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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:18 AM
Subject: CS>Urine in Big Trouble if You Try this at Home. Yes or No?
> List: I got the following off Quackwatch. Is there anyone out there
qualified
> to tell me whether on not the following statement is true (especially the
> part that says urine contains "toxic waste, bacteria, germs ...")? BTW,
I'm
> NOT asking about your feelings about drinking urine. We've covered THAT
> ground at least once. So relax. Roger
This is NOT a discussion of urine. I just wanted to give list members a
little background about Stephen Barrett, the founder of Quackwatch. The
following is from my upcoming HANDBOOK OF RIFE FREQUENCY HEALING. Not all
the formatting has shown up in the text.
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Stephen Barrett, co-author of a book claiming that hysteria and
paranoia, rather than diet and chemical exposure, are responsible for
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, is perhaps even better known for his
misinformation website "Quackwatch." The website purports to uncover
deceitful practices in the holistic healing arts, but it has no foundation
to back up its claims. For instance, in an "Interview of Dr. Stephen Barrett
by a Chiropractic Journal Editor (1983)," Barrett says, "I recognize that
chiropractors help some people, but I also don't approve of what goes on.in
most chiropractic offices.I've done a number of [unspecified] studies and I'
m very familiar with chiropractic literature."
"Have you ever been to a chiropractor?" asks interviewer Don Sanford.
"No, I have not," Barrett replies. "How can you feel comfortable judging a
profession, when you've never had that experience?" Sanford wants to know.
Later, he asks, "What right do you have, as a psychiatrist, to review and
criticize a profession which deals with a procedure and parts of the anatomy
for which you are not trained?"-to which Barrett replies, "I think most of
my criticisms have nothing to do with science....If they [chiropractors]
really want to know what is going on within their own profession, they
should read some of my writings." [Sanford, Don. "Interview of Dr. Stephen
Barrett by a Chiropractic Journal Editor (1983)" on
<www.chirobase.org/01General/sbinterview.html> (June 15, 2001)]
Despite Barrett's involvement as both an "expert witness" and initiator
in legal cases against holistic practitioners-or perhaps because of it-most
of the cases have been dropped. It is not clear where Barrett obtains his
funds for legal fees; writer Tim Bolen estimates that nearly 1.2 million
dollars alone were spent in a case against naturopath Hulda Clark that was
later thrown out of court due to lack of evidence. According to Bolen, the
government of New Zealand has officially labeled Barrett's writings as
"propaganda, and of no evidentiary value," while the government of Ontario,
Canada (a province containing one-third of Canada's entire population) has
formally declared the quackbuster philosophy of Barrett and his colleagues
"bunk." This, however, did not stop the US from giving Barrett an FDA
Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service in 1984 for his
fight against "nutrition quackery." [Bolen, Tim. "What's Eating Stephen
Barrett?" on <www.alternativemedicine.com/digest/issue24/i24-1.shtml> (June
15, 2001)]
Barrett informs his readers that as a board member of the National
Council Against Health Fraud, he is very concerned about helping consumers
avoid getting bilked by worthless holistic health schemes that don't work.
Although he calls himself a "retired psychiatrist," he has not been licensed
to practice medicine anywhere in the US since 1993-in fact, he was never
board certified as a psychiatrist in the first place.
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So, people, please carefully consider the source of what you hear.
Regards,
Nina Silver, Ph.D.
dedicated to world healing and social change
visit my website http://www.Heart-of-Healing.com
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