Subject: Re: Quackbusters, Ilena Rosenthal, and Jan Drew ...... and mercury
amalgams
From: Ilena Rose ilena@san.rr.com
Date: 10/31/2004 8:20 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <k14ao0hlde8t5goiqjntv5tqhufujcdei3@4ax.com>

Thanks for thinking of me, Joelly.

I'm not mentioned in the very informative message you just re-posted
from Tim Bolen.

Poor Joel.

Here is the info from Barrett/Polevoy VS Ilena:

www.humanticsfoundation.com/quacklibelsuit.htm

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:45:54 -0500, Joel M. Eichen
<joeleichen@yahoo.com> wrote:

Quackbusters, Ilena Rosenthal, and Jan Drew ...... and mercury
amalgams

Schwarzenegger Attacks "Quackbusters"...



Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen



Saturday, October 30th, 2004



The "quackbuster" operation, run out of a New York ad agency, isn't
doing well in California... to say the least.



Many of my readers will remember, with amusement, the pieces I wrote
about the "quackbusters" being humiliated in California when they sued
over forty victims, using California Business & Professions Code
17200.  The NCAHF v. King Bio case was a classic.  It was there that
top quackbusters Stephen Barrett and Wallace Sampson were declared in
a three Judge Appeals court decision to be "biased, and unworthy of
credibility."



Neither can we forget that it was, in another of those cases, that the
NCAHF was ordered to pay over $100,000 in legal fees to one of their
victims - and they haven't paid it yet.  It was during that period
that the NCAHF's top attorney, Morse Mehrban, declared "I consider
suicide daily..."



And, it isn't over for the quackbusters...



California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined several citizen's
groups in taking a formal stand against certain sleazy "quackbuster"
activities.  The Governor, along with a citizen's group, "Californians
to Stop Shakedown Lawsuits (CSSL), is promoting California ballot
Proposition #64, described by Schwarzenegger to accomplish the
following:



""Proposition 64 will stop the legal practice of shakedown lawsuits,
in which private lawyers file suits without any client or any evidence
of harm. This turns lawyers into bounty hunters, stalking innocent
small businesses that create jobs and opportunity in California."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger."



The "quackbuster's" flagship, the self-styled National Council Against
Health Fraud (NCAHF), just a few years ago,

stalked, and sued, over forty innocent victims in California using the
"shakedown" lawsuit principal.  According to delicensed MD Stephen
Barrett, the NCAHF's Vice President brags "NCAHF sued about 40
defendants, and I have also been involved as a consultant or expert
witness in similar cases filed by other parties. Overall, at least ten
have been settled..."



The San Diego Union-Tribune says of the "quackbuster's" attempted
shakedown:

"Proposition 64 would lower the cost of doing business in California
by making much needed changes in Section 17200 of the state's Business
and Professions Code, the so-called unfair competition law. The often
misused law allows any person, claiming to act on the public's behalf,
to haul a business into court alleging an unlawful or fraudulent act –
even if the plaintiff has not been directly harmed by the purported
wrongdoing.

Avaricious trial lawyers have made a cottage industry out of unfair
competition litigation, shaking down thousands of small businesses
throughout the state."

The LA Daily News said...

"End legal extortion - Vote yes on Prop. 64

In an era of extreme litigiousness and frivolous lawsuits, Proposition
64 would enshrine into California law this simple bit of common sense:

You can't sue someone unless you have a valid claim.

Hard as it might be to believe, in California -- and in California
alone -- that's not already the case. Under the state's Unfair
Business Competition Law, freelance trial lawyers can sue businesses
for allegedly unfair practices -- even if no one has actually been
harmed or is likely to be harmed by the practice in question."



Ballot Proposition #64...



"Shakedown" lawsuits, of the type exploited by the "quackbusters" have
so angered Californians that Ballot Proposition #64 has gained the
support of almost EVERY trade association in the State.  The
membership list of the "Yes on 64" campaign is impressive.  The
Co-chairs include:  

John H. Sullivan, President of the Civil Justice Association of
California
Allan Zaremberg, President of the California Chamber of Commerce
Peter Welch, President of the California Motor Car Dealers Association
David Houston, Chairman of the Coalition for Reform of Frivolous
Lawsuits
I'm not at all surprised that the people of California would feel the
same way I do about "quackbuster" activities.  Are you?



Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

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..."

For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine"
go to: 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.

For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to
http://www.bolenreport.com.