26 Nov 2011

Another frothy threat from Burzynski's alleged representative. Lot's of RED ARROWS.

Purely for your pleasure, I do not want to feed trolls. No commentary required.

This came to me this morning cc'ed to the great and the good in the sceptical blogosphere and a few people at the Burzynski Clinic. I have removed one name to preserve one blogger from disclosure until they go public.

Andy Lewis,
 
Just so you know that I am very serious.  I copied Renee Trimble the Director of Public Relations, and Azad Rastegar the spokesperson for the Burzynski Clinic.  You and your supporters can stop asking if I am an attorney.  Again, I represent the Burzynski Clinic, Burzynski Research Institute, and Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski.  If your articles remain online I will pursue you in court to the highest extent of the law.
 
Threats to your family? You mentioned to me that you just had a child.  I advised you to spend more time with your child instead of lying to the public.  I also advised that you will be affected financially once a lawsuit is filed against you. Why would you be so selfish and inconsiderate to your family to go through the stressful and financial burden of multiple court proceedings knowing that you are posting lies and propaganda?
 
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
 
You are apart of a network started by Michael Shermer called “Skeptic Society”--http://www.skeptic.com/, which is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization that examines....alien abductions”.  Your network is linked to other fraudulent websites and individuals, such as, quackwatch.com, ratbags.com, the21stfloor, Peter Bowditch, [REDACTED] , Stephen Barrett, Dr. Saul Green, etc.  I also have you guys linked to the Wikipedia page of my client.  You should know that the IP Address is publicly recorded by Wiki.  A subpoena is used to obtain your personal information.  By law, the government does not need to notify you, or disclose when they are pursuing your personal information.  see Wikileak personal information.
 
You define your network as individuals that “prefers beliefs and conclusions that are reliable and valid.... A skeptic provisionally proportions acceptance of any claim to valid logic and a fair and thorough assessment of available evidence”.  Your evidence comes from Stephen Barrett and Saul Green who are apart of your skeptic network, so how fair and valid are your assessments..?
 
You are fully aware that the quackwatch website is not reliable, valid, fair, or a thorough assessment of available evidence, and that its owner, and your network, were exposed as frauds, not licensed, and maliciously disseminating false information to the public. Your Skeptic network uses the quackwatch.com website as the Bible to your mission of lying to the public.  You are not posting your “opinion” and “concern for public health”, you and your network are posting malicious propaganda against my client which stretches back over 10 years.
 
Your opinion and concern for public health “defense” will not stand up in court.  Your statements are not True, you have no absolute, conditional, legal privileges, or consent to post, and your statements consist of actual malice.  As you already know, Dr. Burzynski is a public figure and the Burzynski Research Institute is a publicly traded organization.  So your libelous statements are now  interfering with business contracts and business relationships. The information you assert in your article is factually incorrect, and posted with either actual knowledge, or reckless disregard for its falsity.
 
Again, I advise you to shut down all libelous articles about my client immediately.  Your network is full of lawyers, and I am sure they know the source of information that you use, such as quackwatch, are considered fraudulent and void, in addition to the conflict of interest between my client and Saul Green.  I am showing that you have no source of information, and you will not be able to show proof of your statements against my client in court.  What is the source of your allegations?  You formulated your opinion based on statements made by other skeptics blogs, and Quackwatch, which consist of false information per court orders.  Opinions must be supported by facts.  You are aware of the fact that my client is involved with FDA approved clinical trials, completed phase II, and has approach Phase III.  Phase II, as you know,--- to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.  You have full access to evaluate the data of Antineoplaston phase II results, you and your entire skeptic network refuse to acknowledge the results.
 
Let me quote what's on your website: “When we say we are “skeptical,” we mean that we must see compelling evidence before we believe”.  Here is some compelling evidence for you about your network.  I will use this information in my legal complaint filed against you and many of your associates.  You no longer have a right to an opinion when its proved your acts are malicious.
The Main Skeptic website
skeptic website

Andy Lewis – A Skeptic.  Yes, that is you.  Quackometer..Quackwatch no difference.
andy website bri article

Your twitter Andy – Guilty by association?  That is Ratbags Peter Bowditch...
Andy twitters

Peter bowditch – Ratbags owner/A skeptic
rat skeptic

Mr. AUSTRALIAN SKEPTIC – see title below
peter bowditch

Peter Bowditch – You people look up to this guy? 

