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Who are these So-called QUACKBUSTERS - Part II



 
 
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Old November 7th, 2003, 05:24 AM
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Default Who are these So-called QUACKBUSTERS - Part II

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WHO THE PLAYERS ARE...

I believe the primary player in this scam is the Board, management,
and staff of the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards). Their
website basically says "We don't know what alternative medicine is -
so we'll call it health fraud." It is they, I believe, who control
the daily operation of the plot. As you read this, at exactly this
moment, some, or all of the FSMB people, are probably on the phone,
the FAX, or the internet, organizing the persecution of some
unsuspecting leading-edge healer in North America. Ten minutes from
now, they will begin another. Then another, then another, then
another...

The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is another player.
It wants to appear to be an important wheel in health care. The
reality is different. It was rudely EVICTED from Loma Linda
University a few years ago, and after bouncing around from place to
place, has now found a home in a hair removal salon in Massachusetts,
where the NCAHF president, Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, PhD is the
"Medical Director." Hair removal?

One other player, recently fading from the scene, muscled out by
Bobbie Baratz, is Stephen Barrett MD, who the Pennsylvania licensing
board officially classifies as "Not in Good Standing," operates the
dubious website www.quackwatch.com out of his basement in Allentown,
Pennsylvania.

There are other players, but it would take to long to explain how it
works. Again, I recommend James Carter MD's SUPERB book "Racketeering
In Medicine." as a resource. Page #44 has an outline of the whole
quackbuster scam.


THE REAL PROBLEM IS...

What is the REAL problem, exactly? Generally, "we" are the problem.
"We" meaning the North American Health Freedom Movement. Specifically,
it's that "we," in the Health Freedom Movement haven't completely
countered the attack plan put into place a few years ago (1996), by
the quackbuster conspirators to destroy "Alternative Medicine." It's
time we did that. - and we can do it relatively easily.

What we have to remember is that, despite the quackbuster's best
efforts, "Alternative Medicine" is gaining, not losing, ground in
public acceptance. Americans aren't buying into the quackbuster "big
lie" propaganda program.

Since identifying a problem is half-way to solution - we're more than
half done solving this issue.


SO WHAT ABOUT THE QUACKBUSTER'S BIG PLAN?

We know that several years ago, the plan was put together, and
explained at the 1996 meeting of the FSMB, by a group of conspirators,
to use the Medical Boards, the FSMB, the Attorney Generals, certain
employees of the FTC and the FDA, and top quackbusters for the purpose
of stamping out "Alternative Medicine." Although the whole thing was
exposed in magazines like "The Townsend Letter," the plan was
activated. It is on-going now. At that time there was no
super-strong (like there is now) "Health Freedom Movement," per se -
so there was no national counter-strategy, and no counter-action.

That was THEN - this is NOW.

Now, of course, we know that when a "top quackbuster" shows up to
testify somewhere, someone is waiting with the equivalent of a factual
ball-bat - and that quackbuster is publicly exposed for the
out-of-a-job loser crackpot they really are. In other words, we've
negated an important component in their attack plan - their so-called
"experts." We're doing this to Bobbie Baratz in Wisconsin. Each time
he opens his mouth he sinks deeper into the quicksand.

Dismantling their "activated plan" is also really a simple exercise.
We simply use our size, and intelligence, advantage.

"The Plan of 1996," such as it is, was in five parts, and it had a
basic theme - Destroy Alternative Medicine by "Criminalizing" it.
Kind of like depicting Mother Theresa as "the whore of Calcutta."

Their five part plan goes like this: (1) Set up a central
propaganda center. (2) Control who gets prosecuted through the FSMB,
and medical boards. (3) Affect Medicare, and Medical Insurance
Company payment decisions (4) Use the system to harass, discourage,
and destroy Alt Med practitioners, and providers. (5) Demoralize the
opposition with the viciousness of the campaign.

"The Plan of 1996" is having a limited success, not because it's a
good plan, but because we don't do anything about it. Our reaction,
to this point, has been to put protective "Health Freedom Laws" in
place - and we are having only LIMITED success with that. We need to
change strategies slightly.


WHY IT'S SO EASY TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE...

The quackbusters, I've found, aren't individually, or in groups, that
bright. Read delicensed MD Stephen Barrett's website
www.quackwatch.com, and his resume, and you'll see what I mean - and
he's their chief propagandist. Everything he says is like he was
simply filling out a form someone, with a higher intelligence, gave
him. His mouthings are boringly the same, each and every time.

Keep in mind that Barrett, although claiming to be a retired
Psychiatrist, was never able to become "Board Certified." He failed
his test. Also, Barrett gave up his MD license in 1993. I suspect he
just couldn't keep up with new things. His employment record shows he
NEVER was able to hold a full-time job - and his claim to "Psychiatric
fame" was his part-time (4 to 8 hours a week) employment at a
Pennsylvania Mental Hospital - from 1978 through 1993. From 1976
through 1978 he COULD NOT GET a paying job.

Barrett, with his lack of basic intelligence, is getting hammered when
he shows up in a courtroom situation - and tries to inflict his weird
opinions on a Judge. And Barrett has legal problems all over the
country. Basically, I see Barrett as a loser, who couldn't make it in
the medical profession. And, Barrett is TYPICAL quackbuster
leadership.

