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Titolo: Chi è Stephen Barrett? Una visione "alternativa"

Vi sottometto un articolo su Stephen Barrett, un personaggio tirato
in ballo da Lorenzo in un un paio di thread recenti.
L'articolo è scritto da Tim Bolen, che è un avvocato che si batte
per i diritti dei consumatori soprattutto per quanto riguarda gli
aspetti legati alla salute.
Rispetto all'immagine dell'eroe impavido alla caccia dei fraudolenti
l'immagine che ne esce è quella di un'organizzazione (da Barrett
diretta) intesa a combattere tutto ciò che esiste di alternativo
alla "medicina delle pillole" e delle grandi multinazionali
farmaceutiche. 
E' una coincidenza curiosa il fatto che mi sia capitato di accusare
di essere un esponente della "medicina delle pillole" lo stesso
Lorenzo che per Stephen Barrett ha una sorta di idolatria.
Comunque Lorenzo sostiene di non essere un sostenitore della
"medicina delle pillole", e ne sono ben contento.
Due precisazioni. La prima riguarda la forma. Ho preferito copiare
ed incollare questo articolo piuttosto che limitarmi al link.
Barrett sta ottenendo dai suoi avvocati che questo testo scompaia
dalla Rete finché la causa di diffamazione è in corso. In molti
siti questo articolo è stato ritirato. Potrei mettere dei link che
domani non funzionano più.
La seconda riguarda la sostanza. Non ho nessuna garanzia che quello
che dice Bolen sia vero e quello che dice Barrett sia falso, né
viceversa. Solo che è giusto che tutti sentano entrambe le campane.
Qualcuno ha portato Barrett come fosse una grande autorità. Io vi
faccio presente che non tutti la pensano così.
Aggiungo che l'impostazione culturale di Bolen è sicuramente più
vicina alla mia di quella di Barrett. Ma questo non significa nulla.
Prima di lasciarvi all'articolo, un paio di link che dovrebbero
funzionare.
http://homeoinfo.com/09_reference/miscellaneous/quackbusters.php
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/10/quackbusters_lose_against_homeopathy.htm
E ora arriva la ciccia:
"THE LAST DAYS OF THE QUACKBUSTERS"
Opinion by Tim Bolen
I've been following the activities of the "Quackbusters" for about five
years, ever since the name Stephen Barrett came up, as a player, against
a client of mine in California.  I asked the question "why would this
group be using a doctor from Pennsylvania, as their witness, when there
are 300,000 health professionals in this State?"
  Thus began my education.
  The "Quackbuster" operation is a conspiracy.  It is a propaganda
enterprise, one part crackpot, two parts evil.  It's sole purpose is to
discredit, and suppress, in an "anything goes" attack mode, what is
wrongfully named   "Alternative Medicine."  It has declared war on
reality.  The conspirators  are acting in the interests of, and are
being paid, directly and indirectly, by the "conventional"
medical-industrial complex.
  Millions of health freedom fighters, and members of the public,
worldwide, know what I know.  Public outrage and reaction is growing.
After 25 years of unopposed success, the "Quackbusters" are now in real
trouble... "The end" for them, has begun.  They, themselves are being
hunted.
  The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" is in a desperate place now.  They know
they've lost the war, and are going to pay a terrible price for their
actions.  The   fear is in their eyes...
  CRACKPOTS?
  Yes.  When the self-named "Quackbusters" stumbled around to find a
derisive name to call their victims, they picked the word "Quack,"
without ever   bothering to discover it's origins.  Its original
meaning, from Europe, comes from the term "quacksalver" which was used
to describe Dentists who  were dumb enough to use mercury (a poison) as
fillings for teeth.  Look at propagandist, and "Quackbuster" king-pin,
Stephen Barrett's website (
www.quackwatch.com
), and you'll find that HE
IS IN FAVOR of mercury (amalgam) tooth fillings.  Barrett, his cronies,
and minions, are not known  to do intelligent research.
  EVIL?
  Yes.  The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" was started shortly after the
American Medical Association (AMA) lost the court battle to the
Chiropractors in Federal court in 1976.  The Federal judge ordered the
AMA's covert operation shut down - and leave the Chiropractors alone.