peter bowditch2

Saul Green – A skeptic
green skeptic

My client Sued AETNA...AETNA hired Emprise, Inc. who went out of business..Saul Green unemployed.

aetna saul

Saul Green’s RESUME: This is public information

green resume

Saul Green the Unemployed Skeptic Retaliates with a LIE.  A few weeks later Shontelle Hiron  is cured by my client and make news worldwide.  Due to my client saving her life, She even carried the Olympic torch in 2000 with my client by her side.
jama

[Redacted]

21st floor – A skeptic
21
21 skep

Genomic Repairman – After my legal complaint
Genomic Repairman

Stephen Barrett – A SKEPTIC.   Quackwatch and Ratbags court documents

barrett sued

Stephen Barret QUACKWATCH the SKEPTIC WEBSITE
barrett suedh

skepps 


This is a very serious matter.  Be smart like [redacted]  and everyone else..including Google when I went after them.  If your articles are still up I will pursue you.  You have no defense, Andy.  Honestly, what do you think the judge and jury are going to think about you when I disclose your connection, propaganda, and false information?  Its not about your message, its about the context of your message. The context of your posting is to create in the public the belief that my clients are disreputable, are engaged in on-going criminal activity, and must be avoided by the public.

 This email proves you and your skeptic network are maliciously attacking my client.  ALL of the negative information on the internet about my client is linked to your skeptic network.  I will prove this in court.  Do me a favor and post this email on your website..that is another pattern of your skeptic network.  I would greatly appreciate it. 

 Please remove all articles Immediately.  Spread the message to your associates.
 
Regards,
Marc

17 Nov 2011

What Ever Happened to Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital?

The Liverpool Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital.
Last year I asked the question, Are There Any Homeopathic Hospitals in the UK? In short, the answer was, "It is a myth that there are homeopathic hospitals in the UK. What we have are the tiny, vestigial remnants of Victorian Quackery in a few small clinics."

Not so long ago, the Faculty of Homeopathy was boasting of five NHS Homeopathic Hospitals. Since then Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital closed. The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital gave up pretending it was a homeopthic hospital last year and renamed itself the  Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine where it serves up a mish-mash of superstitious medicine. We learnt this week that Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital has closed its pharmacy that specialised in labeling bottles of sugar pills for customers. It also styles itself the Centre for Integrative Care in Glasgow, no doubt to avoid the poisonous name of 'Homeopathic Hospital'. Bristol Homeopathic Hospital retains its name but is reduced to an annex building. Liverpool too was reduced to being part of the Old Swan Clinic in Liverpool.

But now no mention of Liverpool appears to exist.The Faculty of Homeopathy no longer lists it. The Old Swan Centre web site appears not to mention homeopathy. Indeed, it would appear that Bristol is the only clinic that still exists and dares to call itself a NHS Homeopathic Hospital. 

So what happened to Liverpool. It would be good to mark its demise. But does anyone know what happened? Any info gratefully received.
14 Sep 2011

Dana Ullman Begs for Money from Homeopaths

You know, I write my blog posts for nothing. I quite enjoy the act of writing and exploring the issues involved. Dana Ullman is though a shill for homeopaths. He does not practice homeopathy - he just wants to spread homeopathic propaganda in return for cash. There is no other pretty way of saying it.

Friends,

    My newest article, "The Disinformation Campaign Against Homeopathy," was just published in the Huffingtonpost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-ullman/disinformation-about-homeopathy_b_952967.html?ref=healthy-living-body

    It is about time that someone stood up against the disinformation that is frequently spread (and repeated) on homeopathy!  And this article is just part one...wait until you read PART TWO!  I name names...and provide specific critique of two leaders of the disinformation campaign against homeopathy:  one from the USA and one from the UK.  I know that most people will be able to guess who in the USA I cover...but few people will guess the person from the UK...yeah, I'm going to keep you guessing.

    We can all expect the deniers to be out in force in the comments section of this article.  Therefore, I hope that those of you who appreciate homeopathy can and will join the discussion.

 

    By the way, on January 1, 2011, I told a group of homeopathic supporters that I could not afford the time and effort to write any new articles on homeopathy UNLESS some people stepped forward to provide financial support for this work.  Shortly after announcing this, several people stepped forward...and I was then able to write that article about the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize and who had just been interview in SCIENCE magazine for his interest in homeopathy! 

