Beware the "Quackwatchers."
Please use critical thinking, people. Just because you see something on the first page of google, OR in the mainstream media, DOES NOT make it true. That just means it's on the first page of google. This could be because it has the most views, but those views can be from a variety of ways.
I used to absolutely believe that just because I saw something on a regular news channel, or in a major publication, that must mean it had to be true. But it took me a VERY long time to finally understand that yes, the mainstream media really is funded by pharmaceutical companies. So there are certain topics that they simply WILL NOT COVER.
This page contains a lot of information about how alternative medicine doctors get slandered by regular doctors. This is a propaganda technique, which you can learn about on this page. Please be sure to watch the videos on THIS PAGE about propaganda, and you will see how widely it is being used during this COVID pandemic.
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Monte-Kline-Takes-On-Barrett----Quackwatch-.html?soid=1101541184149&aid=cJDiWSPYbpQ
http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/quackwatchwatch.htm
I have tried to understand why it is that so many people believe this garbage that's written about reputable medical doctors, and I have a few theories.
Doctors weild much of the same power as parental figures. Because many of us think of a DOCTOR who was there in the delivery room when we were born, they get the credit for bringing us into the world, thereby giving us life, then they sort of develop this God-like reputation and no one can touch them.
Negative words stick. Again, please be sure to watch the videos on THIS PAGE about propaganda. You will see the topic of name calling being discussed.
This page describes why we have a tendency to let the bad stuff "stick."
Like it or not, evolution hard-wired your negativity bias for a reason. Overemphasizing negative events enabled our ancestors to survive. The Caveman might live a more anxious life, hiding in a cave and worrying every sound outside is a predator, but that Caveman will live longer than the one that assumes every noise means nothing. The optimist might be right nine times out of ten, but if they’re wrong once, they’re dead.
What is the negativity bias? Not only do negative events and experiences imprint more quickly, but they also linger longer than positive ones according to ...
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You can't trust everything on Wikipedia, either (but probably don't need me to tell you this). Wikipedia is often edited by doctors who have an extreme bias against alternative medicine.
This is what you seem when you google Dr. Mark Hyman, a functional medicine specialist who understands how all the systems of the human body work together.
Mark Hyman (doctor)
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| Born | Mark Adam Hyman November 22, 1959 |
| Occupation | Physician, author |
| Website | drhyman |
Mark Adam Hyman is an American physician and New York Times best-selling author.[1][2][3] He is the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center and was a columnist for The Huffington Post.[4][5] Hyman was a regular contributor to the Katie Couric Show, until the show's cancellation in 2013.[6] He publishes Doctor's Farmacy on the Internet, which examines many topics related to human health and welfare.
Hyman is a proponent of functional medicine, a controversial form of alternative medicine that lacks evidence for its use.[7][8][9][10] He is the board president of clinical affairs of the Institute for Functional Medicine.[6][11][12] He was the editor-in-chief of, and is a contributing editor to, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal.[13] Hyman promotes a diet known as peganism which has been criticized by dietitians as a fad diet.[14][15]
Quackwatch lists Hyman's 2003 book Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life as one of their non-recommended books due to promoting misinformation and containing unsubstantiated advice.[31]
A Modern-Day Witch Hunt
Julian Whitaker, M.D.
The NCAHF: Our Modern Witch Hunters
Is Your Doctor on the "Quacklist?"
As bad as it seems, calling the cops to silence contrary opinions is only part of the nefarious actions of certain NCAHF members. John Renner, M.D., from Kansas City, an active board member of the NCAHF, has maintained a list of over 2,500 physicians, Ph.D.s and others he deems to be quacks and frauds. To be on this list you just need to belong to an organization that is studying nutrition or any therapy not yet approved by the FDA.
There's a 1990 copy of the list containing 1,137 M.D.s and 52 people with double doctorates. Although the list does not appear to be in general circulation, it may have been supplied to insurance companies and state medical boards. The result could be that alternative physicians are financially blackballed, or put under additional scrutiny.
John Renner has even put Linus Pauling, Ph.D., on this quacklist. Dr. Pauling has been singled out by two authoritative sources as one of the top 20 scientists of all time, along with Aristotle, Galileo and Newton. The only other scientist selected from the 20th century was Albert Einstein. Imagine, John Renner, a relative "no-weight" compared to Dr. Pauling, labels the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel prizes as a fraud.
Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases
At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett conceded that he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the certification exam.
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Consumer Health Digest is a free weekly e-mail newsletter edited by Stephen Barrett, M.D., and cosponsored by NCAHF and Quackwatch. Where does one operation begin and the other end?
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Board Chairman, Quackwatch, Inc.
NCAHF Vice President and Director of Internet Operations
What a wild week this has been on various 'media' throughout the net!
As you may already know, the ever humble, never arrogant, Stephen Joel Barrett, demonstrating his typical humility, so modestly described his public relations operation thusly:
"Twenty years ago, I had trouble getting my ideas through to the media.
Today, I am the media." Time Magazine, May 5, 2001
Barrett is the common thread in the Quackwatch, Quackbusters, National Council Against Health Fraud, ACSH, Rag-Tag Posse, Healthfraud List network
One questions what happened around 1981 and who is backing his "media" presence. Click here for partial list of the various operations he's involved in.
This week, however, I met some of his 'media' team on Wikipedia ... rewriting history and attempting to censor truthful, negative information about him. Because of their attempts to censor me there, I am now updating this page and others surrounding Barrett / NCAHF etc. etc.
Barrett's teams are ruthless when they attempt to destroy the reputations of scientists and doctors and activists who have viewpoints different than Barrett's. "Credential Watch" is one of the many websites he operates. Under oath during a deposition (Barrett Loss to Dr. Tedd Koren) Barrett was forced to admit that he had failed the Psychiatric Boards back in the 1960's, and never attempted them again, leaving his patients with fewer consumer protections. Click here for more revelations about this 'watchdog' operation. Makes the question "Who pays him to investigate the credentials of others?" even more relevant.
