Anti-Quackery & Science Blog
The problem with the truth is that so many efforts are made at distorting it to serve questionable purposes or simply reflect one own's biases and faulty thinking.
Perhaps more simply said: "There are 3 sides to every story, yours, mine and the truth."
I have read Adam's books and attended one of his seminars and have also carefully read his website. I have researched the Ronnie Hawkins story.
With very little investigation it was apparent that Ronnie's cancer was undeniably diagnosed by surgeons at a repudible hospital. Inoperable pancreatic cancer. This was well documented by medical records and reported on. Specifically when they operated on Ronnie to cut out the cancer they did not do the procedure because it was larger than the surgeons had anticipated and was wrapped around an artery.
The info. in your post appears to be another skeptic's diatribe which appears either to be deliberately misleading or just sadly lacking in investigation.
People like Adam quickly discover as many others have realized - you can not change the mind of a hard-core skeptic as their mind is "locked from the inside". To spend time proving yourself to them and jumping through their various hoops (and better believe they will ask you to spend enormus time and energy to convince them)is simply not worth the effort and a huge waste of one's limited time.
To others that might wonder the "truth" of the situation, perhaps you should do your own research including reading Adam's books and perusing his website as a starter.
I have done me own investigation and thinking and have concluded that "Adam" is the real thing and you will hear a lot more about this gifted Canadian healer.
My purpose here is not to advertise this healer but to atleast cause others to unlock their own minds a little. Besides the misinformation I find in this post is disturbing.
Make sure your own mind is not being distorted by the professional skeptics as they have their own hidden agenda.
A few questions to be considered about Adam Dreamhealer:
- How can it be explained that Adam can heal at a distance when he doesn't know where his "patient" is at the moment of treatment?
- What proof of the claims of distant healing has been provided ever?
- Has the proof been peer reviewed and published in respected journals such as JAMA?
- Why has Adam not taken up the JREF challenge to prove his abilities?
- How can Adam explain where this energy that he use comes from?
- How can this energy be measured (Is it not correct that all energy is measurable?)
- Why has he selected distance healing as his preferred usage of his "abilities"?
- What medical credentials does Adam possess to diagnose specific conditions?
Mr. Ronnie Hawkins was used on purpose by Adam (and his parents) - and if you ask a surgeon about the pancreatic masses they surely can explain the common problem with diagnosing that part of the body. If something was there it will probably still be there.
His first and second book:
How can it possibly be measured that someone is achieving a higher level of consciousness as mentioned in his books?
In his second book: With aLOT of practice and a good belief that people WANT to be healed, and that YOU CAN do it…..
(And if it doesn’t work, there are reasons……)
Why are these books listed as Religion / New Age and not Science?
This is definitely not misinformation.
If you take a close look at Adam's website - why haven't the testimonials any names on them?
I was just wondering.
30 seconds on a search engine brings much evidence or studies of non-local healing. Yet you would rather imply with your question, that simply none exists. Die-hard skeptics don't really want proof as they can always toss it off with further doubt and questions, I believe it is an ego problem.
http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/
...ling_biblio.htm
As far as questions about scientific proof this and scientific proof that let me leave you with these thoughts.
Science can not prove or measure that Love exists. Science was once convinced that the earth was flat and that heavier than air machines could never fly.
Several of your other questions can be easily answered by doing a little research and study of the field of quantum physics.
Let's get real for a moment about this professional skeptic Randi. He makes his living disputing others and looking for failure examples. His "challenge" of proof will never be won by anyone unless they are willing to subject themselves to a never ending battery of "proof" hoops that will eat away at valuable resources of time, energy and expense. Is a healer better served continuing to heal others or lower themselves to argue with professional non believers?
Most people do not trust studies anyway because many of them are faulty and funded by special interest groups. Look at the drug companies - they have spent hundreds of millions to pump out studies that show their drugs to be safe and effective, yet we now know better than that.
I will take anecdotal evidence and self experience any day over these "studies". Unfortunately there is no reliable way of quickly distinguishing a good study from a bad one.
If 10 of your neighbors take chicken soup successfully to relieve their cold symptoms, you are likely to trust it enough to try it yourself.
Ofcourse the drug industry would scoff at this until someone does a proper study at enormus expense to show efficacy - that is how they play the game. What people should really be asking is: where is the scientific proof that chemotherapy (for example) prolongs life more than chicken soup?
Adam, the dreamhealer's preferred method BTW is seminars where he can treat many more people than one-on-one distant healing. Another area of poor/misleading questions you ask.
Also you continue to dance around the fact that surgeons had opened up Ronnie to physically examine the tumour only to conclude it was inoperable. To flippantly suggest as you do that it was some kind of other mass is sticking your head in the sand.
I will not continue to try to influence any closed minds beyond this post.
For those readers who may want to explore possibilities with an open mind, 2 recommendations.
1. see the documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
2. Read Power VS Force by David Hawkins, MD., PhD (this book shows you an easy way to determine truth and truthful people)
Anecdotal evidence and self experience is only personal and subjective explanations to help oneself understand what might be going on.
