IAHF List: Charley Pixley just sent me this. I monitor Quackwatch from
time
to time, but if a few of you'd please help me with this I'd appreciate
it.
Sometimes theres information on Barrett's site that's worth knowing
about
from an intel standpoint. He's a bonifide turd from the word go. I
once did
an op on him and had him going for a few months while I pretended to
be a
college student just wanting to pick his brain re orthomolecular treatment
for schizophrenia. The goal was to seriously piss him off. I succeeded
by
ignoring everything he told me after wasting a lot of his time. Then
I sent
him a paper I'd already written before ever having spoken with him
after
he'd sent me all his books in an effort to "help" me write my paper.
I
hadn't asked for the books, and he later tried to _BILL_ me for them!
Then,
when I wouldn't pay, since he was angry when I didn't write the story
he
wanted me to write, he started hounding me for the money, so I told
him I'd
tossed the books he'd sent me out onto Interstate 287 in New Jersey
where I
used to live so that the 18 Wheelers could run over them! (I didn't
really
do that, I still have the books, but was he ever angry!!!)
All the files which the AMA's CCHI used to keep as a reference source
to
help them smear alternative medicine are now in Stephen Barrett's basement
in Allentown, PA. When the chiropractors won their anti trust suit
against
the AMA, the CCHI was "broken up" by the courts... but in reality...
it
just went underground... and is now being run via Barrett, Jarvis,
Renner,
and by Victor Herbert, that low life nebbish twit. He lies and says
he was
a Green Beret, but he aint nuthin' but a jive ass TURKEY! If anyone
would
like directions to Barrett's house in Allentown, PA just let me know-
cause
I know 'zactly where the bastard lives!
>Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:23:49 -0500
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