After years of his Rag-tag Posse investigating every detail of my life ... professional and personal and posting disinformation and outright libel about me I now ask:
Is NCAHF a legal corporate entity, entitled to collect the donations they solicit????
The State of California suspended NCAFH's license in May, 2003. Paul Lee and others on Wikipedia claim,
" ...The NCAHF is still registered in California. -- Fyslee 18:37, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
That was entirely unfactual when Paul Lee, Barrett's assistant listmaster and Wikipedia publicist wrote that. However, after nearly 4 years of operations with a suspended license, sometime between February and June 1, 2007, they finally got their state license reinstated.
They have claimed they were registered in Massachusetts, but the Secretary of State of Massachusetts has no records of them.
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Click here for website on his loss to me in Barrett Vs Rosenthal
Supreme Court of California decision.
BARRETT v. ROSENTHAL
Case Number S122953
My Website on progress of suit, Barrett vs Rosenthal
(I'm in the process of updating many of these pages.)
NCAHF Posts Names of 2,500 Physicians on Quack List
Click here to see NCAHF, suspended as a California Corporation
What's Eating Stephen Barrett? From Alternative Medicine
Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease
The Quackbusters
Vitality May 2002 By Helke Ferrie
Every one of these listed below has used one or more aliases to attack me, and when responded to, yelled 'abuse.' These are typical Quackwatch tactics. The first 3 work closely with quackwatch as part of their "Rag-tag Posse" formed to harass and attack and defame on the internet those that Barrett is suing in court.
Members from Rag-tag who targeted me to harass, stalk, insult and attempt to Smear by any means possible:
Mark S. Probert, disbarred attorney
The so-called "support leader" working with the above has become one of both Barrett and Polevoy's publicists.
Myrl Carlene Jeffcoat, recently advised Polevoy not to pay his $311,000 judgement to my attorneys.
The people above (plus several more) were involved in hiring a private investigator to hunt me down in August, 2004. They were working closely with Patrick J. O'leary, who simulatenously had been made General Director of Eurosilicone.
O'leary has a history of aligning with people who call themselves "breast implant support leaders" ... while he is on salary from the silicone industry.
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This California Supreme Court Ruling will protect ISP's, blog and chat room owners, and millions of posters from being intimidated by the threat of a lawsuit for something they did not write. The Quackwatch / National Council Against Health Fraud Team led by Stephen Barrett has used threats of and SLAPP suits such as this one, to attempt to silence critics and exhaust their resources for years. These tactics have been used by NCAHF/Quackwatch for years. Read these links below:
Supreme Court of California decision. BARRETT v. ROSENTHAL My Website on progress of suit, Barrett vs Rosenthal (I'm in the process of updating many of these pages.) NCAHF Posts Names of 2,500 Physicians on Quack List Click here to see NCAHF, suspended as a California Corporation What's Eating Stephen Barrett? From Alternative Medicine Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease The Quackbusters Every one of these listed below has used one or more aliases to attack me, and when responded to, yelled 'abuse.' These are typical Quackwatch tactics. The first 3 work closely with quackwatch as part of their "Rag-tag Posse" formed to harass and attack and defame on the internet those that Barrett is suing in court. Members from Rag-tag who targeted me to harass, stalk, insult and attempt to Smear by any means possible: Mark S. Probert, disbarred attorney The so-called "support leader" working with the above has become one of both Barrett and Polevoy's publicists. Myrl Carlene Jeffcoat, recently advised Polevoy not to pay his $311,000 judgement to my attorneys. The people above (plus several more) were involved in hiring a private investigator to hunt me down in August, 2004. They were working closely with Patrick J. O'leary, who simulatenously had been made General Director of Eurosilicone. O'leary has a history of aligning with people who call themselves "breast implant support leaders" ... while he is on salary from the silicone industry. Here is a list of several of Barretts associated operations.
| Thank you so much for your interest. December 15, 2007 updated In the 1990's, Stephen Barrett put his medical license on ice and launched many legal and smear campaigns against several of us: homeopaths, activists, and doctors with far better credentials than himself ... often hiring himself or one of his cronies as an 'expert' in the very lawsuit he launched! This totally backfired on him in his ill-fated suit against King Bio where the judges nailed he & Wallace Sampson as being biased and unworthy of credibility. Because he had failed his Psychiatric Boards, he was never board certified so now, with no active medical license, there was no regulatory body above him as he waged lawsuit after lawsuit and concurrently smeared physicians and scientists and activists he was suing on his perjorative websites. Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Hulda Clark, Dr. Tedd Koren, anti-fluoride activist Darlene Sherell, myself and others were all targets of these rabid assaults. The case that became known as BARRETT VS ROSENTHAL, was first called Barrett Vs (Dr. Hulda) Clark and included many defendants. I am updating this page, soon after reading the total & utter disinformation that Barrett's buddy, the head of the so called National Council Against Health Fraud, Bob Baratz, just put out on this case. (Update of 12/16/2007 I would link to the places I found it on the net, but they've all been nuked in the last couple of days. I have the original if anyone wants to see it. (Update of 12/17/2007: They've now nuked the entire Health Fraud archives in a mad blaze of censoring and changing history and destroying evidence.) In a letter filled with inaccuracies (typical of the Health Fraud / Quackwatch team), to use their term "begging for donations" he shamelessly lies that Barrett lost this case on a technicality. The many Quackwatch / Health Fraud flacks on Wikipedia and Usenet have attempted to change history also. Paul Lee (who runs the Webrings and is Barrett's Assistant Listmaster) has a team on Wikipedia keeping off the facts on the many court losses of Barrett and his various operations.
