Subject: Quackpot Menace Clubbed in Canada: Ontario Health Freedom
Legislation Passes
From: "International Advocates for Health Freedom"
Read Tim Bolen's article below about the recent health freedom legislation
that just passed in Ontario, Canada, home of supposed "Quackbuster" Terry
Polevoy.
I am sending Bolen's article to Polevoy (see his anti alternative medicine
website at http://www.healthwatcher.net/ ) and to de licensed physician
Stephen Barrett, another alleged "quackbuster" http://www.quackwatch.com/ to
see if either of them have anything to say whatsoever about this most
interesting situation.
I agree with Bolen's contention that Polevoy has been an invaluable help
(albeit indirectly) towards the passage of the Canadian legislation, which
is patterned after almost identical legislation that has passed in several
US States which protects alternative practitioners from attacks by their
state medical board (and now in Ontario from the Canadian College of
Physicians and Surgeons) in the absence of demonstrable proof of harm to a
patient.
Given this massive setback for Polevoy, IAHF shares Bolen's question: Does
Barrett still maintain faith in this guy to be heir to the so called
quackbustin' throne when he goes into retirement? If so, IAHF does indeed
feel a measure of real joy at the prospect of it, and sincerely wishes that
Polevoy would only just move to a few more Canadian provinces, as well as
back down to the states, but we only wish for him to live in states where
health freedom legislation has not yet passed, as we feel his presence, his
vitriolic attacks against alternative medicine would only continue to help
us, just as it has in Ontario!
So.... thank you Terry! You are indeed our good friend. Never thought I'd
feel compelled to tell you so, but I do. Please continue making your
unfounded attacks against us, because for every action, there is an exact
and opposite reaction.
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From: "Tim & Jan Bolen"
To: "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters"
Subject: "Quackpot Menace" CLUBBED in Canada...
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:55:52 -0800
Opinion by Tim Bolen
Stephen Barrett (www.quackwatch.com) may want to re-think his personal
choice to succeed him on the North American "quackbuster" throne.
His heir-apparent, US draft dodger turned Canadian, Terry Polevoy MD
(www.healthwatcher.net), the pimple doctor making claims as an "altenative
medicine critic" (sarcasm intended), has "blown it" big time in Canada's
Ontario Province.
Polevoy, who operates Canada's version of Barrett's "quackwatch.com," a
propaganda website aimed at discrediting leading-edge health practitioners,
and health philosophies Barrett doesn't agree with, was dealt the biggest
blow the "quackbuster conspiracy" has ever been given. Barrett, and his
minions, label leading edge health professionals "quacks."
The Ontario government, in an official action, has formally declared the
quackbuster philosophy as "bunk." Ontario holds one-third of Canada's entire
population.
Polevoy's website, "healthwatcher.com" is even more strident than Barrett's
in its efforts to discredit and belittle health humanitarians who embrace
natural approaches to health.
The "quackbuster" organization, is sort of an organized idiocy, an attempt
to legitimize medical backwardness. It is epitomized by the writings of
"chief quackpot" Stephen Barrett. The government of New Zealand officially
labeled Barrett's writings as "propaganda, and of no evidentiary value."
Health leaders call Barrett, and company, "quackpots," and their
organization "The Quackpot Menace."
Both Barrett and Polevoy have been besieged with problems of late. Draft
dodging Polevoy was under investigation by the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario over charges filed against him raising issueS of
professional misconduct due to his website activities, and his "stalking" of
Canadian Radio personality Christine McPhee, and other females.
Barrett's credibility has suffered a major downturn when certain facts were
brought to light about his alleged qualifications. It turns out that Barrett
has been de-licensed, and has not had a license to practice medicine in any
State since 1993. Also, Barrett made claims to being "a retired
Psychiatrist,' without benefit of ever having been board certified as a
Pyschiatrist in the first place.