Author: Tim Bolen

The Six Components of the 2008 Quackbuster Operation…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

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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. Continue reading The Six Components of the 2008 Quackbuster Operation…

Quackbuster Attack on NICO Flops…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

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I’ve discovered another quackbuster scam – one to destroy a whole group of US Dentists, the head of a major Dental School, a device manufacturer, and a major emerging dental issue – NICO, and, with some very good help, I’ve begun the process of breaking up the scam.  I’ve helped engineer the destruction of about half of the scam already, and the rest is in the works.  We should be finished after a court trial, I’ll tell you about shortly,  in April.  With luck, we’ll get the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office involved in the clean-up.

 

Continue reading Quackbuster Attack on NICO Flops…

Court Demands Quackbusters Pay $491k – Two Pay, One Doesn’t …

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Way back in the year 2001, when Quackbusters Stephen Barrett, Terry Polevoy, and their attorney Christopher Grell decided to file their cockamamie lawsuit (Barrett v. Clark) in Oakland, CA Superior Court, they brandished it on the internet as their crowning activity.  Little did they know, then, that it would NOT be just one more stumbling, bumbling, fumbling, act, typical of their machinations.

In fact, this lawsuit would lead them to laughable internet infamy, drawing the wrath of virtually every internet giant, worldwide, in opposition to their goals.   Nor did they deduce, then, that filing a false claim in California, called a SLAPP suit, would gain them the wrath of the California legislature.  But it did. Continue reading Court Demands Quackbusters Pay $491k – Two Pay, One Doesn’t …

Ilena Rosenthal to Seize Quackwatch?

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

Time is running out for Stephen Barrett (quackwatch.com) and Terry Polevoy  (Canada’s low-budget, with garish colors, version of Barrett).  They’ve got until about June 3rd, 2007 to come up with $433,715.93 in bonds – $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barrett and Polevoy, and hand them to the Judge in an Alameda County, California Courthouse.  Or else. Continue reading Ilena Rosenthal to Seize Quackwatch?

Gerson Documentary Humiliates “Quackbusters”…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

I almost spilled my cup of jasmine tea,  I was laughing so hard.

I had just been viewing the first part of a DVD video documentary called “Dying to Have Known,” and  I had to stop the thing right there, and rewind, to see if what I had just seen really had happened.

Yup, it did.  So I stopped it again, went and got my wife Jan and said “You’ve got to come and watch this.”  It’s worth re-playing again and again. Continue reading Gerson Documentary Humiliates “Quackbusters”…

The US is the Worst Place in the World to Get Cancer Treatment…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

Everyone “in the know” knows that if they, or a loved one, gets diagnosed with Cancer, that it’s time to get their Passport out of the safety deposit box, and start checking with those who keep track, to find out just exactly where to go, right now, for the best Cancer cure.  For, if you stay in the US, and take the conventional variety of Cancer treatment, your chances of survival are slim to none.

The conventional US Cancer community is a murderous rip-off that generates shiploads of money.  It provides the most horrible death imaginable, with the most suffering, the least hope, and the highest price paid.  Europe, Asia, Mexico, the Islands, Central America all offer solutions that work.  Continue reading The US is the Worst Place in the World to Get Cancer Treatment…

Does Aspartame multiply female MS? – New Study Report at Neurology Conference..

By:  Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder – Mission Possible International

 

About 400,000 people in the US are victims of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a horrible autoimmune disease that devastates the central nervous system.

At the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting, Dr. Gary Cutter, professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama, said women are now four times as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis: “It started at two-to-one and is now four-to-one.”  Researchers found the ratio of women-to-men is increasing by about 50 percent each decade. Continue reading Does Aspartame multiply female MS? – New Study Report at Neurology Conference..

Court Orders Quackbusters Barrett and Polevoy to Post $433,715.93 Bond…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

The “quackbuster” organization is learning a very HARD lesson about the reality of the US legal system.  And, I’m very pleased.

They’re learning, in the most humiliating, and financially devastating way, that US Courts don’t want the system abused to harass those that the“quackbusters” don’t like.