From the Supreme Court decision, I quote: "As the lower courts correctly concluded, however, none of the hostile comments against Dr. Barrett alleged in the complaint are defamatory." ~~~~~~~~ Further, Christopher Grell lost to me because not only had a never defamed him, I had never mentioned his name nor knew who he was before he SLAPP sued me for libel. He was shamed before the Superior Court Judge when he had to admit this in open court. The third plaintiff, Terry A. Polevoy, an American living in Canada yet suing me in Oakland, California, lost for many reasons. One was because I was not the originator of an email that he claims was libelous. More details on the comment I reposted about him which regarding stalking a talk show host in Canada is here. Before this case was taken to the Supreme Court of California, and Barrett & Grell had already lost twice, Polevoy was offered a total walk-away. He would owe nothing, I would owe nothing. He refused, demanding that his co-plaintiffs (who had already lost in two courts) also be given a free ride. At that point, they owed for their lost Superior Court and Appeals Court attorneys fees only. This week, after 7 long years of being assaulted by his SLAPP suit against me personally ... the Judges ordered the final tally against him, Christopher Grell, and Terry Polevoy. This document can be downloaded here. The total bill for the 3 losing plaintiffs is $430,095.75 for the final years in the Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of California. It appears that Barrett & Grell have left the bulk of the Judgement, over $311,000 with Polevoy and that Grell has now dropped him as his attorney. He will now face interrogatories and collection procedures. ~~~~~~~~~~~ I recently found this excellent and revealing quote about my longterm nemesis, Stephen J. Barrett. EXCERPT: A glimpse into his character can be gained through his habitual use of words to mean their exact opposite. For example, in an article entitled "Poison Mongers," Dr. Barrett refers to people who are trying to stop the addition of fluoride, a poison, to the water supply as poison-mongers. Full article by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis here. June 27, 2007 updated ~ LOTS OF NEWS "Quackbusters" Have Giant Court Losses on Two Continents 6/26/2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Barrett Loses AGAIN in Pennsylvania Appeals Court ~ Chiropractors Claim Court Victory Against Infamous 'Quackbuster': Barrett loses for second time against respected Chiropractor, Dr. Tedd Koren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephen Barrett's co-plaintiff, Terry Polevoy became the third of the three plaintiffs to lose to me in the Supreme Court of California November 20, 2006. On May 2, 2007, both Barrett and Polevoy were ordered by the court to post a bond in the amount of $433,715.93. Here is the pdf file. Here are the facts and links to news articles in Barrett Vs Rosenthal: (aka Quackbusters 0 ~ Ilena Rosenthal 3) Barrett's publicists are working overtime on Wikipedia and Usenet to attempt to rewrite the history and the facts of this case. Simultaneously they have upped a smear campaign against me attempting to google bomb and overtake my personal name with a website of their libelous claims and their accusations about me. ~~~~ NCAHF legal again after nearly 4 years of state license suspenditure! THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST HEALTH FRAUD, INC, after being suspended as a California Corporation for nearly 4 years, has just become legal again. The State of California had suspended them in May, 2003, and as you can see, as of February 2007 when I copied this off their website, they were still suspended yet claiming to be a legal non profit.
~~~~ Other news is that Harrison vs. Quackwatch & Chirobase & Allen Botnick is in the discovery phase. Click here for court documents of the complaint. (opens pdf document)
To read about Barrett's Canadian Sidekick, Terry Polevoy, click here. He is Waging War on several fronts: against me, Adam Dreamhealer, and Truehope, to name but a few. For my declaration under penalty of perjury, please click here. Here's the supplemental declaration, in response to Barrett's bizarre claims, including: I cannot recall any instance where I have publicly called anyone a quack. He has made a career out of defaming those with whom he disagrees and launching Smear Campaigns of unbridled attacks via SLAPP lawsuits, and his defamatory webpages and Quack Lists. Quackwatch 'Guerrilla' Tactics The internet has been a bonanza for Barrett and his many interwoven front groups to use the warrior tactics he described below. His appropriately named "Healthfraud" list, immediately bans any who are critical of Barrett or Polevoy, or who have other ideas about ongoing controversies about which the Healthfrauds make medical conclusions. They attempt to infiltrate any health related group to force their propaganda, however.
The ability to post anonymously and one poster using multiple names have been well integrated into their strategies to bully their opinions on blogs and Usenet. For years, they have waged vicious campaigns against thousands who have different beliefs than they. Harassing medical boards to investigate for minor grievances those they wish to shut down is typical behavior for them. Dr. Robert Sinaiko was but one who prevailed against them after years and years of being attacked by this team. Please visit my blog here on one of their Wars that was involved with attempting to force chemotherapy and radiation on this beautiful soul. Fortunately, Abraham prevailed against their tactics.
When these so-called 'quackbusters' lose in court, they up their attacks and fill the world wide web, blogs and Usenet with more attacks, frequently by anonymous posters. They claim expertise of hundreds of different ongoing medical controversies, and attempt to fill the internet with their viewpoint. Even when someone settles with them, as Dr. Mercola did, the Rag-tag Posse continues to defame and harass Barrett's targets. For several decades, in conjunction with the chemical and pharmaceutical backed American Council of Science and Health (ACSH.org) as their "advisor," Barrett has been attacking health professionals (and practices) with whom they disagree. These attacks extend to activists like myself, or Darlene Sherrell, who queried Barrett on proof of fluoride safety and received years of defending herself until finally winning his SLAPP style suit against her. More on this case here. Thankfully, she prevailed, even after her codefendant, Philip Heggins died during the case. His so called "National Council Against Health Fraud" has launched many lawsuits and they often go after the licenses of people they deem are "quacks." For a list of the various pots he has had his fingers in ... click here. I know I may sound bitter, but being sued and smeared by them for over 5 years is very intense. He calls himself a psychiatrist, surely knowing the amount of stress these attacks create in patients and doctors and their family ... and the high cost stress plays on one's health. Three of the Posse members were on a team to locate my physical whereabouts and dig up any dirt they could find out about me. They posted untrue findings as facts and recirculate this information frequently. I have no idea if they have any boundaries at all. What they will do to silence their critics and those they have sued or harassed through medical boards, criminal investigations etc. seems to have no lower limits. Several friends concerned for my personal safety sent me a strong recommendation to watch The Constant Gardener. Click here if you've not yet seen this powerful movie about activists exposing pharmaceutical cover-ups. MEDICAL WARGAMES The trillion dollar War of Conventional Medicine (Con-Med) aka Allopathic Medicine versus Complementary or Integrative or Alternative Medicine and Medics has been raging for centuries. The last few decades have been especially bloody and brutal with Stephen Barrett at the helm of the Quackwatch Empire. For a bit of lightness to the serious Allopath War ... please visit this excellent tongue in cheek cartoon by Dr. Joseph Mercola and NewsTarget.com by clicking the logo below.