It has little to do with evidence or reality.
BUT - If this non-local healing is so good I'm sure it will very soon be recognized as science...
Or is the problem that experiments or studies of non-local healing won't give us more or less reason to think the hypotheses is true or not after doing the experiment than we did before.
Adam Dreamhealer knows non-local healing isn't falsifiable and not provable to science, so of cource he won't apply to Randi's challenge.
I will give you credit on this one from the healers point of view: A healer is better served continuing to heal others or lower themselves to argue with professional non believers. Because of the money.
But what about the patients that are mislead and not receiving proper medical cure with serious consequences to their health?
I am sure you consider yourself to be open-minded, but that does not mean you must believe anything anyone tells you.
Read the entry over at Skeptico "What the Bleep Do We Know?"
He has several "Baaaad examples" showing that this film is pseudoscience.....
Why did he take words from a website, put it in his book, and not credit the source? Yes, it's a government site and you can use it freely, but if you publish a book and use the info, then it's a required obligation to include credit to the source of information, even if it's on the internet.
Yes, he did this in Dreamhealer 2.
I'm not a skeptic. I know gifted healers exist, but they don't resort to using other people's words to describe things they can clearly see better than any microscope can.
Regarding some statements in your post ...
"Goddard took it for granted that this 18-year-old (?) could do what he claims without any kind of questions."
Don't *you* take it for granted that he can't?
Also, a quick search of the article showed that Goddard did ask a number of questions. E.g.
.. "How does the mind help heal the body, I wanted to know?"
.. "What is this life force, this qi energy, that Eastern
philosophers speak of?"
.. "And why, with all of Western medicine's pharmaceuticals,
advanced surgical procedures and technological diagnostics,
do theories of energy and interconnectedness sound so
intuitively worth pursuing?"
.. "I do not doubt Adam's integrity or that of his parents.
Are they self-deluded? "
A quick search of your original post revealed only two questions, one about his real name and the other about his age. I find Goddard's questions a little more thought provoking.
"Adam (will we ever know his real name?) ..."
What a strange comment, coming from someone who only
identifies herself as "Anne" (you may ignore this comment
if "Anne" is truly your only name, like Cher or Prince).
"It is truly remarkable that he can heal unconfirmed
cancer from thousands of miles away and yet doesn't want
his true identity revealed."
Why is it remarkable that he doesn't want his identity
revealed? Maybe he doesn't want Paparazzi stalking him
and taking surveilance photos like those on the
Healthwatcher site.
"John Goddard didn't come up with any new information in
his article on Adam Dreamhealer as he didn't present any
evidence or basic facts and the claims that Adam Dreamhealer
has cured anyone have never been proven."
Funny, I scanned your post for links to double-blind clinical
studies proving no difference between the health of people
who attended his seminars and a control group, but couldn't
find any.
Where's *your* evidence?
"as Goddard had treatments from Dreamhealer, he is not
the right person to report on the subject."
Who is the right person then? Someone who has never tried
what he's reporting on? It's kind of hard to get the
basic facts that way, isn't it?
"It's scary that someone calling themselves a journalist
could believe in this nonsense."
You sound pretty sure of yourself. It reminds me of a quote
I recently read. "I think the whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves."
In addition, let me remind you about something Carl Sagan said. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
Moreover, it is on the claimant to come up with the proof.
A good place to start is to accept the JREF challenge. Nobody has ever won the price, and he could be the first...
Agreed. The claimant should provide evidence (notice I used "evidence" and not "proof" since, as you've mentioned in another post, "if you are serious about the The scientific Case you will not use 'proof' when you mean 'evidence')".
So, what evidence do you have to back your claim that Adam's work is "nonsense"? Even plain, old, ordinary evidence will do. 
I am a scientist. A chemist, more exactly. I have a PhD, and have worked in industry and at a national laboratory.
I could fuss, I suppose, about what I think is wrong with the claims that have been made for these 'miracle healers', but I am not as good a writer as I am a scientist. Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World" says everything I would try to convey.
Instead, I'll tell you what I would want to do, as an experimentalist, if it were established that Adam or anyone could heal people in any miraculous, long distance way.
I'd want to study the tumor cells before and after Adam did whatever it is he does. I'd want to know what proteins were being made in both cases, to see if differences could be seen. I'd compare them with un-miracle-healed cells. I hope that tumor cells uninvolved in anything miraculous have been studied well, because I want to carefully distinguish normal variations in cells from any change that Adam might have made. I'd want to monitor energy production, metabolism, cellular pH. Anything that might change. If we knew for sure that someone healed someone remotely, in a fashion that appears miraculous, I can't think of any property that I wouldn't want to examine, but the basics would be gene expression and metabolism, I think.
If the tumor cells die, I want to find what caused the biochemical machine to stop working.
If we could isolate what Adam's power does or discover what it is, perhaps it could do even more miraculous stuff. Maybe understanding the science behind what he was doing could help Adam. Maybe everyone could do this, if we understood how it works.
Just characterizing and confirming what happened would be a scientific advance worthy of Nobel prizes. Physics would change every bit as much as biology and medicine.
