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
healthwatcher.nethealthwatcher.netOpen ↗ ) and to de licensed physician
Stephen Barrett, another alleged "quackbuster"
quackwatch.comquackwatch.comOpen ↗ 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.