When Barrett or others of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) deem someone a quack ... they launch merciless medical witch hunts to destroy their target. A very beloved California doctor, Dr. Robert Sinaiko went through a many year ordeal ... had his license taken away ... his life smeared ... ultimately to be totally exonerated. Years wasted defending himself from internet and legal attacks because he had different medical beliefs than they. The internet is a medium that works well for Barrett's legendary Smear Campaigns, labeling them quacks or the more modern junk scientist, while the smearers hide behind fake names and multiple aliases. Barrett, Terry Polevoy and their attorney, Christopher Grell sued me for being in conspiracy with people I had never met, and for libeling someone I never knew existed. In the Superior Court I prevailed against all 3 of these self-styled "Quackbusters." On appeal, Barrett and Grell again lost. Their reaction? One of their many publicists, this one so humbly named The Reverend Cathy Credulous (or sometimes, DisinfoAgent or Nanaweedkiller), began ciruclating a libelous webpage falsely claiming that I had been arrested for selling crack cocaine to children in San Jose, Costa Rica. She meanders around the internet, posting advertisements for Barrett and Polevoy and the link to this site to date. Here is a list of several of Barretts associated organizations ... including ACSH.org, long funded by the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Food Industries. When Barrett writes propaganda for them regarding MCS, he refuses to admit that the Chemical Industry pays ACSH.org who pays him. There is a vast conglomeration of corporate dollars that funds a huge and pervasive Public Relations Campaign. The goal? To control information on all media ... television, radio, internet, newspapers etc.
He has not had a valid medical license since the early 90's and never passed the Psychiatric Boards which would have protected his patients Yet he proudly is the Watcher in CaseWatch and HomeoWatch and ChiroWatch, and even Credential Watch ... as hypocritical as that is.
Barrett overly promotes himself as an 'expert' and fills page after page blasting therapies and therapists and broadcasts his "opinions" as facts on the dozens of websites he and his Canadian counterpart, Terry Polevoy control. They learned how to manipulate Google ... filling many websites and blogs with adverts to their sites, and "over promotion" or "quackery" defines them perfectly is my opinion. Here is a list of the websites her operates .. each of them promoting the other as 'experts.'
Look at Barrett's HomeoWatch. He fails to mention his losing lawsuit to King Bio and how the Appeals Court Judges in that case declared him: "biased and unworthy of credibility."
On the WWW there are 417,000 mentions for quackwatch ... many of them stem from Barrett himself. He works closely with Junk Science.com ... whose first funding came from the Tobacco Industry, and now from the Pharma / Med Device / Cell Phone / Oil / Chemical Industries, to name but a few. They draw premature conclusions on ongoing medical controversies and steadfastly deny their connection with the chemical, pharmaceutical and med device industries. What Barrett can't deny, however, is his connection with ACSH.org where his coatpockets have hung for decades. One of the most blatant of his diatribes from there was his false claims that Multiple Chemical Sensivity doesn't exist and his Warcry to go after the licenses of doctors and scientists working to figure out this complex issue. ACSH is funded by the chemical industry. Recently, one of the other ACSH flacks, Michael Fumento, got busted for taking $60,000 from Monsanto for just one book ...
I am one of many who have prevailed against the ravages of his many SLAPP suits. They should have saved their printer ink. So many wonderful doctors, researching the complex Multiple Chemical Sensitivity syndromes, have been investigated and sued because of this same team. After Barrett's initial loss to me, along with co-Plaintiffs, Christopher Grell & Terry Polevoy, one of his many flacks put up a website claiming I had been arrested for selling crack in San Jose, Costa Rica. Concurrently, a so called support leader formerly aligned with me, Myrl Jeffcoat, decided to blast into Usenet filling it with false accusations of me and my foundation, which are being repeated today by others of this team ... 5 years later. It was as if her job description was to turn anything and everything she knew about me to negative, and then make up anything about me and the Humantics Foundation and post this as 'rumor.' When corrected by me of her falsehoods, she claimed each time to "stand by everything she wrote." Today they are repeating the same lies first told about me nearly 10 years ago by then president of Inamed, Patrick O'leary ... that the Humantics Foundation and me personally are financially profitting from my work. They have gone so far as to entirely fabricate a story that I mishandled and misused funds regarding Karina, a precious Costa Rican girl and her family I once helped. Their version is entirely false ... yet now around 6 of them are repeating their lies. His team has bought up a website using my name to harass me with morphed copywritten photos of me, purchased a Domain in the name of our foundation to confuse and attempt to humiliate us that way ... and continue to repeat their lie that funds donated to The Humantics Foundation were used to defend myself against their SLAPP suit against me.
Stephen Barrett & NCAHF LOSE CASE ENTIRELY AGAINST KING-BIO Excerpt: In its Opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with King and Negrete {attorney, Carlos Negrete}. Specifically, the Court of Appeals found that NCAHF "presented no evidence that King Bio’s products were not safe and effective, relying instead on a general attack on homeopathy, made by witnesses who had no knowledge of, or experience with, King Bio’s products, and who were found to be biased and unworthy of credibility." Interestingly, although Barrett still advertises and promotes NCAHF, this California Corporation is apparently defunct (their own word). It shows as "suspended" yet is still being promoted and operated. Though many have asked, no responses as to where they are presently legally doing business has been answered. . Barrett's Loss to Darlene Sherrell. EXCERPT: {Barrett} did not testify that any study demonstrates the safety of current fluoridation levels." Here is Darlene Sherrell's website on Fluoride after defeating Stephen Barrett in court. Here are some interesting links. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Watching the Quackwatch Watchers
Far from being healers in any way, Quackwatch is about ugly Smear Campaigns and SLAPP lawsuits to waste the time, energy, and resources of their many, many targets.
