[Health&Healing] Quackbusters Take Another Blow- FTC Vindicates Hulda Clark

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FTC Vindicates Hulda Clark....

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

 

Research Scientist Hulda Clark, quietly this last weekend, attended

the American College for Advancement of Medicine (ACAM) meeting in

San Diego, California. I was there also. It was a superb meeting.

 

If there was a quiet smile on Hulda Clark's face, and there was, it

was for two reasons: (1) because her attorney, Carlos Negrete, had

just informed her that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Commissioners had signed a settlement agreement over an internet

website issue involving Clark's name.

 

The settlement agreement is a landmark, and sets guidelines for ALL

internet sales of health products, and the method in which claims

can be made. For now.

 

The second reason (2) Clark was smiling was because of the public's

reaction to her new book " The Prevention of All Cancers... " . This

book is a detailed analysis of cancer, its causes, the immune

system, and the means ANYONE can use, on themselves, or others, to

prevent cancer from taking life. What is really important about

this book is that Clark identifies what is wrong with our water

supply, ands why our water supply is damaging our immune systems.

 

The " quackbuster " conspiracy, over the last several years, has been

trying to use the FTC to damage competitors to Big Pharma.

Sometimes they've been successful. Hulda Clark, her theories, her

books, and her inventions, have been primary targets. But with

Clark, the " quackbusters " have dismally failed. It could be said,

with evidence, that no matter what the " quackbusters " do, or try,

Clark just becomes more popular, and finds more new things to

benefit humanity.

 

The bottom line, here, is that the most recent " quackbuster "

against Hulda Clark has once again failed. In a minute I'll tell

you why it failed. But first let me tell you what actually happened.

 

On January 27th, 2003 the FTC filed an action against " Dr. Clark

Research Association (DCRA), a California corporation that uses a

San Diego, California, address; Dr. Clark Behandlungzentrum GMbH, a

company based in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and doing business as

Dr. Clark Zentrum (DCZ), and their owner, David P. Amrein. "

 

Further, " The FTC alleges that the defendants made numerous

unsubstantiated claims about the Zapper, the Syncrometer, the 21 Day

Program for Advanced Cancers, and the Herbal Parasite Cleanse,

including through the use of testimonials. "

 

At the bottom line, the FTC originally wanted:

 

" WHEREFORE, plaintiff Federal Trade Commission, pursuant to Section

13(b) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), and the Court's own

equitable powers, requests that this Court:

 

1. Award plaintiff such temporary preliminary injunctive and

ancillary relief as may be necessary to avert the likelihood of

consumer injury during the pendency of this action, and to preserve

the possibility of effective final relief;

 

2. Permanently enjoin defendants from violating the Federal Trade

Commission Act as herein alleged;

 

3. Award such relief as the Court finds necessary to redress injury

to consumers resulting from defendants' violations of the FTC Act,

including the refund of monies paid and the disgorgement of ill-

gotten monies; and

 

4. Award plaintiff the costs of bringing this action, as well as

such other and additional relief as the Court may determine to be

just and proper. "

 

The original January 27th, 2003 FTC Press Release, and the

accompanying documents can be find by going to

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/01/drclark.htm.

 

Why did the FTC think they wanted to shut down Hulda Clark?

 

For two reasons, I think.

 

(1) The " quackbusters, " through their " letter campaign "

intentionally misled the FTC to believe that " Clark is making

millions off the sale of her products. " I know about some of the

letters, and who wrote them. I also know that Hulda Clark's

only " product " is her books. She sells no supplements, or makes no

income from the sales of supplements.

 

(2) The " quackbusters " see Hulda Clark, and her books, as probably

the biggest threat, worldwide, to their obscene profits - for Clark

teaches people, through her books and lectures, the reality of their

own bodies and immune systems. The New York ad agency had a

meeting, targeted Clark, and went to work.

 

As we all know, the New York ad agency has a set piece it puts in

place when it wants to destroy competition for its Big Pharma

paymasters. In an earlier newsletter, called " The Quackbuster's

Newest Scam - " Operation Cure-All " ..., I detailed how it works.

Below is an excerpt:

 

" The focus has been shifted since the quackbuster paymasters

discovered that (1) Barrett, and company, just can't deliver the

goods, anymore. And (2) Robert Baratz, the current President of the

National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). who was brought up

from the minor leagues with high hopes, is turning out to be an

amusing (for us) embarrassment (for them).

