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Since the summer of 2003 before Paul Tubiana lauched his website http://www.diabetescasestudy.com in reponse to the lack of interest that Ann Wlazelek, Health Reporter for the Morning Call of Allentown showed concerning Paul's discovery that he did not in fact have type 1 diabetes. Paul was responding to Ann Wlazelek's story about the first of its kind pancreas transplant performed on a diabetic at Lehigh Valley Hospital. Paul was concerned because he just learned that past spring through a C-Peptide test that he was producing his own insulin at above normal levels despite taking insulin shots since the age of 7. Paul was concerned that this would become the future, removing a patient's own pancreas without ever checking if they were producing insulin at all. Because if the pancreas was producing insulin that would mean that the root cause was something other than the pancreas, like insulin resistance in the cell receptors. Paul discovered numerous loopholes in the medical diagnositic and screening procedures, and therefore decided not to wait for the media to write something about it but to take action and not remain silent about this fraud and injustice in medicine and medical research. Since then, Ms. Wlazelek has published a story about her mother's theory of how she got breast cancer because of of her work in a shoe store that had a foot X-ray machine. Nonetheless Ann Wlazelek, despite numerous e-mail exchanges about Paul's story and the importance of the C-Peptide test, has not shown any willingness to publish anything about Paul Tubiana's diabetes story. Some sources within the Morning Call have said to Paul Tubiana on condition of annonymity that Lehigh Valley Hospital is their largest advertiser and that it would be a problem if Paul's story could harm the interests of the docotors of that hospital. Lehigh Valley Hospital is the only non-profit hospital in Pennsylvania not to post annual loss (post billions a year in excess profits), according to the newspaper's own reporting. Paul's misdiagnosis case and his 2003 C-Peptide Test result of 6.2 (normal range .89 - 3.2) does not involve any doctor or hospital in the Lehigh Valley because they all occured on Long Island, New York where Paul lived for most of his life before moving to the Lehigh Valley in 2002. Paul is aware that both Lehigh Valley Hospital and Saint Luke's Hospital in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania perform the C-Peptide test on a regular basis, according to local diabetics and lab technicians working for these Hospitals. Given the explosion of the diabetes epidemic in the U.S. and globally and the fact that Congressial and State officials have acted to fund millions in diabetes research and awareness projects, and the fact that elected officials across the country and around the world showed interest in Paul Tubiana's story and the importance of the C-Peptide test, it is a shame that the Lehigh Valley's local newspaper the Morning Call chose not to publish anything about Paul's discoveries which could have ignited important debate and research which would focus on curing the actual causes of diabetes. Like so many things in the Lehigh Valley which was a former steel producing area, the intellectual class here lacks vision, foresight, and wisdom. The Lehigh Valley suffers from a company town mentality. The Morning Call is a company store owned by the leading industries here which are the Hospitals. Three different owners of the newspaper did not change their internal politics. In the future people will look back on the findings of diabetics like Paul and shake their heads why something so simple was ignored for so long just as we look back now and wonder why it took so long to end slavery and and why it took and another 100 years to give free men the right to vote.