They wage War on every level possible, via Med Boards, meritless lawsuits, smear campaigns, harassing government agencies about those they wish to silence and filling Internet with lies. Many of the Usenet and Blog participants in these campaigns are members of the rag-tag posse. Click logo below for the list.
Here are some links to cases Barrett and/or other NCAHF members have waged & lost in the near past.
Their attacks are multi-fold.
In what was a total disaster to NCAHF... this group of Barrett filed suit against KingBio ... and then hired himself as an expert witness!
The Judges disagreed, calling Barrett, "... biased and unworthy of credibility."
Stephen Barrett LOSES appeal on his SLAPP suit against Owen Fonorow (court documents)
Stephen Barrett's and NCAHF's Loss to Darlene Sherrell, anti-fluoride activist
Quack-busted! Calif. Chiropractor Wins Case Against NCAHF
Barrett & Grell lose to Ilena Rosenthal in classic SLAPP suit
Check out Health Freedom Law Website
Stephen Barrett loses to Dr. Tedd Koren in Allentown, Barrett's hometown
From Barrett's SLAPP suit against me:
" On July 2, 2000, I (Ilena Rosenthal) received another email message from Barrett claiming, "We have no financial connection with the AMA and never have had one." Although I did not write that Barrett had a financial connection to the AMA, Barrett is an author of the AMA’s Reader’s Guide to "Alternative" Health Methods. Surely he was remunerated by the AMA for this work."
Please excuse any typos, link glitches, etc. If you'd like to let me know about them ... or anything else, please do.
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Chiros Respond to biased Quackwatch anti-chiropractor article
- The Big Lie
- QuackBusted
- CHIRO: The Chiropractic Antitrust Suit
- CHIRO: Quackwatch Founder Stephen Barrett Loses Major Defamation Case in his own Hometown
- The Man Who Loves to Bust Quacks
- CHIRO: Setting the Record Straight
- CHRIO: What's Eating Stephen Barrett?
Medical Control, Medical Corruption
How the "regulars" came to crush the homeopaths and other competitors, and penalize patients in the process, is a story of deception and manipulation, of industry self-interest and state power. The organized regulars or allopaths first set out to demonstrate that the homeopaths were ill-educated and therefore should be shunned, but that was difficult to substantiate because most of them were converts from orthodox medicine.
The AMA claimed that the public did not know what was good for it and that the medical establishment must have total control.
We need your help! Thank you for any donation that will help The Humantics Foundation keep the message of the dangers of breast implants before the public. We have spent 12 years on this Mission ... providing free information on this highly charged, controversial topic. Today more than ever ... the breast implant industry and their very connected public relations teams have a lot of power to keep their corporate backed message before the public. Please click paypal below ... credit cards are now accepted. Thank you very much.
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FDA Warning Confirms ADHD Drugs Cause Sudden Death, Heart Attack and Strokes
The Quackwatch Squad attempts to stop scientific research on nutritional alternatives to ADHD drugs, while promoting these dangerous drugs. They use disbarred attorney, Mark S Probert to attack fine scientists on Usenet.
King's Sudden Death Shocked Her Children ... links to come of how Quackwatch used her death to launch yet another attack on the Mexican clinic where she passed.
Excellent article that totally goes counter to the claims of quackwatch.
Common Industrial Chemicals In Tiny Doses Raise Health Issue
July 25, 2005
By PETER WALDMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
We need your help! Thank you for any donation that will help The Humantics Foundation keep the message of the dangers of breast implants before the public. We have spent 12 years on this Mission ... providing free information on this highly charged, controversial topic. Today more than ever ... the breast implant industry and their very connected public relations teams have a lot of power to keep their corporate backed message before the public. Please click paypal below ... credit cards are now accepted. Thank you very much.
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http://www.truthwiki.org/stephen-barrett-quackwatch/
Stephen Barrett (Quackwatch)Posted 5 years ago under Uncategorized
Retired psychiatrist and author of Quackwatch, a mission to slam holistic medicine and call it all “quack” medicine, has been officially declared by the US Court System to be “Biased, and unworthy of credibility.” Stephen Joel Barrett, born in 1933, also co-founded the NCAHF – National Council Against Health Fraud, which, again, is a front group that attacks natural medicine, such as Chiropractic, Homeopathic (3), Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, and even Hair Analysis, all that have proven track records and now scientific PROOF of safety and efficacy, unlike most allopathic chemical prescriptions or chemotherapies. Everything Barrett writes he claims is in the realms of “consumer protection” and “medical ethics” and calling out “scientific skepticism,” but his true intentions have all been revealed already, by his own mission statement:
In a lawsuit in Canada Barrett admitted to the following: (1)
“The sole purpose of the activities of Barrett & Baratz are to discredit and cause damage and harm to health care practitioners, businesses that make alternative health therapies or products available, and advocates of non-allopathic therapies and health freedom.”
Barrett want to CAUSE DAMAGE AND HARM to health care practitioners who heal people with natural products and natural therapies. Barrett even wants to “cause damage and harm” to businesses that simply make alternative health therapies “available. That means if you own or run a business that sells natural products or uses them to heal their patients, you and your business are in danger, according to the mission statement posted by this 1957 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also knows law, from his time at La Salle Extension University in Chicago, which makes him believe he is untouchable when he hawks and harasses natural healers and their legal livelihood. Per the Bolen Report, he practiced with his medical license until 1993 and he now rides out his years in Chapel Hill, NC. (5)
Barrett is an “advisor” and “fellow” at propaganda organizations ACSH and CSI, two major fronts for the biotech industry and their toxic GMO
ACSH, American Council on Science and Health, was founded with funding from the junk food and tobacco industries, so don’t let the dime-store name fool you for one second. Before launching ACSH, Elizabeth Whelan wrote books promoting chemicals and additives in food, and the book jacket cover to “Panic in the Pantry” said, “Eat your additives, they’re good for you.” By the early 1980s, ACSH’s donors included Dow, Monsanto, Mobil Foundation, Chevron and Bethlehem Steel. In 1984, ACSH helped Georgia-Pacific, a leading formaldehyde maker, get a court ruling overturned that would have banned formaldehyde insulation. Much like the AMA, the American Medical Association, ACSH hires known criminals to “run the show.” The current executive director and acting president of ACSH, Dr. Gilbert Ross, had his license to practice medicine revoked in 1995 for personal misconduct and was sentenced to three-plus years in prison and was ordered to pay restitution for scheming and defrauding New York’s Medicaid program. This is where Barrett serves as an “advisor” currently, where the “junk science” council reigns on, and where the original founder, Elizabeth Whelan, the “Junk Food Queen,” is an infamous legend–for her defense of companies that make products with low or no nutritional value at all, and that contain known carcinogens.
