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Opinion by Consumer Advocate _Tim Bolen_

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Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Do not, for even a second, think that the US " Quackbuster " operation, a plot

to stop anyone, and everyone, from changing the broken US health care

system, is run, or even maintained, by delicensed MD Stephen Barrett out of his

2421 West Greenleaf Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania address, or his condo at

287 Stoneview, Pittsboro, North Carolina. It would be foolish to assume that

this bitter, nasty, old man, who stumbles through life, tripping from one

professional failure to another, is running a cleverly set up plot. He's just

the " front man. " The one they want you to focus on. He's ill. He'll die

soon, and someone else will take his place as the frontispiece.

So, who really is running it? And why? And, how is it being done? Keep

reading, and all will be revealed.

SUMMARY:

The 2008 Quackbuster operation is involved in “info wars†on the

internet. It is a public relations " black-ops, " run out of a New York

misinformation

agency. It has six components designed to do two things: (1) provide false

and misleading negative healthcare information, primarily through the

internet, to (a) the general public, and (b) employees of health insurance

companies, medical malpractice insurance companies, health agencies, County,

State,

and Federal enforcement agencies about those trying to fix/change the health

care system, and people, therapies, products, etc., that compete with the

current status quo, and (2) block, or diminish sources of substantial

information about positive aspects of those people, therapies, products, etc,

that

compete with the status quo.

The plot is pervasive, well funded, and well run. And, it's time to break

it up. This article will give you the information on how it works, and tips

on how to stop it from affecting YOU and your interests.

The New York agency's intent is to not just defame, but to make that

defamation, through organization, appear at the top of the search engines like

google. Below, I’ll show you how they do that. They have organized to

manipulate the online encyclopedia Wikipedia information about health care.

They

also, through people trained in disruption, troll Usenet (google) discussion

groups, badmouthing advanced health care, regularly.

I emphasize that all of this attack is “organizedâ€â€¦ and can be traced

back

to the same people – about five, or six, of them.

In other words, it is not just about Quackwatch. Worldwide, there are four

major “quackbuster†centers: the US, Denmark, Canada, and Australia. In

the

US we are familiar with Barrett, Baratz, etc. In Australia we have “ratbags,

†Peter Bowditch. In Canada we have Terry Polevoy. In Denmark we have

Paul Lee PT (quackfiles).

The up-and-comer in all this is Paul Lee PT from Denmark, for it is he who

manages both the Wikipedia information manipulation system, and the search

engine top ranking system I’ll describe below. Although, the TWO systems, in

place, give the quackbuster operation “info wars†advantage they also,

because

of how, and where, they did it, bring Lee, Polevoy and Bowditch, and all of

the foreign operations under the jurisdiction of the US Court system. In

other words - they made a big mistake, in their eagerness to corrupt.

Why? Because Wikipedia is based in Florida. The search engine placement

system they use, called “webring†is based in Ashland, Oregon. Since they

do

business with these US companies, they are subject to be sued for their

activities in this country.

THE COMPONENTS:

(1) The Quackbuster Communication Network has five parts:

(a) The Consumer Health Digest is a newsletter with mailing list of over

twelve thousand names. The newsletter is sent out weekly to the mailing list.

The list is made up of lower and middle level employees of county, state,

and federal health administration and enforcement agencies, and employees of

health insurance and medical malpractice insurance company employees. The

so-called " Digest " is a simple tool to do two things: (1) propagandize those

lower level employees into believing that the targets of the so-called articles

are " bad people, " criminals, doubtfuls, etc., and (2) convince those

employees that they should devote time to investigating, prosecuting, or, at

the

very least, watching, the targets constantly.

If you, or yours, are the subject of any article on this newsletter -

beware, for the readers of these articles are not the brightest people in the

world, and would tend to believe what they read.

(b) The Health Fraud Discussion Group has two functions: (1) People

making inquiries of information on " quackwatch.org " are " invited " to ask

questions on this discussion group where, supposedly, " experts " will give the

inquirer more information. Those " experts " are just more quackbuster

operatives

relaying more of the same lies and misinformation. (2) The discussion group

provides a format for the quackbusters to showcase subjects, or people they

want to defame or deride.

© The Skeptics Discussion Group is simply a means for the quackbuster

propaganda system to tie into the worldwide " Skeptic " organization by trying to

interest the Skeptic movement in being super-critical of the issues the

quackbusters promote. Frankly, I don't know how well this works, or doesn't

work,

for them, because the involved so-called " skeptics " I see publicly are, for

the most part, dolts - pseudo-skeptics operating in a pseudo-intellectual

mode, trying to impress others with their claims to Mensa status - and not

doing

very well at it.

