Pfiesteria: Crossing Dark Water
By Ritchie Shoemaker

360 pages, ISBN 0-9665535-0-0
12/98, Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD

If another topic has generated more political controversy and more research funding for a regional environmental/human health problem, let's see it. From the murky world of a toxin-forming dinoflagellate, Pfiesteria piscicida, that killed millions of fish in North Carolina to the Chesapeake Bay, to the back rooms of politicians who used a perceived environmental threat to foment their personal agendas, Crossing Dark Water is an award winning expose` of the real battle, as it happened. When the evidence supporting the truth underlying the human illness was laid bare to public scrutiny, a predictable series of events followed, events that form the basis of the "Appearance of Good Science," formally introduced in Desperation Medicine. Follow a country doctor in his unrelenting battle to establish the diagnosis (now called Possible Estuarine Associated Syndrome by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and to convince the skeptics and naysayers that a toxin binding protocol works to correct the physiologic problems associated with chronic carriage of the Pfiesteria neurotoxin. Take a look at a model of chemical pollution that just might be more important to ecosystems than blaming "nutrients" for every change we see in our watersheds.

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