Bobbie Baratz, the current president of the NCAHF, is laughable.
He's, almost literally, hiding under the bed, avoiding depositions
asking about his so-called "expertise." I believe he's desperate for
the "testifying" money. Baratz, who's former position at a Boston
area medical center, was terminated (and Baratz doesn't want to talk
about it), after a physical altercation with a 72 year old woman, now
operates a hair removal business. Some "expert." He also operates
the NCAHF out of that same hair removal location.

Polevoy, in Canada, is a sissy. He likes to frighten women. I think
he pees his pants when confronted by the male of the species. I'm
eager to hear his version of the story about why he isn't practicing
as a PEDIATRICIAN any more.

I see no reason to be impressed with the visible quackbuster
operation... I'm of the opinion that the original "plan" was written
by someone we haven't met yet.


SO WHY DID THEY HAVE ANY SUCCESS, AT ALL?

Because they organized, and activated, a plan... and we, in the
Health Freedom Movement, didn't react with our own plan.


HOW DOES THEIR PLAN WORK?

(1) SET UP A CENTRAL PROPAGANDA CENTER - They simply set up a series
of websites, and telephone numbers, that all of their soldiers,
government employees, and members of the public, could refer to for
information about "alternative medicine." They set up a "chat room"
to send victims to "for further information." Unsuspecting readers
have no idea that what they're reading is all lies and
misrepresentations.

(2) CONTROL WHO GETS PROSECUTED through the FSMB, and medical boards.
- Whoever designed the original plan, understood the science of
social manipulation. They understood how to use bureaucrats to their
own advantage.

Generally speaking, public employees are not the brightest stars in
the sky - they are bureaucrats. The 1970's book "The Peter Principle"
was written about them. Dr. Laurence J. Peter was the one who said
"In a bureaucracy, everyone rises to their level of incompetence."
How true.

Employees of agencies regulating health care in the United States are
no exception. The only thing you can count on when dealing with them
is (a) they are definitely bureaucrats, (b) when it comes to knowledge
of the subject they are supposed to regulate - never expect them to
know anything about what they are regulating, (c) expect pettiness,
brutality, and stupidity in their completion of their assignments. If
you keep these things in mind (and don't be shocked by the reality) -
you can deal with them - and get things done.

Yes, it's not right - but it is the way things are.

The quackbusters have been operating in the "public employee" arena
for a very long time. So, they know how to manipulate the arena to
their own advantage. Even though we, in the Health Freedom Movement,
outnumber them 100,000 to 1, they can still control who gets attacked
(prosecuted), because they've managed to infiltrate, and poison the
minds of health agency bureaucrats against "Alternative Medicine."
One of the best examples we've recently found is the "Training Manual
for Alternative Medicine Prosecutions," handed out to the gun-toting
investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC).

Investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC), are only
required to have a high school education, are not required to have any
medical training, and need only a six-week course at a community
college before they're handed their fifteen-shot Berretta nine
millimeter automatic, and their "Training Manual for Alternative
Medicine Prosecutions."

See how it works?


(3) AFFECT MEDICARE, AND MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANY DECISIONS...

Unfortunately, a large slice of the American population relies on
Medicare and Medical Insurance for their health care needs. Those
that use this combination solely - remain unhealthy, and then die.
For, as we know, Medicare, and Medical Insurance, offerings have to
have undergone an "approval process" before they can be paid for.
Which translates to the unfortunate fact that if you're relying on
what Medicare will pay for - you're relying on practices and
procedures that are at least FIFTEEN YEARS OUT OF DATE. And, in the
case of Medical Insurance - probably TEN YEARS OUT OF DATE. New
things simply aren't paid for in the Medicare and Medical Insurance
world.

The "quackbusters" formed an organization called CHIRI (Consumer
Health Information Research Institute) for the express purpose of, as
James Carter says "The CHIRI has for its constituency the health
insurance industry. It purports to serve that industry in an advisory
capacity, by approving or disapproving a particular treatment provided
by a health-care provider. It plans to serve as a health-insurance
consultant regarding the legitimacy of certain disabilities and health
practitioners. An example of an "illegal" disability would be chronic
fatigue syndrome. CHIRI is also said to have a computerized list of
more than 40,000 American physicians and other medical practitioners
who are suspected of using "questionable medical practices."

(4) USE THE SYSTEM TO HARASS, DISCOURAGE, AND DESTROY LEADING-EDGE
PRACTITIONERS AND PROVIDERS...

Taking plan sections One, Two, and Three above into consideration, you
can see what effect the combination has on leading-edge health care.
The "system" is designed to protect the status quo.

(5) DEMORALIZE THE OPPOSITION BY THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

This section is self-explanatory. One of the tactics used is to
attack health providers who have little, or no, financial resources as
brutally as possible, as publicly as possible, so that other providers
see what happens when they tell the drug salesmen to go away.


WHAT ARE THE QUACKBUSTERS UP TO RIGHT NOW....


Besides hiding under the bed? There's their Wisconsin campaign -
typically vicious, full of hatred and falsehoods, led by little Bobbie
Baratz, who isn't doing very well... We have there, an opportunity to
do the "quackbusters" serious damage. I'll tell you about it in the
next newsletter.

Coming soon...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate


 




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