(d) The James Randi Discussion Group is an odd thing. James Randi, who

bills himself as " The Amazing Randi, " is, it appears, a fifth-rate magician who

seems to play the Motel-6 Lounge Circuit in the US. He gets himself on

television promoting various " doubts " about various things. Randi is not very

impressive, and when you batch that together with his gargantuan ego, and his

pompous presentations, you get just about what you would expect.

(e) SSR.com is the lair of Scott Ballantyne and the ScottSoft Research

group out of New York City. SSR.com is the HOST for all of the above.

Ballantyne

is a relative unknown, and there is no obvious reason apparent why

Ballantyne provides expertise, time, and labor to host, and manage, the four

activities above. I suspect he is funded directly out of the New York

misinformation

agency.

Note - for those of you who wish to subpoena information (and you should)

from SSR.com (Ballantyne), about the activities of these entities above in

regards to individual clients, contact me, and I'll provide the data you need

for

subpoenas - and more. Ballantyne, I think, is in a panic (and he should

be), lately, for he destroyed all of the archives of the Health Fraud

Discussion Group, as he says, " for legal reasons. "

(2) The Quackbuster manipulation of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia:

Wikipedia is an odd thing. It is made up of a so-called " volunteer system. "

Several years ago, a team of quackbusters infiltrated various levels of

the Wikipedia operation, and are now entrenched in the middle, and lower, level

volunteer management system. If you try and put any positive information

about advanced medicine, or the problems of US health care, on Wikipedia, or

change false or misleading information the quackbusters have installed, you

will fail. You will be blocked from further " editing " and the pages of

Wikipedia will now carry information about what a " terrible person you are. "

The

only way to have ANY influence over what Wikipedia says about subject is to

approach them with a legal threat letter at the highest levels. Nothing else

works. Even that has problems, for Wikipedia management operates on a

financial shoestring, and apparently has no ability to police its own

encyclopedia.

Unfortunately, people use the encyclopedia - and they get very bad

information about health care.

Below is a paragraph from the editor’s section of Wikipedia. The editor,

here, is discussing the problem of the quackbuster slime, acting to control the

information flow on Wikipedia - and what to do about it. so you understand

the abbreviation POV stand for Point of View, and NPOV stands for No Point of

View, which Wikipedia wants. The part in red is for emphasis. Read this:

I guess it depends on what purpose the External Links section serves. Do the

links have to serve the NPOV interests of the article or can the links

section be a place where specific points-of-view can have a chance to be

expressed? As it is now, the chiropractic link section is broken down into

Advocacy

and Critiques. I think that this warns the researcher that they are leaving

the NPOV environment that Wikipedia tries to provide and will be entering a POV

external site.

If these links are truly just linking to the page for marketing reasons and

don't serve a primary function of adding to the knowledge-base, I would then

say to axe them. I haven't checked every critical link, but they do seem to

link to essays or research on pages that don't directly try to sell you

anything (other than their POV). If they are all offering the same POV with no

really distinguishing differences, then they should be reduced in number.

The soapbox point is interesting. These are external links so it would seem

that Wikipedia is not being directly exploited as a soapbox. However, the

abundance of critical links could be seen as an attempt to present bias...

using the amount of negative criticisms to invoke a negative POV about

chiropractic. My solution up until now has been to add to the advocacy links to

balance

out the criticism. You can certainly try to delete the critical links and

claim NPOV but I can almost guarantee you that you be quickly (and improperly)

accused of " vandalism " by one of three specific chiroskeptics who police the

chiropractic page all day long as far as I can tell. They love to throw

" vandalism " accusations around - and usually are vastly overstating the matter.

That being said, I have suggested a " disarming " strategy, where both sides

would remove links in a balanced way, but my suggestion was met with silence.