In the Barrett v. Clark case, today, an order was issued for Plaintiffs Terry Polevoy MD, and Stephen Barrett MD, to come up with a grand total of $433,715.93 in bonds – $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barrett and Polevoy – within thirty days. Barrett runs the questionable website “quackwatch.com.”  Polevoy is kind of the Canadian low-budget copy of Barrett, with garish colors. Continue reading Court Orders Quackbusters Barrett and Polevoy to Post $433,715.93 Bond…

US Supreme Court Upholds “Ongom;” Quackbuster “Plan of ’96” Foiled…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

The New York ad agency that actually runs the US “quackbuster” operation has to be, this week, taking extra blood-pressure medication, avoiding telephone calls from angry clients demanding to know why the “Plan of ’96” isn’t going to work as promised, anymore. Continue reading US Supreme Court Upholds “Ongom;” Quackbuster “Plan of ’96” Foiled…

Pennsylvania Dental Board Approves Cavitat Device, NICO – Dumps Quackbusters…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

Public agencies have relied on the “quackbuster” operation for expertise in health care issues far too long.  The time when an agency could fly some“quackbuster” bozo in for a hearing, have them testify to nonsense for a few hours, and stuff them back on a plane, fat check in hand, with the sure knowledge they had a “win” is long gone.  The State of Pennsylvania Chief Counsel’s office and the Pennsylvania Dental Board found that out the hard way, over almost a three year period, in the “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Stephen R. Evans, DDS” case. Continue reading Pennsylvania Dental Board Approves Cavitat Device, NICO – Dumps Quackbusters…

Quackbuster Assaults:  Clark, the One that Worked in Reverse… 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

The US “quackbuster” operation, suffers humiliation almost daily these days.  When you listen to their leadership discuss this problem they inevitably blame one person for their woes – scientist, and author, Hulda Regehr Clark PhD.

76 year-old Clark, an independent scientific researcher and author of six best-selling books on health care and what’s wrong with it, is clearly the most hated person in quackbusterland.  Why?  Is it because they can’t beat her down, can’t stop the sale of her books, can’t have her imprisoned, can’t destroy her reputation, can’t frighten her into submission, and can’t destroy her work through innuendo and smear tactics?  Continue reading Quackbuster Assaults:  Clark, the One that Worked in Reverse… 

Quackbuster Attorney “Suffers the Consequences”…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

The US “quackbuster” operation, perhaps one of the slimiest groups on Planet Earth, sank to a new low this last few weeks when they, apparently, abandoned their own attorney, Christopher Grell, leaving him, perhaps, in financial, and professional ruin.

Hundreds of pages of Court documents show the depth of Grell’s desperation.

This coming Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, at 2:00PM, a hearing will be held in Oakland Superior Court in California to determine Grell’s ability to pay the costs of his, and two“quackbuster” manipulators, delicensed MD Stephen Barrett, and Canadian pimple doctor Terry Polevoy’s failed courtroom assault.  Court documents indicate that neither Barrett nor Polevoy, outspoken throughout the case, are willing to pay their share of the Court imposed costs.  My estimates show that the trio might have to pay out about $200,000 in legal fees to their victim/Defendant Ilena Rosenthal and her legal team. Continue reading Quackbuster Attorney “Suffers the Consequences”…

FDA “Backs Down(?)” Over Deadly Mercury Amalgams…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

 

One of the biggest scandals in American health care is coming to a head this March 27th, 2007.  In the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a case, called “Moms Against Mercury, et al., v. FDA” will get its time in the sunlight, and the Defendant, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) isn’t doing well in its Defense.

The case is simple.  Citizens are suing the FDA for NOT, during the last THIRTY YEARS, ruling on the safety, or danger, of mercury amalgam tooth fillings.  The Plaintiffs want mercury amalgam tooth fillings banned completely, and forever.

