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Who are these So-called QUACKBUSTERS - Part II
http://www.quackpo****ch.org/Wiscons...e_these_so.htm
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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