Now as far as the link farming goes. Yes, virtually all of the critical

sites are linked together through the SkepticRing, Anti-Quackery Ring,

Chiropractic Subluxated Ring and other ways fashioned specifically for the

purpose of

boosting Search Engine ranking. A lot of those sites are operated by Stephen

Barrett and his buddy Sammy Homola - Chirobase.org, Quackwatch.org, and

NCAHF. They're three organizations all saying the same thing. What's really

slimy

is that they state opinions then reference their sister-sites support to that

opinion. A lot of the links are operated or moderated by _Fyslee_

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fyslee) (one of the three chiroskepics

users who

regularly accuse people of vandalism for removing links to his sites). Check

out his userpage to see which sites he operates and moderates for. These

chiroskepitics are working together to actively employ search engine tricks

such as

artifically boosting Google ranking by adding external links to their sites

all over Wikipedia. I have documented this. Their goal is for a researcher

curious about chiropractic to encounter their anti-chiropractic sites first on

a Google search. Given these organizations' objective, I can certainly

understand why they would want to do this. Unfortunately, the tactics that they

employ are objectionable to both Google and Wikipedia. Hopefully these

organizations will get wise to the chiroskeptic ring and ban their sites.

I'm not sure what to do in the meantime. One thing that I would like to

suggest is that a website is linked to only once in the external links section.

As it is now, they are linking to Chirobase and NCAHF several times throughout

the article and in the external links section. Talk about boosting external

link popularity!

I think that if you showed that some of these links are not providing

anything new and are just marketing tools, you should be able to justify

deleting

them on the discussion page... just prepare yourself for an attack and false

accusations. If you can handle all of that with a cool head, I say, " Be bold

with your edits! "

I welcome your continued participation on the Chirorpactic and

chiropractic-related articles. I think that you have a lot of great insight to

offer

Wikipedia and you seem to have a vary good graspe on Wikipedia's guidelines. I

look forward to your future edits and discussions.

As a side note, I think the reason the chiroskeptics are " shouting " so loud

is that they are realizing that nobody is listening to them. Chiropractic is

growing faster than ever and more and more patients are receiving the

benefits everyday. _Levine2112_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Levine2112)

00:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Note - for those of you who wish to subpoena information (and you should)

from Wikipedia, about the activities of these entities above in regards to

individual clients, contact me, and I'll provide the data you need for

lawsuits,

subpoenas, cease and desist letters - and more. Wikipedia is already on

notice about the problem. Frankly, their system is goofy, and I can see how

they got manipulated. The articles in the media criticizing Wikipedia are on

target, and there needs to be more of them. Wikipedia deserves the criticism.

(3) The Quackbuster manipulation of internet search engines (Google, ,

etc.):

Ever wonder how the crap quackbusters spew about people, therapies, or

products they don't like appears FIRST on the internet search engines? I'm

about

to tell you how they do that, how to stop it, and how to sue them

individually, and together, for having done it. You're going to love this.

There is, on the internet, a whole industry surrounding the idea of getting

YOUR information on the first page of search engines like Google. The

quackbuster operation uses a company to get their defamation, and false and

misleading information on the first page, and the first several pages, of a

search

engine. If you are a target of theirs, you need to know this, and how it

works.

How do they manipulate search engine placement? They use the services of a

company called Webring which, for a fee, ties their webring together in such

a way as to give each and every of theirr websites top google placement. The

Anti-Quackery webring has 85 websites banded together. Their Skeptic

webring has 150 websites. Their Chiropractic Subluxation webring has about

five

websites. They all work together.

Here is how the company Webring explains their service:

WebRing offers a unique and effective means of searching, locating and

navigating between web sites with similar themes. WebRing allows web site

owners

to group their sites together into ring communities, and provides a navigation

tool that links web sites together called a NavBar. Linked sites not only

eliminate the necessity of repetitive searches, but the NavBar also accumulates

hits from all of the sites so that a hit to one site is a hit to all sites.

Additionally, the NavBar acts as a link so your web site is linked to every

other site in the community. So now your site is benefiting from higher

search engine results because it has more hits and more links.

I’m going to give you a short tour of how it works by having you click on a

URL. This will take you to a page on the Webring website reserved for the “

Anti-quackery webring†manipulated by Paul Lee PT. When you scroll down to

see the list of the 85 members, you will notice that there are but a few major

websites. Most of them are one-page “made up†stuff. Go here:

_http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=antiquackerysite_

(http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=antiquackerysite)

Note - for those of you who wish to subpoena information (and you should)

from webring.com about the activities of these entities above in regards to

individual clients, contact me, and I'll provide the data you need for

subpoenas

- and more. But, for sure, subpoena all personal, and business,

information gathered by Webring for each and every member, and ringmaster, of

the “

Anti-quackery webring,†the “Skeptic webring,†the “Anti-quackery

links,†and

the “Chiropractic is Subluxated†webring.