The AMA files, library, etc., ended up in Stephen Barrett's 1,800 square
foot basement in Allentown, PA.  Barrett, and his minions, had the
common sense to stay away from criticizing Chiropractors until (I
believe) the Federal Judge died.
  Federal judges have a way of enforcing their decisions using shackles,
Federal Marshals, the federal prison facilities, asset seizure, etc...
Even Barrett, in all his incredible arrogance, isn't dumb enough to
match wills with a Federal Judge.
In that early, educational case for me in California, Stephen Barrett
and two slime-ball investigators from the California Medical Board, had
convinced members of the Laguna Beach Police Department that a
nutritionist using ozone therapy was "a sex criminal preying on women."
Flak-jacketed thugs screwed a gun into Salvatore D'Onofrio's ear, forced
him to lie on the ground, and thus began a brutal, anything goes,
persecution.
D'Onofrio's attorney was a hiking partner of mine, and told me the story
on a ridgeline, seven miles up from a trailhead.  I laugh now when I
remember my naive response "This can't be happening in America."
Sal D'Onofrio, through his attorney, hired us, at day 43 in solitary
confinement in the Orange County Jail.  He was in "solitary" because
that's what they do with sex criminals.  He was in jail because the
judge had set bail at $500,000, an amount his supporters couldn't raise.
Barrett's minions were ruining D'Onofrio's life in the press.
We organized a bail hearing for day 48 of incarceration, put 62 of
D'Onofrio's supporters in the courtroom, LA network television in the
jury box, got the front page of the LA Times, etc., etc., etc., - and
the judge let D'Onofrio out on his own recognizance.   Seven weeks later
the prosecutor dropped the charges.
Who are these people that would, so casually, inflict that kind of
nightmare on an innocent man?
James Carter, MD's authoritative book "Racketeering In Medicine,"
published by Hampton Roads, carefully explains the "Quackbuster
Conspiracy."
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE?
"Alternative Medicine" is defined as any protocol, action, or therapy
that isn't "drugs, radiation, or surgery oriented."
Wrongfully named?  Yes.  So-called "alternative medicine" is actually
the health choice of planet earth.  It is a combination of every good
health idea invented by mankind, in every country and culture on this
planet. There is nothing "alternative" about it.  Labeling planet
earth's health choice as "alternative" is, and was, a propaganda device.
North Americans have overwhelmingly (by their purchases) made
"Alternative Medicine" the "health choice of the people" - for the best
of reasons: it works better than allopathic, it "removes the cause"
rather than "treating the symptoms," it is cost effective, it makes
people feel better and think clearer, and it doesn't have all those
horrible effects, and side effects, of invasive surgery or prescription
drugs.
More than half of the US health dollar in 1999 was spent on "Alternative
Medicine" and it was all out-of-pocket.  Conventional medicine is being
paid for, and is surviving, only because insurance and Medicare pay for
it - the public won't spend an out-of-pocket nickel on it.
Alternative Medicine philosophies fit the "American (I'll make my own
decisions)" way of thinking.  Allopathic Medicine philosophies fit the
"Germanic (follow my orders)" way.    "Alternative Medicine" is for
people who think for themselves - Americans.
The door to real "alternatives" is barely open. The future of medicine
is right in front of us - it isn't in pharmaceuticals - it is in
nutrition, body cleansing, prevention, oxygen therapies and energy
medicine - all of which are constantly targeted by the sleaziest of the
"Quackbuster" soldiers.
THE "QUACKBUSTER" STRONGHOLD...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), is a vital Medical Doctor
(MD) control point. It is the trade organization of all 50 State's
Medical Boards. The FSMB is the organization that writes the policy
manuals, and provides training for, Medical Board investigators and
prosecutors all over the United States.  The FSMB is the "Quackbuster"
police agency.
The "Quackbusters" use the FSMB to persecute two groups (1) "Alternative
Practitioners" within the MD ranks (they treat them like traitors), and
(2) non-licensed alternative health professionals (they charge them with
"practicing medicine without a license").
