Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
January 4, 2004
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle – It’s time you took a hard line with the employees at your Department of Regulation and Licensing (DRL), with an eye towards a serious house cleaning. The employees you have there simply ignore State policy, and common sense. Incompetence, ignorance, and brutality have become virtue. Continue reading An Open Letter to Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle….
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
But, he can’t say he wasn’t warned… Continue reading Quackbusters Defeated in Wisconsin – AGAIN…
The important issue in Wisconsin has always been that TWO State employees, Arthur Thexton and James Polewski, both Prosecutors at the Department of Regulation & Licensing (DRL), had openly, and brazenly, without permission or consultation with their superiors at DRL, embraced, and agreed to promote, and ENFORCED as though they had merit in law, the CRACKPOT health positions of a subversive organization calling itself the “quackbusters.”
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Polewski actually bragged of his membership in the fully courtroom-discredited National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). Thexton had actually used Robert S. Baratz, the current president of the so-called NCAHF, an organization of doubtful origin and pedigree, currently run out of Baratz’s Braintree, Massachusetts hair-removal and ear-piercing salon, as an advisor and expert witness for the State of Wisconsin, and paid him a LOT of Wisconsin money…
Wonders never cease. Continue reading The “Wisconsin Project” is NOT over…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
This important story is about how well the Australian Health Freedom Movement is organizing its campaign. In a minute I’m going to send you to read a well written article by Eve Hillary titled “Casualties of Corporate Medicine – The Jennie Burke Story.”
Eve Hillary’s article clearly, and simply, using the story of Jennie Burke, explains the political situation facing leading-edge health practitioners “Down Under.” Eve tells the story of“who, what, where, when, and how” big pharma has organized its Australian anti-health campaign. Every Health Advocate, and certainly every Health Freedom Advocate, in the world, should take a look at “the mechanism” of an organized “quackbuster” operation. The quackbuster modus operandi in Australia is atypical. What they do in Australia, is what they do everywhere. Knowing how they operate is knowing how to beat them. Continue reading Australian Health Freedom Movement Gears Up For War…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Bullying isn’t all that profitable these days. In fact, as self named “quackbusters” Stephen Barrett (quackwatch.com), and Bobbie Baratz (NCAHF.org), are finding out, it can, and will, be downright expensive…
Quackbusters like to bully people. It’s all they have. It’s the megalomaniac thing to do… Why? Facts, logic, and social reality, are not on their side, arguing the issues surrounding North America’s rush away from “conventional medicine” towards what has been called “Alternative Medicine.” Continue reading Quackbusters: “Bullys” Barrett, Baratz, Sued For 1.3 Million in Canada…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Arthur Thexton, the Wisconsin Prosecutor who was recently humiliated in the Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing (DRL) v. Kadile case, has been sued by another MD in the State of Wisconsin. When I read the NEW case, the charges against Thexton, and the surrounding documents, all of which I’m making available for you to read, I couldn’t help but shake my head in wondering.
Thexton has just finished being demolished in the Kadile case in Wisconsin, where Thexton spent $165,000 of the State’s money, falsely prosecuting Kadile, using as the accuser, case advisor, and “expert witness,” the well known crackpot Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, whose medical/dental career has sunk so low his current income source, besides testifying, is the operation of a hair removal and ear piercing salon in Braintree Massachusetts, from which address he also runs the dubious National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). Now, Thexton has moved right on to another Wisconsin State debacle. He’s apparently prosecuting an MD in a billing dispute with a health insurance company. Thexton is acting on behalf of the insurance company, and, he’s using taxpayer funds to do it. Continue reading Wisconsin Quackpot Prosecutor Sued in Fed Court…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
A CBS News “I-Team” report, titled “State Drops Case Against Alternative Medicine Doctor,” pretty well sums up the end of the quackbuster reign in Wisconsin State health politics. The TV broadcast started out to say “The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board unanimously voted by phone Friday to put an end to the state’s nine-year-old case against a Green Bay doctor.” Then it said “It’s a victory for freedom of choice, and I think it’s a victory for complimentary and alternative medicine and, quite frankly, I think it’s a victory for Dr. Kadile, personally,” Continue reading State of Wisconsin Officially Dumps Quackbusters… and Allows Chelation Therapy
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
I have a jaundiced view of the media, especially national media. I wrote about this a few months ago in article called “Big Pharma Doesn’t Own the Media…”
So when members of the Wisconsin Association for Health Freedom (WAHF) thought about approaching CBS affiliate Channel 3’s “I-Team” in Madison about the quackbuster onslaught in their State, I was supportive, but not real enthusiastic. To me, TV has a fleeting sense, and doesn’t take the time to examine an issue, unless there’s a lot of blood, a car chase, bare skin, or inter-marriage between species. There is also that segment of the media who likes “shock” and has no compunctions about charging into your life with a camera, and making you look as bad as possible for their audience. Continue reading In Wisconsin: The Exception Proves the Rule…
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In the second day of their special investigative report, CBS played the tape of little Bobbie Baratz, The PRESIDENT of the not-so-illustrious National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) crying his heart out, sniveling, and sniffling his way through testimony (and life). Thank God we had the presence of mind to tape the TV show, for the laughter was SO contagious while viewing the show, it had to be replayed several times on VHS to get the full flavor of the event. Continue reading CBS Airs “Sniveling Quackbuster” Expose’…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
I intentionally forgot to mention, in my articles about the War in Wisconsin, that CBS television was filming our every move in Madison, Wisconsin’s capitol. I also neglected to mention that CBS was traveling around the State, interviewing top AltMed leaders on camera.