    This funding from PEOPLE, not companies, also enabled me to write the articles about homeopathy and ADD/ADHD and on "The King's Homeopath" (the homeopath to King George VI, for whom the movie, "The King's Speech," was made).

    I now need more support from the homeopathic community...without it, I cannot afford the great amount of time it takes for me to write these articles.  The good news is that a non-profit organization was established to support my work.  Americans can send tax deductible donations to the FOUNDATION FOR HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, 2036 Blake St., Berkeley, CA. 94704 (or you can send PayPal donations to:  fher@...) 

    People outside of the USA and others who do not need a tax deductible donation can send credit card contributions to Homeopathic Educational Services:  https://www.homeopathic.com/cms-global/shoppingcart/ViewProduct.do?productId=215  (This links allows contributions in $10 increments...you choose how many increments you wish).

   

    Please consider putting your wallet where your heart is!

31 Aug 2011

Didi Ananda Ruchira of Abha Light tells homeopaths how to cheat online polls

Currently, the Guardian is holding one of those daft online polls to see which side of the homeopathy debate can muster the most clickers...

Here is how one notorious AIDS and malaria quack is telling other homeopaths how to rig the poll...

(Note the beautiful conspiracy thinking at the end whilst the actually conspiracy to mislead is being orchestrated by her.)

Hi Rochelle and all,
I doubt that there are really all that many people out there voting.
Here's how to log your votes -a tactic which I'm sure the skeptics are already using, so there's no need to be secretive about it- Some pro-enthusiasts on this mailing list may wish to use the same tactics.
I use Firefox, so I'm giving instructions for that. You can figure out other browsers easily enough.
1. go to the webpage and vote
2. then go to the menu - TOOLS - CLOSE RECENT HISTORY and set it to delete cookies and cache for the last 1 hour.
3. Close the browser.
4. open it again and vote again.
5. Repeat the same till you get really tired of this sham vote by the Guardian.
ADDITIONAL - if you want to invest $30 or so for a year subscription, you can buy one of those "hide IP" proxy softwares which will change your IP when you open up your browser - Easy Hide is a good one.
Then change your proxy with every vote - making it look like the vote is coming from somewhere else- just in case the survey is actually tracking your IP from their computers.
To speed up this tedious work, temporarily set your homepage to the poll page so to save yourself a click
==
Right now, it's about 8 AM in Nairobi as I write this and I've logged in about 20+ votes, only to see the "no" side climb as I do it.
That tells me that either (a) there's some earlybird/nightowl guys/gals in UK or USA also clicking away as fast as I'm doing it  OR (b) Guardian is skewing the votes by registering all the "yes" votes as "no".
=== 
what do you think?

Sincerely,
Didi Ananda Ruchira | Director | Tels: +254 (0)733-895466   /  +254 (0)723-869133  | www.abhalight.org 
30 Aug 2011

Ed Vaizey does not think there is a problem after reviewing 38 Degrees NHS Legal Review

I wrote to my MP about the findings of a legal review of the NHS reforms.


This is a summary of their findings


http://38degrees.3cdn.net/8f198acad5d3ae0363_8gm6iv7se.pdf


You can email your MP too to find out what they think,


http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/email-your-mp-now


This is his reply...


Dear Andy,
 
Thank you for contacting me about the Health and Social Care Bill. You will be aware that the significant amendments the Government is making to the Health and Social Care Bill have been welcomed by many organisations, including the NHS Confederation, patient groups, and think tanks. 
 
You asked about three specific points. First, you wanted reassurance that the Secretary of State’s duty to secure provision of NHS services will not be abolished or passed to another body. I can confirm that the Bill, as amended, will not abolish this duty or pass it to another body.
 
Second, you wanted reassurance that private companies will not end up in charge of determining what services are provided on the NHS. I can confirm that the Bill will not allow this to happen.
 
Third, you asked for assurance that the NHS Commissioning Board will not put more emphasis on competition and choice at the expense of encouraging different bits of the NHS to work together for patients. I can confirm that this is the case.
 
Thank you again for taking the time to contact me.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Ed Vaizey MP
Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries
Member of Parliament for Wantage and Didcot
27 Aug 2011

Help With Quackometer: Geek needed

At present, the 'Am I a Quack?' function is not working.