I don't buy the idea that science wants to ignore this sort of claim. If there were credible evidence, if there were even plausible evidence, the scientific payoff from understanding what was going on would be epoch making.
Well said Dave.
In case you are interested, there is a review of various clinical studies on the effects of Qigong therapy (a form of "healing at a distance" that is common in China) on cancer cells at http://www.emergentmind.org/chen.htm.
Not being a researcher myself, I'm not sure how closely any of the studies described match your protocol or whether you would consider the evidence plausible. I found this while only doing a quick Google search. The total number of hits from searching on "+clinical +studies +qigong" was 73,400 however, so I suspect somewhere in there you may find evidence you consider plausible.
The conclusion reached by the authors of the study mentioned above, one of them a PhD from New Jersey Medical School, was "there seems to be considerable evidence suggesting that external Qigong therapy has an inhibitory effect on cancer growth, both in vitro and in vivo studies, even though some of the protocol designs are in need of improvement and some studies need to be replicated by more laboratories. However, there seems to be a lack of basic interest in further research in this direction from the general scientific community, perhaps because it is hard to imagine how it could work, or because no mechanism has been offered so far."
Regarding the idea that science wants to ignore this sort of thing, I don't think the ideals of scientific inquiry have any ingrained bias to it, but the realities of human cooperative endeavours do present problems. The researchers themselves state there is a "lack of support from the scientific community, for fear of losing credibility among peers and funding agents. Scientists, like other people, tend to believe only what they consider "reasonable" or "acceptable," and show a lot of prejudice and discrimination against non-conventional medicine or non-approved therapies like Qigong." They also state "it is considered a very risky decision for a medical scientist to make the career transition from conventional scientific research to CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) research. You may lose the opportunities to publish (very limited journals in this area), to get grants and to get promotions, or you may even lose your job if you cannot get a large grant and publications in a timely manner."
My guess is Anne is really Polevoy. He is the master of disguisio.
I was amused to find your blog after posting my own piece about Adam.
Obviously I don't take the 'head in the sand' approach that most skeptics do. It seems that they don't want to look at the things that actually do occur.
That having been said, there is no doubt that the kid is hyped, and that he is currently making a tidy living off of his notoriety.
Cheers,
Anne (re:Polevoy) says that why don't those who made the testimonials give their names. Well that is pretty obvious...if their names were out there people like Anne (Polevoy) would defame and ridicule them. Your question shows that there is no real thinking going on between your ears. Or are you just trying to communicate with your folllowers. Why don't you stop wasting your energy so you can learn something new.
I am thinking of acupuncture for, at least, pain management. Anecdotal evidence that it works exists. At this point in time, can science explain the physiological mechanics at work? Just wondering . . . Might it be that a new paradigm is needed for these kinds of energy healings?
It would be a simple matter to put Adam to the test without making him jump through hoops.
Send him 100 pictures of cancer patients who have been diagnosed with the same form of cancer at the same stage of development, all receiving the same treatment, and have him perform his quantum holographic healing. Assemble a control group of 100 other cancer patients, diagnosed with the same condition and undergoing the same form of treatment, and compare the groups survival and remission rates.
If the first group performs statistically better than the second one (say, 25% better), I would accept that as proof of Adam's gift. Adam wouldn't need to do anything different than he currently does. If Adam were truly for real, he'd lose nothing by submitting to this test, and a group of cancer patients would be better off because of it.
Polevoy has been charged with stalking Adam! Anyone one else wanna step up to bat? Fucking cowards!
I find it hilarious that anyone suggest to take the Randi challenge. That has got to be the biggest scam ever. I am not surprised because Randi is a magician. It is quite amusing listening to all his little followers and their rants...take the randi test...take the randi test...take the randi test...what a joke. They totally destroyed a true young intuitive from Russia. If you watch that show on Discovery you will soon understand how evil and closed minded they are at CSICOP's. Check this out http://www.victorzammit.com/
arti...ashacansue.html
When people try to force their own opinions on others, they have agendas. Adam puts his experiences out there for us to accept or not, it's our choice. It doesn't feel like an assult. Some skeptics are in your face and that's a red flag to me. They have something to prove and they are running on emotion not neutrality. Whether a skeptic be a journalist or a scientist, examination can only occur if you are detached from your personal beleives. Skeptics like Anne seem to have an emotional trigger when it comes to Adam, therefore her opinions lose veracity for me. If you suggest something is untrue wouldn't you correct balance be to explore its possibilities as well? There are many undiscovered facets of science and life. Many people are born with the understanding of distant healing so it's hard to understand why people seem so afraid, but with money involved it's always good to question the practice of any healer the way we would check out the creds of our physicians. I personally believe in Adam's theories but I also think critics are neccessary and needed. Look past trying to prove everyone wrong, whether its skeptics or believers. Just be stimulated by the possibility of discovery. Let it open your mind. Skeptics don't need to feel like they must protect people. Let them make their own choices.
Dammit - she's ragging on this Adam guy because he is scamming guillable people! That's why the emotion. He is hurting people, and it's wrong.
