The Last Days of the Quackbusters
Opinion by Tim Bolen
I've been following the activities of the
"Quackbusters" for about five
years, ever since the name Stephen
Barrett came up, as a player, against a client of mine in California. I
asked the question "why would this group be using a doctor from
Pennsylvania, as their witness, when there are 300,000 health
professionals in this State?"
The "Quackbuster" operation is a
conspiracy.
It is a propaganda enterprise, one part crackpot,
two parts evil. It's sole purpose is to discredit, and suppress, in an
"anything goes" attack mode, what is wrongfully named "Alternative
Medicine." It has declared war on reality. The conspirators are acting in
the interests of, and are being paid, directly and indirectly, by the
"conventional" medical-industrial complex.
Millions of health freedom fighters, and members of
the public, worldwide, know what I know. Public outrage and reaction is
growing. After 25 years of unopposed success, the "Quackbusters" are now
in real trouble... "The end" for them, has begun. They, themselves are
being hunted.
The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" is in a desperate place
now. They know they've lost the war, and are going to pay a terrible price
for their actions. The fear is in their eyes...
Crackpots?
Yes. When the self-named "Quackbusters" stumbled
around to find a derisive name to call their victims, they picked the word
"Quack," without ever bothering to discover it's origins. Its original
meaning, from Europe, comes from the term "quacksalver" which was used to
describe Dentists who were dumb enough to use mercury (a poison) as
fillings for teeth. Look at propagandist, and "Quackbuster" king-pin,
Stephen Barrett's website (www.quackwatch.com), and you'll find that HE IS
IN FAVOR of mercury (amalgam) tooth fillings. Barrett, his cronies, and
minions, are not known to do intelligent research.
Evil?
Yes. The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" was started
shortly after the American Medical Association (AMA) lost the court battle
to the Chiropractors in Federal court in 1976. The Federal judge ordered
the AMA's covert operation shut down - and leave the Chiropractors alone.
The AMA files, library, etc., ended up in Stephen Barrett's 1,800 square
foot basement in Allentown, PA. Barrett, and his minions, had the common
sense to stay away from criticizing Chiropractors until (I believe) the
Federal Judge died.
Federal judges have a way of enforcing their
decisions using shackles, Federal Marshals, the federal prison facilities,
asset seizure, etc... Even Barrett, in all his incredible arrogance, isn't
dumb enough to match wills with a Federal Judge.
In that early, educational case for me in
California, Stephen Barrett and two slime-ball investigators from the
California Medical Board, had convinced members of the Laguna Beach Police
Department that a nutritionist using ozone therapy was "a sex criminal
preying on women." Flak-jacketed thugs screwed a gun into Salvatore
D'Onofrio's ear, forced him to lie on the ground, and thus began a brutal,
anything goes, persecution.
D'Onofrio's attorney was a hiking partner of mine,
and told me the story on a ridgeline, seven miles up from a trailhead. I
laugh now when I remember my naive response "This can't be happening in
America."
Sal D'Onofrio, through his attorney, hired us, at
day 43 in solitary
confinement in the Orange County Jail. He was in
"solitary" because that's what they do with sex criminals. He was in jail
because the judge had set bail at $500,000, an amount his supporters
couldn't raise. Barrett's minions were ruining D'Onofrio's life in the
press.
We organized a bail hearing for day 48 of
incarceration, put 62 of
D'Onofrio's supporters in the courtroom, LA
network television in the jury box, got the front page of the LA Times,
etc., etc., etc., - and the judge let D'Onofrio out on his own
recognizance. Seven weeks later the prosecutor dropped the
charges.
Who are these people that would, so casually,
inflict that kind of nightmare on an innocent man?
James Carter, MD's authoritative book "Racketeering
In Medicine," published by Hampton Roads, carefully explains the
"Quackbuster Conspiracy."
Alternative
Medicine?
"Alternative Medicine" is defined as any protocol,
action, or therapy that isn't "drugs, radiation, or surgery
oriented."
Wrongfully named? Yes. So-called "alternative
medicine" is actually the health choice of planet earth. It is a
combination of every good health idea invented by mankind, in every
country and culture on this planet. There is nothing "alternative" about
it. Labeling planet earth's health choice as "alternative" is, and was, a
propaganda device.
North Americans have overwhelmingly (by their
purchases) made "Alternative Medicine" the "health choice of the people" -
for the best of reasons: it works better than allopathic, it "removes the
cause" rather than "treating the symptoms," it is cost effective, it makes
people feel better and think clearer, and it doesn't have all those
horrible effects, and side effects, of invasive surgery or prescription
drugs.
More than half of the US health dollar in 1999 was
spent on "Alternative Medicine" and it was all out-of-pocket. Conventional
medicine is being paid for, and is surviving, only because insurance and
Medicare pay for it - the public won't spend an out-of-pocket nickel on
it.
Alternative Medicine philosophies fit the "American
(I'll make my own
decisions)" way of thinking. Allopathic Medicine
philosophies fit the
"Germanic (follow my orders)" way. "Alternative
Medicine" is for people who think for themselves - Americans.