Part of how this function works is by using a Yahoo Pipe.

You can see the pipe here...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a77fae13005513c4a915c3a23a54e337

It would appear that Yahoo have made the Yahoo Search component unavailable after upgrading to the new V2 pipes engine.

So, my questions are:

1) Is this correct? Is there a way I can still use Yahoo Search (without paying lots of cash)?

2) Can anyone invent a pipe that takes a name as an input and returns a list of URLs of suspect web pages to analyse for quackiness. (You do not have to do the analysis - just return the URLs.)
8 Aug 2011

Some Amusing Homeopath's consider what to do with the ASA and skeptics

From the minutus discussion board...

From:

 timothymaccaw

Opting out is effectively what Uschi Kraus-Harper has done with her response to the ASA (see below) after their fatuous demand for unwarranted website changes because of their current homeophobe attitude. 

If I had a work website, I would be doing exactly the same. 

If they can't accept a) that the HoC S & T Committee Report on Homeopathy was a stitch-up job that has subsequently been totally discredited, b)that they are being manipulated by pharma/medical interests hostile to an effective, safer competitive medical system, c) that double blind RCTs are in most instances invalid for the purposes of testing the homeopathic healthcare method, 
that is their problem. 

Tim

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My last email from 5th July 2011

Dear Ms McFinn

Please note that I have clearly stated that I shall be happy to cooperate and to sign a pro forma letter if it contains complaints that are reasonable, i.e. that have been made because I have statements on my website that are in breach of codes of honesty, truthfullness, decency and legality. As it stands, the complaints all have to do with the debate about the efficacy of homeopathy.

I repeat that as practitioners of an established form of medicine, according to your own ruling, homeopaths do not need to provide proof of efficacy for their form of medicine. You are using the report of the Commons Science and Technology Committee as a legal reference when it is no such thing. It seems to me that you are breaching your own rules and overstepping your remit. You are trying to threaten me with your sentence "...inform them of the action we intend to take". The word harrassment comes to mind and I shall consider taking legal steps if this does not stop.

Ursula Kraus-Harper MA PhD RSHom
Registered Homeopath 


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It is a witch hunt!!!  I have changed my  website in accordance to advice from Society of Homeopaths. It’s to do with the wording. You are not allowed to mentions  homeopathy can help any sort of medical condition.  For example my website now states that  :-


<<Although a consultation is holistic, in that it treats the whole person, conditions I am frequently consulted for are:-    >>  Only then I have written the list of diseases. One or 2 have links to research or articles on them being cured but that is OK because I have not stated it on my website. On my First Aid page is written << The indications for the remedies below come historically from various homeopathic Materia Medica and the principles of homeopathy.>>What actually happened was that a skeptic site put out an order that members complain about the websites of local homeopaths. The ASA has been so overwhelmed by this happening that they put out this statement :- http://www.asa.org.uk/Resource-Centre/Hot-Topics/Homeopathy-complaints.aspx 

 

Rochelle Marsden Msc, RSHom, MNWCH, AAMET

Registered with the Society of Homeopaths

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>> The ASA have demonstrated a clear unwillingness to co-operate with or 
>> understand the complexities of CAM and are actively facilitating the hate 
>> campaign of groups of sceptics. Isn't it time we opted out of their 
>"authority" as a profession? 


>> however of we actively opt out as a group, and set up our own "self 
>policing", 


sounds like a plan. let's go for it.


Sincerely,
Didi Ananda Ruchira | Director | Tels: +254 (0)733-895466   /  +254 (0)723-869133  | www.abhalight.org 

5 Jul 2011

Proposed ASA "allowed wording" for advertising homeopaths' services.

Further, to my last blog post's report on a leaked email from the homeopaths showing how they are trying to agree some wording with the ASA as to how they can advertise their services, I can now reveal the first draft. I think it is pretty good.

The homeopathic consultation will involve you visiting my front room where we will have a chat, a cup of tea and some Hobnobs. You will discuss your vague sense of unease, a headache you had last week when the kids were playing up, and how you are frightened of the chemicals they put in everything these days. At the end of the session, I will give you a little tub of sugar pills, and we can both pretend that these are a magic remedy for all of life's problems. As long as we don't get carried away and start acting as if they can cure real illnesses, then all will be dandy. I will then tell you to come back in a few weeks if life is still a bit shit.

