Joel M. Eichen, D.D.S.
Homeopaths Now "Own" the Quackbusters...
The Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter
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This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the
battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth.
Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the
activities of a subversive organization calling itself the
"quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and
discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the
allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars.
The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles,
politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom
Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters
are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and
how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine"
click here...:
A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at
quackpotwatch.org.
For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to The Bolen Report
Want To See Earlier Copies (Archives) of This Newsletter?
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
A few years ago a couple of quackpots strutted into a courtroom (or
two) in Los Angeles, California fully intending to "end, for all time,
alternative health practices" in California, by using California's
Business & Professions Code section 17200 (fraud in advertising).
Over forty cutting edge supplement companies were brutally sued by the
Braintree, Massachusetts based National Council Against Health Fraud
(NCAHF) who, in court documents, made some of the weirdest, and most
wild-eyed, legal claims, possibly ever heard in the California Court
System.
In the first case that came to court, the NCAHF v. King Bio case, the
quackbusters pulled out all the stops, and brought in their two TOP
people, Stephen Barrett and Wallace Sampson, to testify, hoping, I
suppose, to set the stage for the other defendants to cave in, get out
their checkbooks, and write big-denomination numbers to get the
quackbusters off their backs.
Yep, the quackbusters, I believe, saw that lawsuit series as the way
to refill their dwindling coffers, get themselves some real money in
"expert witness" fees, and hammer AltMed in a big way....
Well, as you may remember, it didn't work out quite like they hoped.
Barrett, Sampson and the NCAHF limped out of the courtroom, having
suffered everything a Judge can give, short of a fist-in-the-mouth.
The quackbusters were humiliated that day, big time, and I was right
there to write about it.
Of course, the NCAHF filed an appeal. Humiliation doesn't sit well
with them, I think (insert laughter here)..
Even better, was the wording in the three Judge Appeals Court decision
which said that, among a laundry list of criticisms, Barrett and
Sampson were "biased, and unworthy of credibility..." The Appeals
court decision was so anti-quackbuster in its viewpoint it looked like
I, Tim Bolen, wrote it for them...
Not learning their lesson, the NCAHF sued a second group of
Homeopathic manufacturers - and this case not only caused more
humiliation for the quackpots, but he Court did one additional
thing... The Courts awarded attorney fees to the Defendant homeopathic
companies so brutally, and unjustly attacked by the NCAHF.
This is where the story gets REALLY interesting, for the NCAHF is so
poor its Corporate Office is in a cardboard box in the back room of
its current president (Bobbie Baratz)'s hair removal and ear piercing
salon in Braintree, Massachusetts.
There were two interesting points, and legal arguments, about the
attorney fee situation. The courts had to decide, basically, how much
the NCAHF owed the Homeopaths. The quackbusters, in a shrieking
panic, appealed the Court's attorney fee award. The quackbuster's
usual lack of doing competent research into something had, this time,
caught up with them. They now owe the Homeopaths a BIG chunk of
money.
The Court awarded attorney fees in the amount of $100,000.00...
Well, Now...
How, exactly do you think the NCAHF cardboard box operation is going
to come up with a hundred grand, considering their fund-raising
efforts are so pathetic they offered an out-of-focus picture of me,
Tim Bolen, as an inducement to contribution, not so long ago.
Go ahead and belly-laugh, right here, at their expense. They deserve
it.
What, considering the NCAHF's lack of financial solidity, can the
Homeopaths do to recover their legal expenses awarded them by the
Courts? A lot...
My recommendation is that they do three things (1) pursue the
individual NCAHF Board members for the money, (2) pursue the attorney
the NCAHF used for the money, and (3) TAKE the NCAHF away from the
quackbusters, and put it on the auction block. (4) A combination of
the first three.
Right this minute, I'll bid $500, cold cash, for the rights to the
NCAHF. Can you imagine what fun I'd have with their corporate papers,
their membership lists, and their financial contribution records?
