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Re: "Quackbusting" - is a Profitable Business

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  1. And, your point is what?

    You did not even post your whining in the correct ng!!!

    C.Health said:

    http://www.quackpotwatch.org/quackpots/quackpots/barrett.htm

    "Quackbusting" - is a Profitable Business...

    Frankly, "quackbusting" is a profitable industry, and Stephen Barrett plays
    it to the hilt.

    In a Canadian lawsuit (see below) Barrett admitted to the following:

    "The sole purpose of the activities of Barrett & Baratz are to discredit and
    cause damage and harm to health care practitioners, businesses that make
    alternative health therapies or products available, and advocates of
    non-allopathic therapies and health freedom."

    Stephen Barrett testifies for money. He claims he's an "expert" in
    virtually everything. Those "expert witness" fees seem to be a significant
    part of Barrett's existence.

    In a California Court case, former Barrett peer, and fellow Board Member of
    the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), William Jarvis PhD,
    testified, under oath, that Stephen Barrett and Robert Baratz conspired to
    use the NCAHF, without Board permission, as a Plaintiff in over 40 cases in
    California, where Barrett and Baratz were to testify as "expert witnesses,"
    and get expert witness fees. The NCAHF Board was never consulted.

    However, sometimes their plans fail.

    One of those cases caused the NCAHF to be saddled with over $100,000 in
    legal fees awarded their victim - and the NCAHF doesn't have the money to
    pay that debt. In fact, the NCAHF is SO DESPERATE for funds it is being run
    out of a cardboard box in the back room of Robert Baratz's Braintree,
    Massachusetts hair removal and ear piercing salon.

    Those type of cases Barrett involved the NCAHF in were considered so heinous
    that the people of California just passed an initiative (Proposition #64)
    banning this kind of lawsuit for all time.

    Barrett's claim to be a Consumer Advocate is an insult to American
    consumers.

    Organized Stupidity is the Hallmark of the Quackbuster Conspiracy...

    Barrett, and his vacuous minions, like to spout off other stupid "rules"
    that they think should apply to health care - the application of which, has
    to make the scientific community shudder.

    There's a lot more...

    Barrett's Funding - TOP SECRET...

    Barrett was cornered in a Federal case in the State of Oregon not long ago,
    and asked about his income. He testified that over the past two years he
    made a TOTAL of $54,000.

    How then does he afford to carry on fourteen (14) separate legal actions at
    one time?

    If each legal action cost him $100,000, that would come to 1.4 million
    dollars ($1,400,000).

    How do you squeeze 1.4 million out of a $54,000 total income?

    Good question...

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