on natural desiccated thyroid and synthetic T4/T3
therapies:

http://www.thyroidscience.com/Criticism/lowe.3.16.09/bta.rebuttal.htm

Best regards,
Dr. John C. Lowe
Board Certified: American Academy of Pain Management
Director of Research: Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
Editor-in-Chief: ThyroidScience.com
(603) 391-6061, www.drlowe.com
drlowe@drlowe.com Tammy@drlowe.com
drlowe@FibromyalgiaResearch.org

Subject: RE: Request for reply from the British Thyroid Association
From: Amit.Allahabadia@sth.nhs.uk
Date: Tue, April 7, 2009 4:22 am
To: editor@thyroidscience.com

Dear Dr Lowe

Thank you for e-mail. The Executive Committee of the British Thyroid
Association will consider your comments in due course in consultation
with The Royal College of Physicians.

Best wishes
Dr Amit Allahabadia
Secretary of The British Thyroid Association