 

Now, the quackbusters are using the FTC/FDA " Operation Cure-All " as

their platform. Herein, I'll detail how I think they're doing it.

In another newsletter I'll tell you how simple it will be to thwart

them - one more time. "

 

Here's how they do it...

 

They decide who they're going to hit. The advertising agency (which

controls major drug advertising) writes up the stories that are

going to be distributed to their " letter writing brigade. " The

letter writers, following the guidelines, then write to the FTC,

the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, to set a basis for the complaint.

Then the ad agency writes stories, getting quotes from the likes of

Barrett, Baratz, etc., on the victim. The stories are sent out to

the media in which the advertising agency's drug clients advertise.

The stories are printed in the media as though they were true.

 

Once the stories hit the press, a second wave of letters goes out to

the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, to put pressure on upper

management to act. Then more media is generated, this time with

quotes from the quackbuster insider FTC employees to make it sound

official that the FTC is interested. Once this happens, letters and

phone calls go out from supposedly " irate consumers (quackbusters), "

once again to the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All upper

management, demanding to know why they aren't doing something.

 

Then, letters and phone calls go out from supposedly " irate

consumers (quackbusters) " to certain members of Congress demanding

to know why the FTC, the FDA, and Operation Cure-All, aren't doing

something.

 

Within days, upper management of the FTC, the FDA, and Operation

Cure-All, are deluged with questions from more media, and Congress.

They see the issue as important, and act against the victim - even

if their is little or no evidence.

 

After this, some poor bastard is fighting for his life, while the

plotters pop open a case of $1,000 a bottle champagne,

congratulating themselves for another hit against their

competitor.... And, more checks are written.

 

Against Clark, the " quackbuster " claims were so ridiculous, and so

juvenile, that a simple meeting, or two, with FTC solved many of the

issues. It helped that Chiropractor Tedd Koren, through his

Washington attorney Jim Turner, had so forcefully eliminated Stephen

Barrett's personal contact's influence at FTC not long before the

Clark case came up.

 

But, even better was the so-called " witnesses " that FTC had

assembled, clearly on the recommendation of the " quackbuster "

conspiracy. The were LAUGHABLE. One of them even fled the scene

before he could be deposed.

 

But my all time favorite was the antics, in this case, of one of the

quackpot's top attorneys - Christopher Grell. Grell had bragged,

during Court ordered proceedings, that he was writing letters to the

FTC. Later, he complained that the FTC wasn't doing anything about

his complaints.

 

Grell, you may remember, is the one who brought the original action

against Hulda Clark, allegedly on behalf of his clients, the

Figueroas. Stephen Barrett, and his parrots, made a big deal about

this case. After a period of time the Figueroas fired Grell - right

after they were required to be deposed about their claims. Then

Grell sued Hulda Clark personally, claiming that she had hired me

(Tim Bolen) to defame him (insert guffaw here).

 

In the end...

 

The FTC, early in the case, offered to settle. My thinking is that

soon after the original case was filed that FTC began to get a

whiff of the " quackbuster " stink in the case, and decided to take a

hard look at the information, and the information sources, they had

been led to believe had substance.

 

Amrein's attorney, Carlos Negrete, who loves courtroom battles,

listened to what the FTC offered in settlement, and negotiated a

mutual agreement FAR from the FTC's original desires in the case.

 

Basically, the FTC declined to press the case, and declined finding

of any fault by Amrein, et al, in exchange for a separation of

website information, some different disclaimers, a money-back

guarantee, and a monitoring system in place for a period of time.

 

The important part - the website, and its sales operation is

vibrantly in business. I don't think the " quackbusters, " are all

that welcome in the halls, and conference rooms, at FTC any more.

 

Why did this particular quackbuster attack fail?

 

For two reasons (1) Because they're just not that good at this kind

of thing anymore. (2) They can't work under bright lights, and

bright lights they got.

 

Stay tuned...

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about the

battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is

an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a

subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that

organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all

health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for

consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the

ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by

members of the " Health Freedom Movement " against the " quackbusters "

It details " who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are

operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it

is to beat them... "

 

For background information on the " Battle between Health and

Medicine " go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of

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http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

 

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