ACSH takes the position that calling conventionally processed foods “junk science” promotes unnecessary fear among the population that too many ingredients in foods are implicated as cancer-causing agents, although one in every three Americans will get cancer in their lifetime and half will not survive it. Still, Barrett and his cohorts at ACSH try to discredit any concerns about the food industry and food products that have been proven toxic by the very science they claim to be protecting from health enthusiasts. Another known hack and repeat offender writes for ACSH, a man by the name of Jon Entine, who’s been fired from Forbes.com because his reputation as a shill precedes him.
CSI is even worse. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry has one mission, and that is, through multi-media, to convince all Americans that there is no danger whatsoever in consuming GMOs, genetically modified organisms in food, which means people should never be worried about eating synthetic, chemical pesticides and toxic herbicides, whether they are contained in the plants genes. This is where Barrett serves as a fellow. He’s also a peer review panelist for a couple medical journals. Per his website, followers can find about 2,000 propaganda articles he’s created over the years, and lists of colleges and medical schools where he guest speaks and spreads his “mission” to cause harm to and destroy all natural and holistic medicine, the healers, their businesses, and any history of success.
FDA still trying to bury natural cures with fraudster writers like Barrett
The FDA gave Barrett’s “Quackwatch” and award in May of 2003 for destroying nutrition information and healing and those who promote it. Barrett ironically himself was listed as a skeptic in Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. He was also profiled in Time Magazine back in 2001, the Magazine that promotes GMO propaganda, along with National Geographic, (10) the latter of which proclaims that anyone who doesn’t believe in the safety of chemicals like mercury in vaccines and toxic pesticide chemicals in food also still believes the world is flat and that America never landed a man on the moon.
The magazine Spiked-online included Barrett in a survey of 134 persons[17] they termed “key thinkers in science, technology and medicine.”[18][19] When he was asked: “What inspired you to take up science?” he replied that his appreciation of medical science:
probably began when I took a college course in medical statistics, and learned what makes the difference between scientific thought and poor reasoning. Medical school brought me in touch with the rapid and amazing strides being made in the understanding and treatment of disease. My anti-quackery activities have intensified my interest and concern in distinguishing science from pseudoscience, quackery and fraud.[19]
“Science-based” pseudo-science writer Stephen Barrett calls anything nutritional “quackery” or “health fraud”
“Quackwatch” was dissolved because it was based on lies and purported myths. In its effort to discredit all nutrition as a form of health, healing and disease prevention, Barrett painted himself into a corner and was completely discredited as a science professional, along with his hoaxy site and “non-profit” front called “Quackwatch.” Turns out Barrett is the quack himself, and a shill for the biotech and chemical-agriculture-industry (GMOs), just like the hack Jon Entine and the Monsanto shill and self-proclaimed “public scientist” Mr. Kevin Folta, who, for now, still practices experiments and and writes propaganda verbatum, as requested by Monsanto, at the University of Florida, per the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html?_r=1
More on chemical-industry hack Kevin Folta: http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-kevin-folta-university-of-florida/
Proof on violent offender (domestic) and shill journalist Jon Entine: http://www.truthwiki.org/jon_entine/
NETWORK OF CORRUPTION
The following is a laundry list of shills and propaganda fronts well-known by the inner-network of corruption. These are known quacks, paid science shills, medical fraud artists and other propaganda-spreading organizations pushing GMO and/or toxic vaccines:
Poul Thorsen: http://www.truthwiki.org/poul-thorsen-psychiatrist/
Paul Offit: http://www.truthwiki.org/paul-offit/
Kevin Folta: http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-kevin-folta-university-of-florida/
Jon Entine: http://www.truthwiki.org/jon_entine/
Center for Food Safety: http://www.truthwiki.org/center-food-safety-cfs/
“GMOanswers.com”: http://www.truthwiki.org/gmo-answers-biotechnology-website-gmoanswers-com/
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry: (4)
http://www.truthwiki.org/committee-for-skeptical-inquiry-csi/
Council for Biotechnology Information:
http://www.truthwiki.org/council-for-biotechnology-information-cbi/
Skeptical Raptor:
http://www.truthwiki.org/skeptical-raptor/
Karmanos Cancer Center:
http://www.truthwiki.org/karmanos-cancer-center-kcc/
David Gorski a.k.a. “Orac:”
http://www.truthwiki.org/orac-david-h-gorski/
Susan G. Komen Foundation:
http://www.truthwiki.org/susan-g-komen-foundation/
American Cancer Society:
http://www.truthwiki.org/american-cancer-society-acs/
The CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.truthwiki.org/cdc-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/
CDC network of corruption exposed in full here: http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2015/03/02/cdc-who-and-big-pharma-a-network-of-corruption/
The AMA: American Medical Association:
http://www.truthwiki.org/american-medical-association-ama/
The Washington Post:
http://www.truthwiki.org/washington-post/
Jimmy Wales, ex-porn-dealer (Bomis) and founder of the fake online dictionary, Wikipedia:
http://www.truthwiki.org/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-founder/
Barrett’s QUACKERY EXPOSED as he persistently attacks natural healers and will not ever mention dangers of allapthic chemical medicine
Barrett’s main platform for GMO propaganda is Quackwatch, where he has become the center of controversy and criticism for attacking alternative medicine and the practitioners. The Washington Post, one of the biggest GMO-promoting newspapers today, gave Barrett some coverage once and Barrett unethically published doctor’s names.
