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Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Friday, November 20th, 2009

I’ve been wondering who would pick up the reins of the quackbuster operation once Stephen Barrett croaks, which could be very soon.   I think I found the candidate.  He’s perfect for the job – has all of the right qualifications, and seems eager to fill the spot.

For years there was a contest, among the quackpot faithful, to be crowned the heir apparent, and many were groomed for the job.  But, problems kept coming up, so there was no obvious Crown Prince.

Everybody who follows my newsletter could figure out that there were two major candidates vying for the top spot – sometimes even trying to push Stevie off the bus a little early.  I am, of course, referring to Bobbie Baratz, the current president of the National Council Against Health Fraud and Terry Polevoy, Canada’s low-budget Barrett copy.

Bobbie Baratz was, for a time, head and shoulders above Polevoy in the race, for he had three doctorate degrees (MD, DDS, and PhD) and he flaunted them in everyone’s face, offering himself, just like Barrett did, as a virtual expert in EVERYTHING.  To here him talk, and talk and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, you could get the impression that he was a one stop shop, a virtual fountain of infinite knowledge about health care (and much more) – or at least he wanted everyone to think so. Read More…

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Will Suzanne Somers New Book on Alternative Cancer Therapies Start the Cancer Revolt?…

October 19th, 2009 – Watch Larry King tonight.  He’s interviewing Suzanne Somers about her new book “Knockout,” which talks about REAL treatments, ones that actually work, for cancer. Oct 23rd  9:00PM EST

The longest running war conducted by the United States is not the war in Iraq, nor the war in .Afghanistan.  It is the “War on Cancer” started, with great fanfare, in 1972, thirty-seven years ago, by President Richard Nixon. It is a complete failure.  The enemy, cancer, continues to gain ground.

In truth, the only people who benefit from this war are those in the huge, for profit, cancer industry – certainly not cancer victims or their families.  The accepted therapies, those claimed to be “proven,” are, in actuality, worthless.  The statistics generated, even though the industry massages them, clearly show that 97.9% people who go the chemotherapy therapy route are dead five years later.  That’s correct – chemotherapy only has a 2.1% success rate over five years.  Put in a 2.5% “margin of error” and you’ve got a big fat zero. Read More…

Quackbusters Sue Each Other – All is Not Well in Scumville .

October 15th, 2009 – On November 3rd, of the year 2000, quackbusters Stephen Barrett, Terry Polevoy, and Christopher Grell sued me, Tim Bolen, along with a whole host of people, claiming that world famous author and health humanitarian Hulda Regehr Clark PhD had hired me, Tim Bolen, to defame them – and that several others had conspired with Clark and myself to accomplish that.  After 8 and 1/2 years of no action to prove the case the judge threw it out, Dismissing it out of hand. You can read the entire article, the one that went around the world like wildfire, detailing Barrett, Polevoy, and Grell’s huge humiliation, by clicking here..

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Dr. Terry Polevoy is now suing Grell

Polevoy is now suing Grell (skeptics lawyer) … something that none of them want the public to know about it. Now he is even getting his fellow skeptics upset.

Healthfraud Terry Polevoy (an American living in Canada) is now suing Healthfraud Christopher Grell, formerly his attorney. Apparently they did not have a fee agreement according to the suit.Who was it that paid for this lawsuit that ended with the 3 plaintiffs owing a total of a half million dollars for Ilena Rosenthal’s attorneys.

Here is how you find that case info … http://apps.alameda.courts.ca.gov/domainweb/html/index.html

Case # RG09429719

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