- Everybody in the North American Health Freedom Movement
knows who the "quackbusters" are. It's been said, often, "If
you're not on Stephen Barrett's dubious "quackwatch" website,
then you're NOT IMPORTANT in REAL health care. The more space he gives
you, the bigger the threat you are."
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- But the question that's always there is "who's winning
the war - us, or them?"
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- Well, believe it or not, the US Government did a survey
through the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2001, about our war,
and the results will ASTOUND you.
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- So, let's ask the obvious questions, the ones the NSF
was finding the answers for, and have the NSF study answer them...
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- The Questions and the Answers...
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- (Q) How big an effect is the New York ad agency, and
it's array of lower "quackbuster" minions (i.e.; NCAHF, quackwatch.com),
having on America's thoughts about Alternative Medicine?
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- (A) The NSF says "In response to the 2001 NSF survey,
an overwhelming majority (88 percent) agreed that "there are some
good ways of treating sickness that medical science does not recognize."
(See appendix table 7-58.) The American Medical Association defines alternative
medicine as any diagnostic method, treatment, or therapy that is "neither
taught widely in U.S. medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals."
However, at least 60 percent of U.S. medical schools devote classroom time
to the teaching of alternative therapies, generating controversy within
the scientific community."
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- (Q) But the drug companies have INCREASED their TV advertising,
the "quackbusters" have infiltrated all of the "AltMed"
internet discussion groups, Barrett and his cronies have quadrupled the
number of anti-health websites, and the quackpots at FTC have INCREASED
their attacks on AltMed. Isn't this having an effect?
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- (A) The NSF says "Nevertheless, the popularity of
alternative medicine appears to be increasing. A recent study documented
a 50 percent increase in expenditures and a 25 percent increase in the
use of alternative therapies between 1990 and 1997 (Eisenberg et al. 1998)
A large minority of Americans (42 percent) used alternative therapies in
1997 and spent a total of at least $27 billion on them."
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- (Q) Are the "quackbusters" winning ANYWHERE?
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- (A) The NSF says "the authors of the study reported
that the use of alternative therapies was: at least as popular in other
industrialized nations as it was in the United States."
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- (Q) Who, exactly, in the US is into Alt Med these days?
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- (A) The NSF says "more popular among women (49 percent)
than among men (38 percent) and less popular among African Americans (33
percent) than among members of other racial groups (44.5 percent); and
higher among those who had attended college, among those who had incomes
above $50,000, and among those who lived in the western United States."
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- (Q) But the "quackbusters" rail at herbal medicine,
massage, megavitamins, self-help groups, folk remedies, energy healing,
and homeopathy. Are they having an effect?
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- (A) The NSF says "Furthermore, among the 16 therapies
included in the study, the largest increases between 1990 and 1997 were
in the use of herbal medicine (a 380 percent increase), massage, megavitamins,
self-help groups, folk remedies, energy healing, and homeopathy. [60]"
And they also say ""therapeutic touch," was taught at more
than 100 colleges and universities in 75 countries."
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- (Q) But the quackbusters call anyone who believes in
AltMed "stupid." Are they right? Is it just s few dumb people
who believe in AltMed?
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- (A) The NSF clearly shows in their report appendix table
7-58 http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/append/c7/at07-58.pdf" just
the opposite. In fact, the study shows that 88% of all adults believe
in AltMed, 90% of all Males, 88% of all Females, 83% of all "less
than high school graduates," 89% of all High School Graduates, 92%
of college graduates, and 89% of those who are very interested and very
well informed on the issue.
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- (Q) So who IS buying into the quackkbuster scam?
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- (A) According to the NSF Study, less than 1% of the
population.
- In Conclusion...
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- Despite all the money being funneled into the project
through the New York ad agency, America isn't much buying into the big
lie. Big pharma's not getting their money's worth.
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- Stay tuned...
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- Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate
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- This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter"
is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth.
Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities
of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters,"
and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all
health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer
health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities,
battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health
Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details
"who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating,
when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."
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- For background information on the "Battle between
Health and Medicine" go to: <http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm>http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm.
A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website
<http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm>http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.
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- For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to
<http://www.bolenreport.com>http://www.bolenreport.com.
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