Barrett completely denounces legitimacy of homeopathy, chiropractic and acupuncture
Barret relies on negative research for his reporting on alternative medicine, ignoring positive case studies that are evidence-based. He wants allopathy to end ALL alternative therapy research and make it illegal, claiming none of it has any “plausible mechanism of action.” Barrett reports his own website to be a useful source for consumer information and he cites and namedrops his own Lancet article frequently for presumed status.
MD Stephen Barrett attempts to cover up known causes of autism with propaganda articles via AMA support
In 1985, Barrett wrote “Commercial hair analysis. Science or scam?” to purposely destroy a profession and analysis method that is PROVEN legitimate today in every way. The Health Ranger Mike Adams runs an ICP MS lab much the same as the labs and scientists that do hair analysis for heavy metal toxins and mass mineral deficiencies. The JAMA – Journal of the American Medical Association, published Barret’s piece as if it were scientific proof that there was no science behind hair analysis, and it was NEVER retracted. It ended up that he concluded that “commercial use of hair analysis in this manner is unscientific, economically wasteful, and probably illegal.”
Dr. Stephen Barrett is completely biased and unworthy of credibility; however, his report has been continually cited in many articles, including one which concluded that this kind of testing was “unreliable.” It is now being exposed that heavy metal toxins, namely mercury, DO CAUSE AUTISM, as CDC head scientist and whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, told the world just two years ago. http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-william-thompson/. The AMA still doesn’t want anyone to know that hair analysis works. Hair analysis could aid doctors in determining proper nutritional treatments for children affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those affected by the more specific Asperger’s syndrome, which is just autism with lesser symptoms and limitations.
MDs and science quacks calling natural healers “quacks” – a popular, profitable and unethical business practice in U.S. since before WWII
The word quack first applied to dentists who used mercury fillings for their patients (and most still do), but the term was used later in popular writings to mislabel natural healers and even naturopathic physicians. Today, the word quack applies to Western medicine and allopathic physicians. In 2016, there are approximately 850,000 physicians with an active license to practice medicine in the United States, yet only 7% hold a D.O. (doctor of osteopathic medicine), the rest mainly address symptoms of what GMO and toxic allopathic medicine cause. Natural medicine dates back millennia. Much of natural medicine has been proven by science.
Allopathic medicine demands that scientists cook up synthetic medicine in a lab and mix it with various genetically modified DNA, bacteria, and viruses in order to make sure the immune system is functioning. This is not science, as Barrett would defend. Barrett refuses to even engage the subject of science-based medicine statistics or lab work because that’s outside of his realm or “scope” of conversation. That’s because chemotherapy, on average, only yields a 2.3% average for success, and vaccine violence causes more harm than good, and GMO means chemical pesticides are inserted into the DNA of plants and animals that become human food.
Dr. Stephen Barrett rides the pseudo-science bandwagon – just another paid shill and internet “quack” troll
A lie conjured up 100 years ago, the stigmatizing “quack” label belongs on the office door of one Stephen Barrett. His articles are riddled with quackery, and take blind pop shots at anything natural that serves to heal Americans, or that naturally builds immunity, or that naturally cleans lymph fluid, or that naturally detoxifies the body of chemicals and heavy metal toxins. Western medicine itself has become “pseudo-science” by falsifying data, manipulating variables and results to their favor during tests, and denying independent studies that refute their results. Barrett rides this pseudo-science bandwagon (12) and cites falsified research that should have been retracted long ago.
His science background at prestigious colleges and universities does NOT give him the license to “character assassinate” (defame) anyone and everyone that practices alternative medicine. At some point it becomes a Rico (mafia-like) case–there’s just too long of a track record of offenses to ignore anymore, and the verdict is an easy one to make–guilty. He should be held liable, but he’s not, yet.
Still, in today’s highly deregulated and unregulated food and medicine industries, Stephen Barrett is just another rogue shill getting paid to push biotech and pharma propaganda. His “quackbusting” is quite the profitable industry, just investigate his cohort Jon Entine. Barret is a crook. A repeat offender too. In one California Court case a former cohort of Barrett’s and Board Member of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), Mr.William Jarvis (PhD), testified under oath that Stephen Barrett (and a partner-in-crime) conspired to use the NCAHF, without Board permission, as a Plaintiff in more than three dozen cases, where both men testified as “expert witnesses,” and collected fees for it. The NCAHF Board was never consulted.
Western Medicine’s “double blind study” – most popular argument used by shills
“If it hasn’t been “double-blind studied” it’s worthless, in other words, according to Barrett. What organic food companies are doing double-blind scientific research to find out if clean food heals ailments or prevents disease, in other words? Everything, according to Barrett, must fall under the umbrella of a world scientific consensus that somehow already exists about vaccines, pesticides, and prescription medications.
A completely fabricated and fictional “World Scientific Consensus” about GMO has been perpetuated over recent years in mainstream media outlets and is proclaimed as “science” and “science-based” and “evidence-based” by the very manufactures, distributors and sellers of genetically modified organisms in agriculture in the United States of America. Most Americans are “in the dark” concerning the real scientific community discussion regarding this thirty-year-old experiment called “transgenics.” The current “think tanks” between rogue industry scientists, hack journalists and pro-GMO “reporters” are nothing more than propaganda mixed with delusions of grandeur. Plus, a “double-blind study” is JUST ONE TYPE of at least 45 different scientific studies utilized, and approved for use within the scientific community. “Double-blind” is and was designed for, and is usually restricted to, pharma corporations testing new dangerous drugs so they can make bogus safety claims about their own truly untested products.