Oh, and you will give me £75, because I have a certificate and everything for this you know.

2 Jun 2011

Chris Ruane MP, ex deputy head, has doubts about germ theory

One of the readers of my blog wrote to his constituency MP about his concern for public funding of NHS. This is his MP's reply.

Quite an astonishing display of anti-intellectualism and ignorance. It might be worth pointing out that before Mr Ruane became an MP, he was a school teacher.

Dear Andrew,

I too have my concerns about certain types of homeopathic or alternative
medicines and treatments such as palmistry, astrology, and even aroma
therapy but I feel that western medicine has relied too heavily on the germ
theory of disease that illness and disease came from without and can be
treated from without  medicine or surgery.

I believe a good proportion of illness and disease can be effectively
controlled by tapping into and enhancing an individual's natural immune
system. That the patient is not such a passive receptacle for science,
medicine and surgery but can contribute to their own recovery. The illness
should be seen in the round that the psychological and social condition of
each individual patient are as important to an individual's recovery as
surgery.

Western medicine should not be dismissive of other practices such as
acupuncture, meditation but the balance needs to be struck.

Yours sincerely,

Chris

Chris Ruane MP
For the Vale of Clwyd
1 Jun 2011

Homeopaths discussing treatment for HIV

I thought I would share with you this little conversation I saw on a homeopathic discussion site. Just to remind you (if it were needed) how completely detached homeopaths are, how separated they are from any sense of ethics, and just how bloody dangerous their advice is.

 

On 2011-05-30, at 2:23 PM, Dale Moss wrote:

 

I have a couple of new patients who've survived several decades with HIV.  Both sought alternative treatment early on and did well for many, many years.  Unfortunately, both are now on HIV drugs and experiencing their toxic side effects.  

One is on Intelence and Truvada; he also takes Levothyroxine for hypothyroidism.  

My question is:  if he responds well to homeopathic treatment, is it possible to reduce the antiretrovirals he's taking?  Has anyone had experience doing this with HIV/AIDS patients?  

 

Peace,

Dale

 

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Hi Dale!

Have you not tried the Peter Chappel Protocol / Remedies?  Just wondering if they worked at all.

I've heard that African HIV is a different strain than American. Don't know if that's true or not….

Just curious….

 

Thanks for your feedback

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I just read Jeremy Sherr's article in last month's Interhomeopathy e magazine.  Jeremy has some interesting things to say about working with HIV positive kids and adults in his African clinic,

You might find some clues there.  http://www.interhomeopathy.org/letter-from-africa

Carolyn

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just a reminder that it has never been proved that HIV causes anything including AIDS

to keep equating them is to continue to further the lie

Yes there are AIDS and aids-like symptoms but get the HIV out of sentence as it is part of their lie and their drugs.

http://www.wellwithin1.com/AIDS.htm

treat the symptom picture as usual but as long as they are on these toxic drugs which make them ill, you probably will not get anywhere

Sheri

 

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I have not tried Peter Chappell's remedies.  My understanding is that Helios was supposed to be making them, but they're not listed on the Helios website -- and the link for ordering through Chappell's website doesn't appear to be working. 

Has Chappell pulled back to avoid the pharma hounds, or is there some secret portal I don't know for obtaining PC remedies?

Peace,

Dale

 

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Yes, I've read the piece.  It's fascinating, particularly what he says about CD4 counts going down after a good remedy, but the quality of the remaining cells being higher.  I've seen the neurological aspect in one patient (repeated cases of shingles), but not the fungal.  Yet.

The situation in Africa, however, is different from here.  Far fewer patients there are on antiretroviral drugs, and the general response of Africans to well-chosen remedies is amazingly quick, compared to the slower response we often see in highly suppressed* Western patients.

Peace,

Dale

 

* Note: 'suppressed'  is a homeopathic term for someone who has taken lots of real medication and thus has 'suppressed' their symptoms. A bad thing in their world.

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peter chappell also wrote of the easier time treating people in Ethiopia due to less body toxicity.

it was one of the reasons he chose to work in Africa as I recall.  for that matter it is similar to the quick

response from children and young animals who have not been toxified with years of contamination.

 

tanya

 

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I wonder whether environmental factors such as our EMF "soup" might be causing any interference, at least in some people?  Just something I've been wondering about.  

 

Shannon

 

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