The door to real "alternatives" is barely open. The
future of medicine is right in front of us - it isn't in pharmaceuticals -
it is in nutrition,
body cleansing, prevention, oxygen therapies and
energy medicine - all of which are constantly targeted by the sleaziest of
the "Quackbuster" soldiers.
The "Quackbuster"
Stronghold...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), is a
vital Medical Doctor (MD) control point. It is the trade organization of
all 50 State's Medical Boards. The FSMB is the organization that writes
the policy manuals, and provides training for, Medical Board investigators
and prosecutors all over the United States. The FSMB is the "Quackbuster"
police agency.
The "Quackbusters" use the FSMB to persecute two
groups (1) "Alternative Practitioners" within the MD ranks (they treat
them like traitors), and (2) non-licensed alternative health professionals
(they charge them with "practicing medicine without a
license").
The "Quackbusters" through the FSMB, have been able
to change the focus of prosecutions against "bad doctors." They define
"bad doctors" as those that use alternative modalities - and maximum
penalties are exacted. We have seen in California, that real "bad
doctors," those that kill their patients, actually get off with a
slap-on-the-hand by using the defense "but I prescribed a lot of drugs."
State medical Boards are not serving the needs of "we the people," they
are serving the needs of the "Quackbusters," and their
paymasters.
Medical Board prosecutions are funded by the States
- Barrett, and his slime artists, don't have to spend a dime... I couldn't
even count the number of "alternative medicine" practitioners currently
under persecution from mis-informed Medical Board investigators and
prosecutors. The damage done to Americans from this attack is
incalculable...
Barrett's Dubious Claims About What
"Health Fraud" Really Is...
The US government has indicated that "Health Fraud"
is a major problem in the United States Health Care system. Statistics
show that "conventional medicine" rips off the American public
significantly each year in bogus billings, false claims, unnecessary
procedures and tests, etc...
Attorney General Janet Reno has a special nationwide
"Health Fraud
Prosecution Unit" to deal with this massive problem. The
prosecutions are against mega-greedy hospitals, HMOs, ambulance companies,
nursing facilities, etc. - all "Conventional" medical units - not
"Alternative."
But, if you peruse Stephen Barrett's (don't call him
doctor, he's not
licensed) website, you get the impression that
"allopaths" are to be
classified somewhere next to archangels - and
"alternatives" are snake-oil salesmen, akin to the devil's minions.
Barrett clearly defines, in smirky arrogance, health fraud as "alternative
medicine."
Doesn't Barrett read national statistics on health
fraud? Of course he
does - he just ignores them. And "Barrett's
parrots" at the FSMB mimic their supreme commander's every word in their
policy statements. Anyone can read FSMB policy statements, in their
entirety, on the web. Just go to www.fsmb.org and start reading. They,
like Barrett, define "health fraud" as "alternative medicine," and fail to
even mention the real national "health fraud" statistics.
Why the Fear in Their
Eyes?
Three Reasons: Exposure, ridicule, and public
rage.
(1). EXPOSURE -
Health Freedom Fighters, tired of the persecutions, and outnumbering the
"Quackbusters" 100,000 to 1, are now watching Barrett and his soldiers
carefully. They've decided to put a stop to Barrett and company. Lists are
being made of who the "Quackbuster Conspirators" are, what their function
is, where they fit into the conspiracy, who they work for, who their
associates are, where they live, and what their probable motives are.
Their daily activities, as "Quackbusters," are being monitored, and
documented.
Health leaders consider Barrett, and company, to be
running a subversive organization working against the interests of
America.
(2). RIDICULE -
Examination of Barrett's operation proves that the
"Quackbusters" are a paper tiger. They are a construction with a 25 year
old modus operandi. Their membership is small, they have an even smaller
core group, the industry is turning its back on their extremism, and their
leadership "public presence" is laughable. Their support network could
best be described as "pea-brained."
Their "annual meeting" for the conspiracy was held
in a Super 8 motel in Missouri - 25 stalwarts attended from, at least, six
different plotter groups. Not very impressive.
"Bizarre" Stephen Barrett, his cronies and minions,
even labeled two time Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling as a "Quack." The
American public, in a consumer-driven movement, is rejecting, with
laughter and ridicule, Barrett and company's ludicrous assertions - hence
the term "Quackpot" is now used, commonly, to describe the self-named
"Quackbusters."
(3). PUBLIC RAGE -
The American public is just now realizing two things (a) that a good many
of those "alternative" things being blocked, and suppressed, have been
around for a long while - but not available to them because of the
conspiracy, and (b) that the system to find and put new things in place is
corrupt - and works against Americans. Every "cure" since polio has been
suppressed, and the proponents of those cures, reviled by the "Quackbuster
Conspirators."
Statistics show that every one of those "cures"
worked to some extent...
Barrett, his cronies, minions, and henchmen, have
every reason to fear public rage. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev said it
best. He said, "We would never invade America. For every American has a
gun..."
"You mean my mother didn't have to die that
horribly, or even die at all?" is a question more, and more Americans are
asking...
COMMENT: It is good to learn that this terrible
organization may have its days numbered.
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