Re: "Quackbusting" - is a Profitable Business

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And, your point is what?

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

C.Health wrote:
> http://www.quackpotwatch.org/quackpots/quackpots/barrett.htm
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> "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...