There is Justice in the world...
Tim Bolen
The Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter
----------------
This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the
battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth.
Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the
activities of a subversive organization calling itself the
"quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and
discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the
allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars.
The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles,
politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom
Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters
are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and
how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine"
click here...:
A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at
quackpotwatch.org.
For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to The Bolen Report
Want To See Earlier Copies (Archives) of This Newsletter?
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
A few years ago a couple of quackpots strutted into a courtroom (or
two) in Los Angeles, California fully intending to "end, for all time,
alternative health practices" in California, by using California's
Business & Professions Code section 17200 (fraud in advertising).
Over forty cutting edge supplement companies were brutally sued by the
Braintree, Massachusetts based National Council Against Health Fraud
(NCAHF) who, in court documents, made some of the weirdest, and most
wild-eyed, legal claims, possibly ever heard in the California Court
System.
In the first case that came to court, the NCAHF v. King Bio case, the
quackbusters pulled out all the stops, and brought in their two TOP
people, Stephen Barrett and Wallace Sampson, to testify, hoping, I
suppose, to set the stage for the other defendants to cave in, get out
their checkbooks, and write big-denomination numbers to get the
quackbusters off their backs.
Yep, the quackbusters, I believe, saw that lawsuit series as the way
to refill their dwindling coffers, get themselves some real money in
"expert witness" fees, and hammer AltMed in a big way....
Well, as you may remember, it didn't work out quite like they hoped.
Barrett, Sampson and the NCAHF limped out of the courtroom, having
suffered everything a Judge can give, short of a fist-in-the-mouth.
The quackbusters were humiliated that day, big time, and I was right
there to write about it.
Of course, the NCAHF filed an appeal. Humiliation doesn't sit well
with them, I think (insert laughter here)..
Even better, was the wording in the three Judge Appeals Court decision
which said that, among a laundry list of criticisms, Barrett and
Sampson were "biased, and unworthy of credibility..." The Appeals
court decision was so anti-quackbuster in its viewpoint it looked like
I, Tim Bolen, wrote it for them...
Not learning their lesson, the NCAHF sued a second group of
Homeopathic manufacturers - and this case not only caused more
humiliation for the quackpots, but he Court did one additional
thing... The Courts awarded attorney fees to the Defendant homeopathic
companies so brutally, and unjustly attacked by the NCAHF.
This is where the story gets REALLY interesting, for the NCAHF is so
poor its Corporate Office is in a cardboard box in the back room of
its current president (Bobbie Baratz)'s hair removal and ear piercing
salon in Braintree, Massachusetts.
There were two interesting points, and legal arguments, about the
attorney fee situation. The courts had to decide, basically, how much
the NCAHF owed the Homeopaths. The quackbusters, in a shrieking
panic, appealed the Court's attorney fee award. The quackbuster's
usual lack of doing competent research into something had, this time,
caught up with them. They now owe the Homeopaths a BIG chunk of
money.
The Court awarded attorney fees in the amount of $100,000.00...
Well, Now...
How, exactly do you think the NCAHF cardboard box operation is going
to come up with a hundred grand, considering their fund-raising
efforts are so pathetic they offered an out-of-focus picture of me,
Tim Bolen, as an inducement to contribution, not so long ago.
Go ahead and belly-laugh, right here, at their expense. They deserve
it.
What, considering the NCAHF's lack of financial solidity, can the
Homeopaths do to recover their legal expenses awarded them by the
Courts? A lot...
My recommendation is that they do three things (1) pursue the
individual NCAHF Board members for the money, (2) pursue the attorney
the NCAHF used for the money, and (3) TAKE the NCAHF away from the
quackbusters, and put it on the auction block. (4) A combination of
the first three.
Right this minute, I'll bid $500, cold cash, for the rights to the
NCAHF. Can you imagine what fun I'd have with their corporate papers,
their membership lists, and their financial contribution records?
There is Justice in the world...
Tim Bolen
