"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?"
Thus began my education.
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."
Huh?
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...