All the skeptics as usual are flapping their lips without any evidence behind their lies. I would like to clarify that Adam does not take money from people for individual treatments as indicated. He is only doing workshops which help people to empower themselves. His workshopas are $99 which is well below the standard fee for any seminar. I suspect even randi charges more than that. The only difference is that you can trust what Adam is saying. Randi is just full of wind.
The biggest scam out there is the $1 million offered by Randi. I am really surprised randi still has followers who truly beleive randi would pay the 1 million. After 40 years of denying the existence of anything outside our 5 sense he is going to say...whoops I was wrong...what a farce.
Randi and his cronies proved that the offer of 1 million was a BIG LIE when they tested Natalya (the Russian teen with xray vision). She correctly described all six of the first test. The second test she complained about 2 of the illnesses they were using but they insisted on leaving them in. She still got 4 out of 7 with a couple in dispute. The skeptics who call themselves scientists spent the entire show depicting her as a liar. You just have to watch the show to see how deceptive these people at CSCOPS are.
Just keep in mind that all the quackbusters are supported by the big pharma companies. Why someone would want to be a puppet of the drug companies I will never know. Open your minds.
Is Ann's real name Terry??
If you're concerned about sham medicine, look up the countless Internet watchdog groups that promise to protect us from rampant health-care fraud. There's Quackwatch, a skeptical view of virtually everything except pharmaceutical drugs and surgery, and its sister sites Homeowatch, Acupuncture Watch, Chelation Watch and Chirobase.
Yet most "quackwatchers" were strangely mum after the heretical announcement this month by the nation's chest physicians that over-the-counter cough medicines are just another fraud by Big Pharma. I suppose you won't even consider this!!!
A lawyer representing the interests of someone named Dreamhealer says that all references to the name Dreamhealer must be removed from web sites because of what he claims are Trademark infringements.
Is this nothing more than harassment and a violation of freedom of the press. Fair comment is protected under the laws of most civilized countries.
But the fact Adam Dreamhealer has never proven that he can do any of the things that he claims is the truth. For any lawyer to believe those claims and to represent those false claims to stifle free speech and fair comment is grounds for a complaint to the Law Society of British Columbia.
For additional information please refer to my web site:
http://www.healthwatcher.net/Qua...Adam/
index.html
I would also like for those of you who have had their right to express an opinion on this subject challenged legally, or who have been threatened with legal action to contact me privately so we can compare notes.
Thanks,
Terry
A definite case of the pot calling the kettle black. Polevoy saying Adam is taking away his free speech. I really don't think free speech was meant for people like Polevoy to print lies about things he doesn't understand or want to understand. Polevoy has no intention of ever understanding what Adam does.
Let's not forget a couple of things about Terry Polevoy;
Polevoy is a:
Liar
Charlatan
Fraud
Molester
Stalker
Crminal
If Adam is a true healer and can "cure" Cancer, then why not walk through hospitals curing people? Heal these children dying in hospitals everyday. The guy is a fraud, he is taking money and knows if he puts himself to the the test, the money will dry up. He appeals to those who feel that there is no other hope, no unlike John Edwards. He said a bird gave him his insight!?!?! He claims that stuff would fall off the shelf at a Grocery store when he walked passed it, let us see that happen in a controlled. What a shame. How sad for those with terminal cancer that hold on hope for him to cure them.
Hey Brian,
He does distant healing, so why doesn't he just cure the whole world with it, and stop all the wars and feed all the children?
If he trademarked Dream healer then how is it a violation of freedom of the press?
Is it okay for me to name my new soda coca cola?
Thant a good point this guy makes:
"Make sure your own mind is not being distorted by the professional skeptics as they have their own hidden agenda.
Gary Grosschadl | 07.16.05 - 3:21 pm"
What exactly is the skeptics hidden agenda Gary? Is it reality? How self serving. Oh wait that agenda is not hidden.
Hey Brian,
He does distant healing, so why doesn't he just cure the whole world with it, and stop all the wars and feed all the children?
_________________________
That comment obviously shows how unintelligent you are. Heh...the doctos say chemo cures cancer...why don't they rid the world of cancer. Instead of killing people everyday with toxins like chemo.
I was a close friend of Adam in elementary school, and lost contact with him after grade 7, and met him recently on the streets.
To get the facts straight, Adam, is is real name, and I highly doubt that he holds anysort of healing powers.
Who are these so-called "Quackbusters"?...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
North Americans have known, or suspected, for some time, that there has been an organized assault by a group, against companies, and practitioners, offering alternatives to the drugs/surgery paradigm. That group calls itself the "quackbusters," and they are a scam.
I'm about to tell you WHY that assault was formally assembled, HOW THE SCAM works, and WHO the players are, and WHAT they're up to right now.
If you know who they are, and how they operate, you can beat them.
North America has been going towards what are called "alternatives," in health and medicine, in a big way. More than half of the US health dollar is currently being spent on this phenomena. With new billing codes (ABC Codes) going into effect, allowing insurance and Medicare to pay for "alternative" therapies, that percentage will, no doubt, increase dramatically.
