Talk:Stephen Barrett

added a search box for the talk page and the archives

since there are so many archives, and since new editors are told to check past discussions, I thought a search box would make it much easier to do so. --stmrlbs|talk 01:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The archives are mostly nonsense and I don't see any new editors who are having problems with searching the archives. QuackGuru (talk) 01:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I just tried out the search box; it seems to work properly and and be quite helpful - why would we remove such functionality? --CliffC (talk) 03:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I fixed the template so that it works for topics with multiple word names (like "Stephen Barrett"). It is very easy to add, and it sure makes it easier to check on past discussions. --stmrlbs|talk 05:04, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh, now that *is* useful. Much better than trying to remember the syntax every time I want to search all subpages. I took out the Template: part as unnecessary (though not worth changing unless one is making an edit anyway. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, 2/0. I keep forgetting that Template: is the default, therefore I don't have to specify it. When I was testing it in my own userspace, then I had to specify where the template was. But, yes, this sure makes it a lot easier, imo - especially for new editors who are not familiar with how to use the prefix part of the Wikipedia search. --stmrlbs|talk 03:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Racing horse versus Donkey

If you call the donkey a racing horse, than Stefan Barrett is a psychiatrist.

Stefan Barrett the industry crackpot

It is the time to correct the article about Crackpot Stephen J. Barrett ! The most reliable websites about that crackpot are by the real consumer watchdog Tim Bolen:

• Bolen Report

• Quackpot Watch

Delete all prayers about that con artist!

Tell the truth

Crackpot, a  well known American con and clown, is claiming to be retired American in reality unlicensed or de-licensed psychiatrist, author, co-founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), and the webmaster of Quackwatch

• Quackpot Watch

http://bolenreport.com]"When it QUACKS like a DUCK, and walks like a DUCK, it is Stephen Barrett well known Quack! "

• Tim Bolen report

This article requires plenty of time to expose the con and quack Stefan Barrett and Ronald Gotts (also known as Ronald Gott)

The Quackbuster Conspiracy - The crackpot you never new James Carter's, MD's authoritative book "Racketeering In Medicine," published by Hampton Roads, carefully explains the "Quackbuster Conspiracy." The "Quackbuster Conspiracy" was started shortly after the American Medical Association (AMA), the rquivalent of Doctors Labor Union, a non scientific professional organization with the sole purpose of promoting medical professions and careers and lobbying their priorities in Washington, lost the court battle to the Chiropractors in a case begun in Federal court in 1976. The Federal judge ordered the AMA's covert operation shut down - and leave the Chiropractors alone. The AMA files, library, etc., ended up in Stephen Barrett's 1,800 square foot basement in Allentown, PA. Barrett, and his minions, had the common sense to stay away from criticizing Chiropractors for quite some time, but never for ever.

Barrett, a pseudo-psychiatrists self-proclaimed "Consumer Advocate", is a well known mentor of all medical disinformation cases and many scams of specially chemical industry. For years, Barrett has touted himself as a medical expert on ‘quackery’ in health care sector and has assisted in dozens of court cases as an alleged self proclaimed expert. He also was called upon by the FDA, FTC and other governmental agencies for his purported expertise. He was the subject of many magazine interviews, including Time Magazine and featured on television interviews on ABC’s 20/20, NBC’s Today Show[[ and PBS.

He has gained media fame by his outspoken vocal disgust and impatience over natural or alternative medicine as a valid health care alternative, including his criticisms of two time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Barrett has also filed numerous lawsuits against attorney Negrete who in court exposed him, as well as many practitioners including Dr. Hulda Clark the uthor of The Cure for All Diseases and The Cure for All Cancers, in San Diego, California federal court. Stephan Barrett is also an ex associate of another previously exposed in court an insurance industry fraud master abusing a title of Doctor Ronald Gotts. Gotts became famous for , selling fraudulent medial reports he never read with his mass produced signature and stamp of his signature. Those reports as exposed on Date line NBC, were written by journalists, students, and house wives using specially developed computer "templates" by insurance industry with the purpose to defraud claimants.

Stephen Barrett a con claiming to be psychiatrist Court Case: Stephen Barrett, M.D. vs. Tedd Koren, D.C. and Koren Publications, Inc. Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County for the State of Pennsylvania Court Case No.: 2002-C-1837 Contact: Carlos F. Negrete LAW OFFICES OF CARLOS F. NEGRETE San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Phone: 949.493.8115 Fax: 949.493.8170 email: mediarelations@healthfreedomlaw.com mediarelations@negretelaw.com http://www.healthfreedomlaw.com http://www.negretelaw.com

Dr. Tedd Koren, DC. Phone: 800.537.3001 267.498.0071 Fax: 267.498.0078 http://www.korenpublications.com

The trial started on Monday, October 10, 2005 and ended on October 13, 2005 Barrett was represented by local Allentown attorney, Richard Orloski. In a stunning development, Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Judge J. Brian Johnson on Thursday, October 13, 2005, tossed out nationally known self-proclaimed consumer medical advocate Stephen Barrett’s defamation lawsuit just minutes before it was going to be considered by a local jury.