The "Quackbusters" through the FSMB, have been able to change the focus
of prosecutions against "bad doctors."  They define "bad doctors" as
those that use alternative modalities - and maximum penalties are
exacted.  We have seen in California, that real "bad doctors," those
that kill their patients, actually get off with a slap-on-the-hand by
using the defense "but I prescribed a lot of drugs."  State medical
Boards are not serving the needs of "we the people," they are serving
the needs of the "Quackbusters," and their paymasters.
Medical Board prosecutions are funded by the States - Barrett, and his
slime artists, don't have to spend a dime... I couldn't even count the
number of "alternative medicine" practitioners currently under
persecution from mis-informed Medical Board investigators and
prosecutors.  The damage done to Americans from this attack is
incalculable...
BARRETT'S DUBIOUS CLAIMS ABOUT WHAT "HEALTH FRAUD" REALLY IS...
The US government has indicated that "Health Fraud" is a major problem
in the United States Health Care system.  Statistics show that
"conventional medicine" rips off the American public significantly each
year in bogus billings, false claims, unnecessary procedures and tests,
etc...
Attorney General Janet Reno has a special nationwide "Health Fraud
Prosecution Unit" to deal with this massive problem.  The prosecutions
are against mega-greedy hospitals, HMOs, ambulance companies, nursing
facilities, etc. - all "Conventional" medical units - not "Alternative."
But, if you peruse Stephen Barrett's (don't call him doctor, he's not
licensed) website, you get the impression that "allopaths" are to be
classified somewhere next to archangels - and "alternatives" are
snake-oil salesmen, akin to the devil's minions.  Barrett clearly
defines, in smirky arrogance, health fraud as "alternative medicine."
Huh?
Doesn't Barrett read national statistics on health fraud?  Of course he
does - he just ignores them.  And "Barrett's parrots" at the FSMB mimic
their supreme commander's every word in their policy statements.  Anyone
can read FSMB policy statements, in their entirety, on the web.  Just go
to 
www.fsmb.org
 and start reading.  They, like Barrett, define "health
fraud" as "alternative medicine," and fail to even mention the real
national "health fraud" statistics.
WHY THE FEAR IN THEIR EYES?
Three Reasons:  Exposure, ridicule, and public rage.
(1).  EXPOSURE - Health Freedom Fighters, tired of the persecutions, and
outnumbering the "Quackbusters" 100,000 to 1, are now watching Barrett
and his soldiers carefully.  They've decided to put a stop to Barrett
and company.  Lists are being made of who the "Quackbuster Conspirators"
are, what their function is, where they fit into the conspiracy, who
they work for, who their associates are, where they live, and what their
probable motives are.  Their daily activities, as "Quackbusters," are
being monitored, and documented.
Health leaders consider Barrett, and company, to be running a subversive
organization working against the interests of America.
(2). RIDICULE - Examination of Barrett's operation proves that the
"Quackbusters" are a paper tiger.  They are a construction with a 25
year old modus operandi.  Their membership is small, they have an even
smaller core group, the industry is turning its back on their extremism,
and their leadership "public presence" is laughable.  Their support
network could best be described as "pea-brained."
Their "annual meeting" for the conspiracy was held in a Super 8 motel in
Missouri - 25 stalwarts attended from, at least, six different plotter
groups. Not very impressive.
"Bizarre" Stephen Barrett, his cronies and minions, even labeled two
time Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling as a "Quack."  The American
public, in a consumer-driven movement, is rejecting, with laughter and
ridicule, Barrett and company's ludicrous assertions - hence the term
"Quackpot" is now used, commonly, to describe the self-named
"Quackbusters."
(3).  PUBLIC RAGE - The American public is just now realizing two things
(a) that a good many of those "alternative" things being blocked, and
suppressed, have been around for a long while - but not available to
them because of the conspiracy, and (b) that the system to find and put
new things in place is corrupt - and works against Americans.  Every
"cure" since polio has been suppressed, and the proponents of those
cures, reviled by the "Quackbuster Conspirators."
Statistics show that every one of those "cures" worked to some extent...
Barrett, his cronies, minions, and henchmen, have every reason to fear
public rage.   Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev said it best.  He said,
"We would never invade America.  For every American has a gun..."
"You mean my mother didn't have to die that horribly, or even die at
all?" is a question more, and more Americans are asking...
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Interessante, no?
Xlater
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