And, the FDA has virtually no defense... Continue reading FDA “Backs Down(?)” Over Deadly Mercury Amalgams…

Victory Bells to RING at Health Freedom Expo Long Beach…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

 

The North American Health Freedom Movement (NAHFM) is charging through health care issues like General Dwight David Eisenhower smashed through Europe after D-Day on June 6th, 1944.

All over the United States, and Canada, health freedom assault armies are ripping the existing health systems to rags, and demanding REAL health care NOW.  Ten US Senators, last week, sent a letter to President George W. Bush, demanding change RIGHT NOW – and Bush responded pretty much by saying “sounds good to me – let’s do it.” Continue reading Victory Bells to RING at Health Freedom Expo Long Beach…

Courts Seize “Quackbuster” Bank Accounts, Property…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

 

A few days ago, Christopher Grell, one of the Plaintiffs, and the attorney for the Plaintiffs Stephen Barrett  and Terry Polevoy , filed an emergency Ex Parte Motion with the Alameda, California Trial Court in the Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case asking for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Defendant Rosenthal from collecting attorney fees awarded to Rosenthal by the Courts.  The Court denied the Motion,  and “collection” has begun in earnest. Continue reading Courts Seize “Quackbuster” Bank Accounts, Property…

Ten US Senators say:  “We want to fix health care NOW…”

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

 

Ten US Senators, two days ago, wrote a bi-partisan letter to President George W. Bush saying:

“Each of us believes our current health system needs to be fixed now. Further delay is unacceptable as costs continue to skyrocket, our population ages, and chronic illness increases. In addition, our businesses are at a severe disadvantage when their competitors in the global market get health care for “free.”” Continue reading Ten US Senators say:  “We want to fix health care NOW…”

Why is the US Health Care System Failing? – Incompetent Management at DHHS…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

February 13th, 2007

Nobody even tries to hide the fact that the US Health Care System is broken beyond repair. 

There is a lot of finger-pointing going on, as well there should be.  The US health care system costs too much, it’s the top three killers of Americans, and Americans don’t trust it.  It simply doesn’t work.

Who’s fault is this?  Blame lies solidly with the management of the US Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS).  Current management is incapable of dealing with health care problems.  It has set up a US Health Care system that doesn’t work, and has no chance of ever working. Continue reading Why is the US Health Care System Failing? – Incompetent Management at DHHS…

Quackwatch “Defamation” Verdicts Could Reach Many Tens of Millions of US Dollars…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

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Delicensed MD Stephen Barrett, of quackwatch.com infamy, announced to his followers (Barrett’s Parrots) last week that: “During the next few days, my sites will be changing servers. It’s possible that the healthfraud list will be disrupted during the switch.”

Barrett critics are concerned about this situation – for several reasons.  The questions are: (1)  Is Barrett moving his quackwatch.com, etc., servers out of reach of the US Court System after recent Courtroom losses?   (2) Is Barrett moving his quackwatch.com, etc., servers out of reach of the US Court System after the  barrage of newly files legal actions naming him, and his, as the Defendants? (3)   Is Barrett moving his servers out of US Court Jurisdiction to avoid answering legal demands for “discovery” of information on his websites? Continue reading Quackwatch “Defamation” Verdicts Could Reach Many Tens of Millions of US Dollars…

Anti-Quackwatch “Defamation” Litigation ROARS Forward…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

 

It’s not easy, these days, being a “quackbuster.”   What with the (1) public humiliation surrounding recent High Court decisions (2)  rejection by the US Court System of “quackbuster” “expert witnesses,” (3)  pointed questioning of “quackbuster” credentials  (3) internet, and other successful public challenges, of the quacker’s activities, and much more, the “quackbusters”  have really fallen on hard times. Continue reading Anti-Quackwatch “Defamation” Litigation ROARS Forward…

Quackbusters “On the Ropes?”…

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen

 

Top “quackbuster”  Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS PhD was forcibly removed as a witness in a California case recently after it was pointed out to the State of California that Baratz was a not quite what he claims to be.  Cases all over the United States, originally initiated by “quackbusters” , are being dropped by State agencies – like hot potatoes.  Continue reading Quackbusters “On the Ropes?”…