In California, the fifth largest stand-alone economy in the world, where I live, the health freedom movement is much larger than anywhere else. Here, we'd rather be healthy than medicated. We've analyzed the politics of the problem, and successfully turned the political environment to our way of thinking. We simply do not put up with "quackbuster" crap, here.. Why should we?
And, neither should you...
Throughout this discourse keep something important in mind. It's this - we in the Health Freedom Movement outnumber the quackbusters 100,000 to 1. We've got more money than they do, and we've got better, and more talented people. We also have better lawyers. It is time to use our advantage to destroy them.
WHY IT WAS FORMALLY ASSEMBLED...
Three things, I believe, seriously alarmed conventional (mainstream) medicine and spurred them to action in late 1996.
The FIRST thing was reports showing that medical care in this country is so bad that doctors and hospitals were listed as the third largest cause of unnecessary death. Since then, they have moved to the Number one spot. Americans have been finding out that the average MD these days, beyond the emergency room, has little to offer beyond the "magic bullet," meaning the new drug pushed this week by the drug company salesman.
The bottom line in conventional medical care is a shock, and Americans are expressing their displeasure with the situation with their changes in health buying patterns - which leads to the Second thing.
The SECOND thing was a 1993 report in the New England Journal of Medicine (JAMA) that showed the huge financial impact of "Alternative Medicine" on the US health care dollar.
The THIRD was the Clinton Administration's identification of "health fraud" as a major cause of health care's rising costs - and the announcement of Attorney General Janet Reno's plans to deal with that issue STRONGLY.
WHY IT WAS FORMALLY ASSEMBLED...
Three things, I believe, seriously alarmed conventional (mainstream) medicine and spurred them to action in late 1996.
The FIRST thing was reports showing that medical care in this country is so bad that doctors and hospitals were listed as the third largest cause of unnecessary death. Since then, they have moved to the Number one spot. Americans have been finding out that the average MD these days, beyond the emergency room, has little to offer beyond the "magic bullet," meaning the new drug pushed this week by the drug company salesman.
The bottom line in conventional medical care is a shock, and Americans are expressing their displeasure with the situation with their changes in health buying patterns - which leads to the Second thing.
The SECOND thing was a 1993 report in the New England Journal of Medicine (JAMA) that showed the huge financial impact of "Alternative Medicine" on the US health care dollar.
The THIRD was the Clinton Administration's identification of "health fraud" as a major cause of health care's rising costs - and the announcement of Attorney General Janet Reno's plans to deal with that issue STRONGLY.
THE EFFECTS ON MAINSTREAM...
STOMACH ACHE #1 - The 1993 JAMA report on Alternative Medicine... had to be a shock to conventional medicine. It showed that the American public was not in the "Marcus Welby," or the "Ben Casey" mode any more - where the guy in the white coat, with the stethoscope around his neck, was America's sole source of health advice. The "Ask Your Doctor" program was flat-out dying.
The JAMA report suggested that more visits were being made to unconventional practitioners in 1990 then to conventional - 488 million unconventional visits to 388 million to primary care physicians. 13.7 billion dollars was spent on unconventional practices as opposed to 12.8 billion for hospitalization. Alternative Medicine, which excels outside of the Emergency Room was, offering real health solutions.
STOMACH ACHE #2 - Then, in 1995, Janet Reno, the then Attorney General, under the direction of the US President, came out with a program identifying "health fraud" as a major problem in the US health care system. She shocked, and frightened, conventional practitioners. "Health Fraud" - was, and is, defined by the Justice Department as "Over billing, false coding, MD kickbacks, etc.." Reno, of course, was right - conventional medicine was, and is, involved in sheer greed and dishonesty. It was, and is, a huge problem.
In response, mainstream medical went into orbit, trying to deflect her attack - to no avail. Janet Reno was teaching "seniors" how to read their medical bills - and turn their doctor into the Feds. The "Meds" were in trouble with the "Feds." And, still are. And, should be...
So mainstream, rather than fix their own house, had to come up with a plan to counter these two assaults on their dollar intake. They did... and here it is...
DHHS was duped into giving the quackbusters unwarranted credibility. Type in the key words "health fraud" on a government website, and up pops the National Council Against Health Fraud's website, and quackwatch.com.
The second part (b) , and equally important was to demonize, and criminalize, all aspects of "alternatives" through false suggestions, or claims, against them. For instance; The claim that herbals are "untested" and not "standardized" is simply a ploy to make herbals look bad. Herbals do not need to be "tested," nor "standardized." Herbals are more like wine - since they are a natural product, dependant upon natural factors like weather, no two batches are going to be the same. Herbals, being part of nature (part of earth's life cycle) have been field tested since the beginning of time. The "testing" process we the people put in place is for new "drugs," not herbals - those things, unlike herbals, that have NEVER been introduced into the human body before. Generally speaking, drugs are HUGELY DANGEROUS - hence the warnings of side effects.
PART FOUR of the plan was to create a relationship with Medicare, and the health Insurance Industry, to supposedly, advise them of "health fraud." It incorporated, in a sub-plan parts One, Two, and Three, above.