At that trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett was forced and conced that he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the certification exam. During the course of his examination, Barrett also had to concede his ties to the AMA, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Founded by a nonprofit donations from political chemical lobbyist with the help of INSURANCE INDUSTRY, that con became "expert Witness" in many court cases, where he sold fraudulent medical opinions for fees. Barrett was exposed in many cases in court as a mental case of disbarred allegedly psychiatrist, and greedy con who knowingly and consciously selling for profit fraudulent medical opinions injured many people in his carrier.

• Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases

He runs a number of websites dealing with alleged medical quackery and health fraud. Impersonating Consumer Advocate as the foundation for his tax exempt status he allegedly focuses on consumer protection, medical ethics, and scientific skepticism.

Allegedly numerous sources have cited Quackwatch as a useful source for online consumer information.

Biography of the con master

Barrett was in 1957 attendant who claim to graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and allegedly completed his psychiatry residency in 1961. In 1967 and 1968 he followed part of a correspondence course in American Law and Procedure at La Salle Extension University (Chicago).

In addition to webmastering his websites, Barrett is a co-founder, vice-president and a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). He is an advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). From 1987 through 1989, he taught health education at Pennsylvania State University.

Barrett is the editor of his Prometheus Books.

Barrett has received a number of awards from lobbyists in recognition for his fraudulent activities as a consumer protection work against quackery. Quackwatch received the award of Best Physician-Authored Site by MD NetGuide, May 2003.

"probably began when I took a college course in medical statistics, and learned what makes the difference between scientific thought and poor reasoning. Medical school brought me in touch with the rapid and amazing strides being made in the understanding and treatment of disease. My anti-quackery activities have intensified my interest and concern in distinguishing science from pseudoscience, quackery and fraud."

Consumer dis-information

Main article: Quackwatch

The Quackwatch website is Barrett's main platform of disinformation describing and exposing what he and other insurance industry contributors would like to consider to be quackery and as alleged health fraud. The website is part of Quackwatch, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that raudulently claims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct." >

Barrett has become a "lightning rod" based on medical fraud for alleged controversy as a result of his criticisms of alternative medicine theories and practitioners. Barrett says he does not criticize conventional medicine because that would be "way outside [his] scope." He states he does not give equal time to some subjects, and has written on his web site that "Quackery and fraud don't involve legitimate controversy and are not balanced subjects. I don't believe it is helpful to publish 'balanced' articles about unbalanced subjects."

Barrett fraudulently as always, claim to be strong supporter of the HONcode and he allegedly has made efforts to improve compliance with its rules and to expose those who abuse it. In a whole "Special to the Washington Post", extensive coverage of his views on the subject were provided, including his scams, fraudulent opinions and criticisms of many named abusers.

A large number of practitioners and specially supporters of alternative medicine charge Barrett and Quackwatch with plain fraud for it's support of chemical industry as the main source of funding his fraudulent claims of "Advocacy to Consumers" with the sole purpose to destroy the confidence in a right choice of alternative medicine. His report has been cited in later articles, including one which concluded that such testing was "unreliable."

Scams attacks orchestrated by Crackpot Stefan Barrett:

• Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions - Barrett SJ, Jarvis WT, Kroger M, London WM (2006). (textbook, 8th ed.) McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-248521-3

• Dubious Cancer Treatment - Barrett SJ & Cassileth BR, editors (2001). Florida Division of the American Cancer Society

• The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America - Barrett SJ, Jarvis WT, eds. (1993). Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-855-4

• Health Schemes, Scams, and Frauds - Barrett SJ (1991). Consumer Reports Books, ISBN 0-89043-330-5

• Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods - by Zwicky JF, Hafner AW, Barrett S, Jarvis WT (1993). American Medical Association, ISBN 0-89970-525-1

• The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry Is Selling America a Bill of Goods - Barrett SJ, Herbert V (1991). Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-909-7

• Vitamins and Minerals: Help or Harm? - Marshall CW (1983). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN 0-397-53060-9 (edited by Barrett, won the American Medical Writers Association award for best book of 1983 for the general public, republished by Consumer Reports Books).

Collections of articles:

• Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis, 2007, edited by Bryan Farha, University Press of America, ISBN 978-0-7618-3772-5. Three of the eighteen chapters are written by Barrett.

See also

• Ronald Gotts
• Alternative medicine
• Burden of Proof
• Consumer protection
• Debunker
• Defamation
• Evidence-based medicine
• National Council Against Health Fraud
• Pseudoscience

External links

• Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases
• American journalist] Tim Bolen Report
• Quackpot

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Does anyone know the source of this middle initial? It's not listed on his Quackwatch bio, can we put the reference next to the initial? Whatever source it came from, maybe it has the full middle name? Tyciol (talk) 21:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)