Of course, I kept it to myself that CBS was carefully directed to take a HARD look at the Quackbuster operation nationwide, including the dubious National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), the questionable website www.quackwatch.com, and their relationship with two card-carrying quackbuster members employed as Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing (DRL) prosecutors, Arthur Thexton, and James Polewski.
Why did I keep this quiet? When we’ve been working on this for months? I like to surprise the quackbusters. It’s good for their psyche. Continue reading CBS Nukes Wisconsin Quackbuster Assault…
And, that’ll be FUN…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
The case is a face-off between the giant North American Health Freedom Movement and the remnants of the once-successful, but now on-the-run, self-styled “quackbuster” organization. Continue reading Wisconsin Negotiations Break Down – Trial to Resume…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
The Quackbusters would like to give us the impression that they represent American mainstream medical thinking, when in fact they do not… Continue reading AMA Bashes Quackpots…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
But the question that’s always there is “who’s winning the war – us, or them?” Continue reading Quackbuster Report Card: D(-) and Sinking Fast…
A three Judge panel of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, today, issued a decision in the “Stephen Barrett v. Owen Fonorow” case. Barrett had lost his original case against Owen in District Court and filed an appeal, apparently trying to get the Illinois Appeals Court to re-write federal law and counter a decision previously handed down by a Federal Court.
Barrett was MANGLED by the Judges. Continue reading Quackpot Barrett THRASHED in Illinois High Court…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
When they ask why I advise that course of action, I try to explain the “mental set” of the average “quackbuster,” and I suggest that they simply avoid the aggravation of dealing with a form of mental illness. For that’s what I think they’re dealing with. Continue reading A Practical Recommendation for Dealing With “Quackbusters…”
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Big pharma, worldwide, is trying to be planet earth’s lnewest despot. They almost made it. But they didn’t count on the North American Health Freedom Movement blocking their efforts to make humanity “drug-dependent” on a grand scale. They didn’t realize that Americans would see big pharma’s efforts to gouge a huge chunk out of our economy as a “criminal act.” Continue reading Big Pharma: America Strikes Back…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Last Tuesday, October 14th, 2003, the State of Wisconsin Assembly Health Committee met to discuss the entry of a consumer protection bill designed to safeguard Wisconsin consumers against out-of-control DRL prosecutors, and the “quackbuster” operation, believed to run out of a New York advertising agency. The “quackbuster” operation, records show, is believed to be funded originally by 26 drug companies who want anything that competes with drugs as treatment, defined as “health fraud.” Continue reading Wisconsin Health Activists Demand Change – Legislature Reacts…
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
On July 17th, 2003, in Madison, Wisconsin – At the end of “Day One” of the trial (cross-examination) of top “quackbuster“ Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, PhD, the Judge called in the attorneys for a short meeting. In essence he said “Enough is enough. This has gone on too long. There’s no reason to go on with this farce. I want the defense to wrap up their cross-examination by 11:00am, the prosecutor to finish re-direct by 12:00 noon, and after lunch we’re going to settle this case.” Continue reading The Battle in Wisconsin Rages On…
When the self-named “Quackbusters” stumbled around, years ago, 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.
But it gets stranger, and stranger.
In California, where wine is the State flower (not actually), we’ve got the health freedom movement attacking the “quacks,” the “real “quacks,” the ones originally described by the European health community, as those dumb enough to use mercury (a poison) as fillings for teeth. And, the self styled “quackbusters” are calling those against mercury “quacks.”
Huh?
What’s happening is that the Dental Division of the North American Health Freedom Movement is relentlessly pursuing the California Dental Association’s support of mercury as a tooth filling through the courts, now, all the way to the California Supreme Court. Read the article below by Washington DC Attorney Charlie Brown.
“CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT TO HEAR OUR CASE AGAINST C.D.A.
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MOMENTUM SHIFTS TO MERCURY-FREE MOVEMENT
September 23rd, 2003
Article by Charlie Brown
On Sept. 17, in what may be our most significant victory to date, the California Supreme Court voted 5-2 to hear our case against the California Dental Association and its notorious gag rule restricting the rights of mercury-free dentists.
The CDA will now be forced to defend its so-called rules of conduct before the nation’s most closely watched State Supreme Court. The case was summarized this way by the Los Angeles Daily Journal: to assure the public that dental amalgam is safe. But (plaintiffs) charged that the (CDA) orchestrated a campaign to prevent patients from learning about mercury toxicity in amalgam and had retaliated against dentists who issued warnings to patients.
Big pharma is in a death struggle in North America, trying to preserve its operation. It has taken years, and billions of dollars of investment, to set in place “Treatment,” not “Cure”, as the health modality of North America. There hasn’t been a “Cure” for ANYTHING in Western Medicine since polio in 1954. Big pharma doesn’t want one. “Curing” people doesn’t make any money. “Treatment” does. “Treatment” meaning treatment with drugs.
“Treatment” deals with, and masks, symptoms of a problem. “Cure” means finding the cause of the problem and removing it. Continue reading Cure vs. Treatment…