WHO THE PLAYERS ARE...
The whole scam is run out of a New York ad agency...
I believe one of the primary players in this scam is the Board, management, and staff of the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards). Their website basically says "We don't know what alternative medicine is - so we'll call it health fraud." It is they, I believe, who control the daily operation of the plot. As you read this, at exactly this moment, some, or all of the FSMB people, are probably on the phone, the FAX, or the internet, organizing the persecution of some unsuspecting leading-edge healer in North America. Ten minutes from now, they will begin another. Then another, then another, then another...
The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is another player. It wants to appear to be an important wheel in health care. The reality is different. It was rudely EVICTED from Loma Linda University a few years ago, and after bouncing around from place to place, has now found a home in a hair removal salon in Massachusetts, where the NCAHF president, Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, PhD is the "Medical Director." Hair removal?
One other player, recently fading from the scene, muscled out by Bobbie Baratz, is Stephen Barrett MD, who the Pennsylvania licensing board officially classifies as "Not in Good Standing," operates the dubious website "quackwatch.com" out of his basement in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
There are other players, but it would take to long to explain how it works. Again, I recommend James Carter MD's SUPERB book "Racketeering In Medicine." as a resource. Page #44 has an outline of the whole quackbuster scam.
THE REAL PROBLEM IS...
What is the REAL problem, exactly? Generally, "we" are the problem. "We" meaning the North American Health Freedom Movement. Specifically, it's that "we," in the Health Freedom Movement haven't completely countered the attack plan put into place a few years ago (1996), by the quackbuster conspirators to destroy "Alternative Medicine." It's time we did that. - and we can do it relatively easily.
What we have to remember is that, despite the quackbuster's best efforts, "Alternative Medicine" is gaining, not losing, ground in public acceptance. Americans aren't buying into the quackbuster "big lie" propaganda program.
Since identifying a problem is half-way to solution - we're more than half done solving this issue.
SO WHAT ABOUT THE QUACKBUSTER'S BIG PLAN?
We know that several years ago, the plan was put together, and explained at the 1996 meeting of the FSMB, by a group of conspirators, to use the Medical Boards, the FSMB, the Attorney Generals, certain employees of the FTC and the FDA, and top quackbusters for the purpose of stamping out "Alternative Medicine." Although the whole thing was exposed in magazines like "The Townsend Letter," the plan was activated. It is on-going now. At that time there was no super-strong (like there is now) "Health Freedom Movement," per se - so there was no national counter-strategy, and no counter-action.
That was THEN - this is NOW.
Now, of course, we know that when a "top quackbuster" shows up to testify somewhere, someone is waiting with the equivalent of a factual ball-bat - and that quackbuster is publicly exposed for the out-of-a-job loser crackpot they really are. In other words, we've negated an important component in their attack plan - their so-called "experts." We did this to Bobbie Baratz in Wisconsin. Each time he opened his mouth he sank deeper into the quicksand.
Dismantling their "activated plan" is also really a simple exercise. We simply use our size, and intelligence, advantage.
"The Plan of 1996," such as it is, was in five parts, and it had a basic theme - Destroy Alternative Medicine by "Criminalizing" it. Kind of like depicting Mother Theresa as "the whore of Calcutta."
Their five part plan goes like this: (1) Set up a central propaganda center. (2) Control who gets prosecuted through the FSMB, and medical boards. (3) Affect Medicare, and Medical Insurance Company payment decisions (4) Use the system to harass, discourage, and destroy Alt Med practitioners, and providers. (5) Demoralize the opposition with the viciousness of the campaign.
"The Plan of 1996" is having a limited success, not because it's a good plan, but because we don't do anything about it. Our reaction, to this point, has been to put protective "Health Freedom Laws" in place - and we are having only LIMITED success with that. We need to change strategies slightly.
WHY IT'S SO EASY TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE...
The quackbusters, I've found, aren't individually, or in groups, that bright. Read delicensed MD Stephen Barrett's website "quackwatch.com," and his resume, and you'll see what I mean - and he's their chief propagandist. Everything he says is like he was simply filling out a form someone, with a higher intelligence, gave him. His mouthings are boringly the same, each and every time.
Keep in mind that Barrett, although claiming to be a retired Psychiatrist, was never able to become "Board Certified." He failed his test. Also, Barrett gave up his MD license in 1993. I suspect he just couldn't keep up with new things. His employment record shows he NEVER was able to hold a full-time job - and his claim to "Psychiatric fame" was his part-time (4 to 8 hours a week) employment at a Pennsylvania Mental Hospital - from 1978 through 1993. From 1976 through 1978 he COULD NOT GET a paying job.
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The author claims Mercury in vaccines is a conspiracy theory.
He evidently doesn't know how to do a Google search.
The CDC itself admits it puts Mercury in vaccines. Here's a television news report telling us how great it is. Is this a conspiracy theory?
If we report that the sun came up this morning then it becomes a conspiracy theory. The unparalleled ineptness of the debunkers is quite pathetic to behold and their maladroit arguments wouldn't stand up in a debate with a three-year-old child.