(4) The Quackbuster infiltration of (Usenet) Internet AltMed Discussion

Groups:

Ilena Rosenthal, the head of the anti silicone breast implant Humantics

Foundation has been a victim of the New York agency's campaign for years. How

has she been victimized? Two ways. (1) First, she's a target by an

organized group that seeks to deride her, personally, so as to nullify her

efforts to

show the severe health problems of silicone breast implants. The New York

agency's tactic is to attack her in the internet discussion groups. Their

favorite internet tactic is claim that this happily married woman has constant

sex with huge numbers of men, and animals. They get away with this, for the

most part, because they use " fake " internet IDs, difficult to trace, and

because those who are known live outside the US, and they know Rosenthal does

not

have the money to sue them in several different foreign countries

simultaneously. (2) Stephen Barrett of quackwatch.com, and Terry Polevoy from

Canada

filed a false lawsuit against her - and, even though the lawsuit rebounded

against them, and they had to pay her attorney fees of over $500,000, the

fight took its toll.

The New York based group invades every internet discussion group it can

find, and using similar tactics to those used against Rosenthal, derides and

defames those trying to upgrade the health system. There are not that many of

them, and we can now identify who most of them are, and who they work for.

Note - for those of you who wish to subpoena information (and you should)

from discussion group files, and hosting companies, about the activities of

these entities above in regards to individual clients, contact me, and I'll

provide the data you need for subpoenas - and more.

(5) Blacklisting certain health practitioners:

In the early 1990s, now deceased John Renner MD, then president of the

infamous National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) had put together a

" blacklist " of health professionals which he was distributing to Health

Insurance

companies and State licensing Boards. There were about 2500 names on that list

at the time. The idea of the secret list was to, obviously, damage these

health professionals behind the scenes without those professionals knowing

about the attack. Renner, I think, was trying for secrecy so he wouldn't get

his

ass sued off. The list did make an appearance, though, and Renner, and his

minions began to have trouble.

Then, a second list appeared, this time assembled, and marketed, by an

attorney named Grace Powers Monaco who had started a company called Emprise,

which

received some of its funding from a $500k annual grant from the National

Institute for Health (NIH). Emprise was killed after two things happened -

(1)

a group called " Act UP " went after their funding, and (2) Emprise got

named in a RICO suit in Texas. NIH, among other things, pulled their funding.

So, what happened to the secret list? Do you think the New York agency just

dropped that idea? Of course not.

I know where the list is, and how its being used today, and who's doing it.

There are over 40,000 names on that list now, probably the names of health

professionals who have side-stepped away from the drugs, drugs, and more drugs

paradigm, and use successful methods on their patients.

The list is part of a " clearing house " operation used by insurance companies

to make decisions about payment. When either a practitioner, or a patient,

files a claim for insurance benefits, the data is fed into a computer which

then checks the name of the practitioner involved in the transaction. If the

name of the practitioner is on the 40,000 list, the claim is re-routed

through the " fraud unit " of the insurance billing system, who then handles the

claim as though it were fraudulent. From there, it gets bundled with other

claims having gone the same route, and goes to a special unit that has

connections to the Federal Health Fraud Task Force. Soon, the practitioner

gets a

visit, not just from a Federal Investigator, but a State Licensing Board

Investigator. Why? What has the practitioner done wrong? Nothing, of course.

Someone just put him or her on the secret list so that they would be the

subject

of intense suspicion and scrutiny, constantly.

As I said above, I know how its being done, and by whom. But, I don't have

enough information to, yet, prove it in Court. What I need is a related

Federal Court case with subpoena power available. If someone has that, I can

provide the information on who, what, where, and why, certain things need to be

subpoenaed. Why " Federal? " Because the operation is spread over several

States.

(6) Blocking health information from the internet

Having trouble finding legitimate research papers that back up the science

of advanced health care? Of course you are. There is a systematic attempt to

make those kinds of scientific research NOT available on the internet. I'm

not going into detail here, for the investigation of how this works, AND

WHO, SPECIFICALLY, is behind it is ongoing. But, it is happening.

MORE:

There is an awful lot of money and power playing in the US healthcare system

stakes. The system is badly broken, and there are those who want to keep it

that way because, simply, the money flow is tremendous, and a healthy

American public is not in the interests of big pharma, and other multi-national

groups. Alert, healthy people tend to make reasonable demands of their

government.

Our US health care system is broken, and there is a misinformation group,

based in New York City, that for a price, will attack anyone, or any company,

or group that exist. Just write the checks, and they'll begin. Their

customer list is impressive.

Stay tuned...

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

 

 

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