According to records, Barrett never became “Board Certified” as a medical doctor, or for the psychiatric profession, but rather accepted “part time” positions throughout his “career” as a psychiatrist, from which he brags he “retired.” This is what shills do–they inflate their credentials and call themselves “experts” at any subject they engage with their “professional” articles and at guest-speaking events. By 1993, Barrett’s part-time career was terminated at the State Mental Hospital in Pennsylvania, where he only had nine patients over his last five years, and couldn’t afford malpractice insurance the state required. After that, Barrett cooked up his “quackbusting” website, that later was reviewed by three California judges (in a published appeals court decision) and declared “biased, and unworthy of credibility.” Barrett was also named in a racketeering (RICO) case in Federal Court in Colorado. In Ontario, Barrett was sued for nefarious activities and for interfering with civil rights of numerous Americans, in his efforts to silence his own critics, for example, by increasing his victim’s costs. (2)
Who Funds Barrett’s Propaganda and Defamation Lawsuits?
At one point, Barrett was carrying on 14 separate legal actions at one time. How can a writer who claims to make less than $60k a year afford all of that? On average, the types of cases Barrett was fighting could have easily run over $1 million in legal fees, or even upwards of $1.5 million. The whole NCAHF and quack-buster operation is under close scrutiny by the American Court system. The whole narrative has been completely discredited, but how many people really know–that is the problem. They still claim that alternative medicine must PROVE their products work, or it’s “health fraud,” yet ZERO pharmaceutical medications or any vaccinations or flu shots have ever been proven to work, and there is NO scientific proof available, and that is even disclosed on the drug inserts the doctors are supposed to review with each and every patient, but don’t. Just listen to the commercials on television and the side effects and you know. So who funds Mr. Barrett? Biotech and Pharma – they both like his style of propaganda and attack dog tactics regarding alternative medicine. (7)
Barrett has the gall to testify in courts so alternative health companies will GIVE him money to get off their backs. His script comes down from the top and is solely intended to waste big money for any natural treatment doctors or organizations that are doing well. And so … the war against natural medicine wages on by the crooks, and there will always be false, fraudulent and defamatory information spread about real cures and natural disease prevention, via organic food, herbs and even indigenous remedies. Barrett’s personal vendetta against natural medicine no doubt stems from his failures as a doctor, his science background, and his own ill-health.
Healthcare Fraud Specialist, Stephen “Quack” Barrett
Barrett himself has filed defamation lawsuits against at least 40 people across the USA in the past five years and has not won a single one of them at trial. Also, because Barrett failed the medical board exam required for practicing psychiatry, by claiming he was or is now a “retired” doctor of this nature is complete fraud and misrepresentation for the purpose of spreading propaganda (9) for income. The use of the “MD” after his name is misleading. He has NEVER performed scientific research, NOR has he ever written one SCIENTIFIC PAPER, but still he will try to discredit Nobel Prize winning scientists and Naturopathic Physicians who DID pass their boards and ARE licensed professionals who do actual research about the treatments they use and recommend. Barrett is simply a con-artist who wishes he was an expert at science and medicine. His “profession” began long ago when the AMA first created their own propaganda department called the “Committee on Quackery,” exclusively created with the sole purpose of attacking and discrediting anything that is not allopathic.
Barrett has conceded his ties to the AMA, the FTC and the FDA, in court
Barrett has proven ties to the drug companies and is a paid puppet of the pharmaceutical and Biotech cartel. (11) He attempts to illegally prosecute those who legitimately heal people with non-chemical based therapies. He is engaged in massive fraud. He is not an expert at anything. He is not lawyer, a scientist or a board-certified psychiatrist. He is not an expert on GMO (13) or vaccines. He is not a nutritionist. He’s a paid sponsor of the regulatory agencies that have riddled American food with genetically modified organisms and dangerous heavy metal toxins. Barrett is only an expert at taking people to court (8) for being innocent and trying to make a difference in people’s health. The “Quackwatch” quackbuster operation is one big conspiracy, along with GMOAnswers, NCAHF – National Council Against Health Fraud, and ACSH. (6)
It’s all part of one big monopoly run by Monsanto and a handful of other biotech firms, and by the top money-making pharma companies that have created revolving doors at the regulatory agencies in order to support their own private investments in healthcare fraud.
Consumers Beware: Five components of the Quackbuster Propaganda Network
Consumer Health Digest is a newsletter sent out weekly to thousands of subscribers, mostly lower and middle level employees of county, state, and federal health administration and enforcement agencies, and of course employees of health insurance companies. The “newsletter” tells employees to watch out for “bad people” (meaning anyone who doesn’t bow down to allopathy). The “Health Fraud Discussion Group” is encouraged to ask quackbuster “experts” (liars) questions they may have about alternative medicine, so it can all be shot down proper, by fraudsters like Barrett, Entine and Folta. Then they have the “Skeptics Discussion Group” – which is just more propaganda, and the “James Randi Discussion Group,” run by a fifth-rate magician, much like CSI, the committee on skeptical inquiry. Then there’s SSR.com for destroying natural health initiatives. These should all be investigated thoroughly by regulating authorities, (14) if there are any legitimate ones left in America. Wikipedia is all part of the pharma and GMO cartel of miseducation and falsified research published as the “online encyclopedia.”
Sources:
(1) http://www.quackpotwatch.org/quackpots/quackpots/barrett.htm
(2) http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/california_appeals_court_bludgeo.htm
(3) http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/homeopaths_now.htm
4) http://www.truthwiki.org/committee-for-skeptical-inquiry-csi/
(5) http://bolenreport.com/feature_articles/Doctor%27s-Data-v-Barrett/may%20discovery%20fight.pdf
(6) http://www.truthwiki.org/the_american_council_on_science_and_health/
(7) http://www.naturalnews.com/039258_allopathic_medicine_quacks_doctors.html#ixzz41BwkVQ2L
(8) http://www.naturalnews.com/041832_quackwatch_Stephen_Barrett_defamation_lawsuit.html#ixzz417UJr9KR
(9) http://www.encognitive.com/node/1213
(10) http://www.naturalnews.com/049291_National_Geographic_vaccines_GMOs.html
(12) https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2303691-kevin-folta-uoffloridadocs.html#document/p10/a237532
(13) http://www.truthwiki.org/gmo-safety-research/
(14) http://www.truthwiki.org/american-medical-association-ama/
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