Many of these feeble minded individuals cite Snopes.com as if it was some kind of bible. When Snopes says something is an urban legend they are above reproach and have the monopoly on truth.
The fact is that Snopes.com is run by two individuals who are attempting to cover every topic under the sun and verify the merits of each in turn.
Consequently, there are holes in their 'explanations' that you could fly a 747 through.
Well, Snopes.com says it's an urban legend so they must be right!
Bill Clinton also said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Just because somebody says it does not make it so.
A great deal of this mentality stems from laziness. It's much easier to swallow the government's version of events, buy a six pack and fall asleep in front of American Idol. Taking time to actually question something, use your own discernment and come to a conclusion takes time and energy, which is better spent in their estimation watching 24 or Threat Matrix.
Joe Six Pack also highlights the Bush connection to John W. Hinckley Jnr., Reagan's would be assassin, as being another one of our fantasies.
Is it a fantasy that the Associated Press reported on March 31st 1981 that the Hinckley family were scheduled to have dinner with the Bush family?
Is this another urban legend?
Well, I hope this showed Anthony that I do have a skeptical side and am very much aware how 'crazy' the theory sounds. The difference is, I don't let that kind of sentiment stop me from pursuing the truth, purely based on objective reasoning and observations (including reading patterns). Adjectives, like 'crazy' and 'extraordinary', are a non-factor in real science.
Not only does Plutarch reveal here that Cronus/time arises in the south and ends in the north just like the Nile, he even goes on to draw a direct parallel between Cronus/time and the Nile! This is almost an open and direct acknowledgement that the Nile may indeed represent the flow of time.
Yes, well... when you start with the conclusion, it's easy to cherry-pick your evidence. Remember, people are really bananas because they both have skins.
Anthony is just reciting his standard line that is simply not applicable here. It's laughable!
It's funny because he is attacking portions of The Nile Decoded that are meant to lay the foundation for the hypothesis of the Nile potentially being a literal 'river of time'. The purpose of these portions is to show how the hypothesis naturally arises from the many clues and how it is not something I had subjectively decided was the truth. So describing these parts as 'starting with the conclusion' is just so... well, 'off'. It doesn't make any sense. I guess Anthony was a little startled by the 'Plutarch' clue, which is actually quite striking.
To all intents and purposes, Osiris is the Egyptian version of Cronus-Saturn, the god of time.
Really? I've not seen that... can anyone please point me to a real reference that says that? Anywhere? I got the whole resurrectioin/rebirth thing down pretty well... and his dominance.... but this guy seems to think that Osiris was there from the beginning as a major player in the Egyptian Ennead of Gods.
It is actually no secret that both Osiris and Saturn are closely associated with death, time, and 'resurrection'. That's undeniable. Is Anthony disputing this? Perhaps he needs to study mythology a little more. (Just to be sure, I'm not saying that Osiris and Saturn are 'identical'; but it is clear that there are large overlapping aspects.)
Sorry, Charlie. He's a late-comer to the game. You're gonna have to find yourself another god to play patsy for your pseudoscience.
For this, we turn to the Giza monuments, evidently an integral part of the Nile scheme (marking the river’s northern edge). Giza, through its astronomical alignments, manages to give us just what we need to turn the ancient river into a tangible map of time.
The key here is Robert Bauval’s popular ‘Orion Correlation Theory’ (or more broadly the ‘Star Correlation Theory’) which traces the Giza layout back to the stars.
As died the OCT, so to die all ideas based on it. This entire section is a non-starter.
In Anthony's mind, Bauval's Orion Correlation Theory has bee, wholly debunked, of course. I addressed this issue in The Nile Denial:
Criticism: [...] The Orion Correlation Theory, a major part of the Time River design, is still a controversial theory. This means that the Time River theory is built on a very shaky foundation.
Response: [...] It is true that some academics are not fond of [the Orion Correlation Theory]. But as mentioned in Chapter 3 [of the book The Time Rivers], those critics’ arguments are quite lame. In almost every case, they are infected with the fallacy of ‘composition’ (where some little inconsistency is somehow treated as a proof of the illegitimacy of the whole theory). And it is also important to point out that the Time River Theory does not depend on the validity of the Orion Correlation Theory. The rivers’ overlay/transposition schemes alone are solid enough to make the theory compelling.
In terms of the Nile timeline, however, it is indeed the OCT that helps us unlock the 'code'. At least one of the two 'anchor dates', 10,600 BC, does derive from the OCT, although it's not required. Orion is Osiris/time. And the constellation's southern culmination (or the lowest meridian transit), due south and very close to the horizon (thus guiding our attention to the Nile's source Lake Victoria lying due south), pinpoints 10,600 BC. (Here is a pertinent illustration from The Nile Decoded.)
Terry Polevoy MD, a medical doctor under your jurisdiction, is an embarrassment to the medical profession. He is now, and has been for some time, engaging in a series of activities which could only be described as “Professional Misconduct.” I believe the seriousness of his misconduct merits an investigation for the purpose of disciplinary action not excluding revocation of licensure.. Please begin such an investigation immediately.
