http://ilena-rosenthal.blogspot.com/2007/06/anti-alternative-quackbusters-have.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/284400/antialternative_quackbusters_hav
e_giant.html?page=2

Recent rulings in Amsterdam, Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of
California are heavy blows to the Quackwatch anti-chiropractic and
anti-alternative medicine organizations.

After years of being labeled a"quack," and defamed and ridiculed
professionally, Dr. Maria Sickesz won a great victory in Amsterdam,
Holland early June 2007.

The Netherlands Appeals Court ordered the "Vereniging tegen de
Kwalzalverij" (Association Against Quackery, which is the Dutch
version of the so- called "Quackbusters" ) to cease and desist from
using the demeaning, subjective and pejorative term "quack." This
group is linked extensively on their website with the American
"quackwatch" headed by Stephen Barrett, who also has suffered several
legal defeats recently.

The Justices recognized that this group's affinity for giving
demeaning labels to doctors with whose practices they disagreed was a
way of shutting down emerging science.

They were also ordered to publish a public retraction in two widely
circulated newspapers. It has been estimated this will cost them
around thirty thousand euros (~US$40,350) and has been written that
this will bankrupt this highly controversial association whose work is
attempting to destroy alternative practioners in Holland.

Dr. Sickesz developed a kind of healing called orthomanual therapy
which integrates chiropractic practices. For several decades the
quackbuster organizations around the world have waged legal and public
relations wars against chiropractors and other non traditional
practitioners, demonizing them with their biased campaigns.

In June, for the second time, Barrett lost a case in a Pennsylvania
Appeals Court against a local and respected chiropractor in his
hometown of Allentown, PA.

Suing Dr. Tedd Koren has definitely backfired on the longtime head of
the quackwatch empire. During this case, Barrett had to reveal that he
had failed his psychiatric medical board tests and was never board
certified for the decades he practiced.Board certification protects
patients. Shortly thereafter, Barrett made a public announcement that
after 40 years, he was leaving Allentown.

Barrett Vs Rosenthal was decided in November, 2006 against Barrett and
his co-plaintiffs, Terry Polevoy and Christopher Grell. Though Barrett
had claimed he was defamed and libeled, the Supreme Court Justice's
final words in the decision were, "As the lower courts correctly
concluded, however, none of the hostile comments against Dr. Barrett
alleged in the complaint are defamatory."

In May, 2007, Barrett and Polevoy were ordered to post bonds of over
$433,000 in this case.

In an earlier court loss, Barrett and fellow "National Council Against
Health Fraud" member, Wallace Sampson, were ruled to be biased and
unworthy of credibility in a case they lost against King Bio, a
homeopathic remedy company.

In 2003, they also lost to Botanical Laboratories, and were ordered to
pay a significant judgment. The Judges understood the NCAHF mission
and wrote: Appellant (NCAHF) believes that no one should be allowed to
market homeopathic remedies.

Soon thereafter, NCAHF's California license was suspended for nearly 4
years, until early, 2007.