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" Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter "

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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

 

Monday, October 4th, 2004

 

 

It hasn't been a good year for Big Pharma.

 

There is a concerted effort to break Big Pharma's stranglehold on

North American health care. For example, just look at all the

lawsuits aimed at that target, some filed by individuals, some by

companies, some by big " Tort " law firms, and some by government agencies.

 

That " concerted effort " is working.

 

One of the INTERESTING battles is the one between the North American

Health Freedom Movement, representing " Health, " and Big Pharma's

" quackbuster " operation, run out of a New York ad agency, representing

" Medicine. "

 

Despite their best efforts (snort) the " quackbuster " conspiracy,

recently, has stumbled, tripped, and knee-wobbled its way through an

ever increasing backlash against its project to deny North Americans

adequate health care. One of the best examples of this is the series

of mega-problems being faced by the " quackbuster's " front man, and

author of its notorious internet " bible, " (quackwatch.com) failed, and

delicensed, MD Stephen Barrett.

 

Barrett is in DEEP trouble.

 

Embroiled in lawsuits all over North America, Barrett hasn't been

having a fun time. He's been severely battered wherever he goes in

the American Court System - and the laughter follows him. Just a few

months ago, a Minnesota Judge disconnected Barrett from a telephonic

hearing after the Judge determined, using MY files, that Barrett was

not qualified to testify in the case. Barrett began to argue, and the

Judge pushed a button... Just like that, Barrett, who believes he's an

expert in all things related to health care, was summarily dismissed

(and disconnected) from the case.

 

Barrett's problems began in 1991, I believe, when P. J. (Joe) Lisa

wrote a book called " Assault on Medical Freedom, " detailing the

" quackbuster's " operation to destroy innovations in health care. This

book was soon followed by James Carter MD's authoritative

" Racketeering in Medicine. " Barrett sued Carter, and the publisher,

Hampton Roads, but the case was tossed out of court.

 

The book " Racketeering in Medicine. " is available in fine stores

everywhere. For health freedom fighters in North America, it is a

" must read. "

 

Getting to the gritty...

 

In August of this year, I stopped by a hearing in Allentown, PA to

testify in a case where Stephen Barrett was, like elsewhere, in the

North American Court System, trying to ply the idea that he is being

" conspired " against. He says I, Tim Bolen, am leading the conspiracy.

Barrett, the man who called two-time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling

a " quack, " finds it difficult to believe that a significant number of

North Americans would, independently, find his views on modern health

care " more than a little weird. "

 

Barrett, according to his testimony in that hearing, believes that a

significant number of persons on the North American continent are " out

to get him... " He claims he's so upset about this he spends ten

percent of his time worrying and thinking about this problem. He

claims he even had an automobile accident, he was so upset about this....

 

Well, maybe he is upset.

 

For at the hearing, Stephen Barrett, the man who authors

quackwatch.com, the " quackbusters bible " he, who claims that the

efforts of the health professionals responsible for more than half of

the total US health dollar are " quackery, " showed up in a hearing with

his DIRTY, GREASY, hair tufted over his ears like one of those

characters from the Star Wars series. I was in Barrett's presence for

four hours that day, and in all that time he couldn't make eye contact

with me. He knew who I was. He was told, ahead of time, I'd be

there to confront him.

 

It gets grittier...

 

One of the other things happening in that hearing was the entrance of

California Civil Litigator, and wardog, Carlos F. Negrete, taking over

the case from local counsel, opposing Barrett, and his local legal

beagle.. To be honest, I couldn't tell if Barrett was more upset over

MY being there or over Negrete taking over the case.

 

Or, maybe Barrett just naturally turns grey/green every day at 1:00 pm

- the starting time of the hearing, the exact time Carlos Negrete and

I walked in the door together.

 

Right after the hearing, Barrett and his legal counsel went into

" courtroom orbit, " trying to get Negrete removed from the case.

Barrett's legal argument, I promise, was just as good as his poorly

written (goofy) quackwatch.com diatribes against innovations in health

care. So, of course, he LOST the Motion to disqualify - and Negrete

is in the case.

 

Negrete, you may remember, has ripped Barrett to shreds in every legal

confrontation, so far. This one won't be any different.

 

So - there'll be a new chapter in the Barrett Courtroom saga, this one

involving top leaders in Chiropractic. I'm of the opinion that the

whole " quackbuster " operation sprang up right after the decision in

the Wilk v. AMA case, where the AMA was ordered to give up its

clandestine operation to destroy the science and profession of

Chiropractic.

 

Barrett has been personally targeting Tedd Koren, a Pennsylvania

Chiropractor, and President of Koren Publications, one of the largest

providers of literature to Chiropractic offices in North America.

Koren provides the controversial " anti-vaccination " brochures.

Barrett was the so-called " consultant " to the Federal Trade Commission

employee that tried to use his job to stop Koren from publishing those

brochures. That employee was stopped, and removed from his FTC

position. Almost immediately after that action, Barrett filed suit

against Koren.

 

Now, Koren has brought Negrete into the fray, and it's " Showtime in

Allentown. " Barrett's going to get publicly horse-whipped right in

his own home town. I'll see that you have a front row seat...

 

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 "

A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the

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

 

For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to

http://www.bolenreport.com.