It may be that Polevoy, in his current mental state, is a danger to the Canadian community. As such, it might be prudent to suspend his license pending outcome of the investigation.
Polevoy, it appears, is obsessed with a public attack on “Alternative Medicine” proponents. His attack method is virulent, far outside normal discussion method, focuses on personal attack, defamation, character assassination, and malicious falsehood. Polevoy never uses scientific argument, nor does he back up his virulent attacks with facts. He uses instead, as his “proof,” as it were, of his credibility, his MD license - and ONLY his MD license.
I believe Polevoy, with his virulent, obsessive attacks on proponents of alternative medicine, may be in violation of several subsections of clause 51(1)(c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code, as follows:
Subsection 4) - Practicing the profession while the member’s ability is impaired...
Subsection 5) - Having a conflict of interest...
Subsection 13) - Making a misrepresentation respecting a remedy, treatment or device...
Subsection 14) - Making a claim respecting the utility of a remedy, treatment, device or procedure other than a claim which can be supported as reasonable professional opinion...
Subsection 16) - Falsifying a record relating to the member’s practice...
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- Signing or issuing, in the member’s professional capacity, a document that the member knows, or ought to know, is false or misleading...
Subsection 33) - An act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional...
Subsection 34) - Conduct unbecoming a physician...
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Polevoy, police reports show, STALKED Canadian Radio Personality Christine McPhee, until, terrified, she called in police. He followed her around, affecting disguises, for months - then further terrified her by e-mailing her the details of his stalking actions. Police agencies felt it necessary to assign armed uniformed officers to protect McPhee from Polevoy. Reports show that McPhee was not the only female Polevoy stalked.
Polevoy operates a “hate” website targeting “Alternative Health” practitioners, and competent Canadian authority. On this website, Polevoy characterizes all of his targets as “cheats, frauds, swindlers, whose sole motivation is profit at any cost.” His virulent attacks, both by e-mail, and on his website (www.healthwatcher.net bring into question his overall mental state.
Alternative Medicine is a significant social and political issue in Canada. Competent authority ie; Universities, medical and health associations, government agencies, elected and appointed officials, and the Canadian Medical Association have legitimized the “Alternative” model. Polevoy accuses them all of the same “fraud, swindling, etc...”
Polevoy’s most recent campaign is a venomous attack, in partnership with a Patricia Marchuk MD, against Radio Personality Christine McPhee - again. Polevoy has, in the current attack on McPhee, barraged Canadian Radio executives, the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commissions (CRTC), the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council(CBSC), and the radio stations, with bombacity, lies, and misrepresentations - all the while, holding up his MD license as evidence of his “expertise.” They offered no proof - except their MD licenses, claiming that that license qualified them as “experts.”
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Courts Seize "Quackbuster" Bank Accounts, Property...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
A few days ago, Christopher Grell, one of the Plaintiffs, and the attorney for the Plaintiffs Stephen Barrett and Terry Polevoy , filed an emergency Ex Parte Motion with the Alameda, California Trial Court in the Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case asking for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Defendant Rosenthal from collecting attorney fees awarded to Rosenthal by the Courts. The Court denied the Motion, and "collection" has begun in earnest.
Rosenthal, you will remember, in a six year legal battle, soundly thrashed the trio all the way to the California Supreme Court. Rosenthal, the head of the Humantics Foundation, a group pointing out the dangers of silicone breast implants, had been sued by the trio in 2000 where they claimed she was some sort of conspirator supposedly defaming them on the internet. Rosenthal, in her answer to the suit, filed a Motion to Dismiss the suit against her claiming that the trio's action constituted a violation of California's anti-SLAPP law. The Court agreed, dismissing the case against Rosenthal, and awarded her attorney fees.
The Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case garnered international notice when virtually ALL of the big names on the internet jumped in on Rosenthal's side, filing "Friend of the Court" Briefs on Rosenthal's behalf. You can read all about that by clicking on "Quackbusters CRUSHED by California Supreme Court..."
But the really good part of all this, the one that makes me smile broadly, is that California's anti-SLAPP law, designed for just this sort of situation, worked just like it was designed. The anti-SLAPP legislation, whose full title is "anti Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," was designed to stop Plaintiffs from filing scurrilous lawsuits against Defendants just to shut them up on a public issue, by overpowering them with litigation they cannot afford. The law provides for the Defendants, by allowing them to collect their attorney fees from the Plaintiff almost immediately upon winning a Motion to Dismiss. The trio were able to forestall that original payment only because they appealed the original Judge's decision to the California Appeals Court, then to the California Supreme Court - where they were soundly, and publicly, horse-whipped.
The trio, apparently, aren't willing to acknowledge their debt, nor their loss. Now, the "collection" process has begun, and the Courts are allowing a ruthless approach to that collection, "as follows: Levy on any & all bank deposit accounts held in name or interest of judgment debtor as well as accounts receivable, lines of credit, general intangibles, and/or proceeds thereof in which he has an interest individually or jointly, include contents of any safety deposit to which he has access; SSN:113-44-9446"
It gets even better - Court documents say:
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