"Dr." Barrett (a retired shrink) appears to be PRO drugs, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery... all the very invasive and expensive stuff. He appears to rail against vitamins, herbs, new ideas, mind power (a shrink who does not believe in the power of suggestion????)... He is PRO aspartame, PRO cow's milk and dairy, and seems to see no validity in the ONLY thing that www.DORway.com promotes: "If one has medical problems that their doctors cannot seem to cure (or they are too young to have old-age related problems) *AND* they consume products laced with aspartame, then try the FREE at-home 60-day NO-aspartame self-test... and simply observe the results". I grant that there are a lot of hucksters in this world out to seperate the trusting victims (and investors) from their money. They seem to be growing numbers, methods, and crass. From my vantage point... as a cancer-riddled victim, it would seem that PREVENTION would be the most significant function of any REAL doctor. Why, then, does Barrett support the likes of David Emory of Urban Legends, Christine Gorman of TIME, the ADA, and others who ignore prevention? Why does he ignore the simple cause and effect proof that can be easily obtained via the PROCESS OF ELIMINATION of substances from a diet? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barrett's buddies: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeopetition/signers.html FDA Homeopathy Petition List of Signers, August 1994 Seth Asser, M.D., pediatrician, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California; Coordinator, NCAHF Task Force on Children's Health Threats Robert Baratz, D.D.S., M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Stephen Barrett, M.D., author, editor, consumer advocate. Recipient, FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service. Paula Benedict, M.P.H., R.D., Public Health Nutritionist, San Bernadino County Dept. of Public Health Wayne Bidlack, Ph.D., Professor, Food and Human Human Nutrition, Iowa State University John Bolton, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California Medical School (San Francisco) Michael Botts, Esq., former Assistant Attorney General of Iowa, specializing in health-fraud cases Bruce Brown, former FDA public information officer Paul E. Brown, M.D., internal medicine specialist, Lakeview Clinic, Waconia, Minnesota John E. Dodes, D.D.S., President, New York Council Against Health Fraud; Lecturer, School of Dentistry, State University of New York/Stony Brook Donald Driscoll, Esq., public interest attorney, Oakland, California John H. Ellis, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of History, Lehigh University Daniel B. Futch, D.C., M.P.S., vice president, National Association for Chiropractic Medicine; vice president, Orthopractic Manipulation Society, U.S.A. Martin Gardner, science writer, former staff member, Scientific American Saul Green, Ph.D., research biochemist, former researcher, Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., Professor of Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Recipient, FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service Wallace Janssen, FDA Historian; former director of public information for the FDA Leon Jaroff, contributor to and former senior editor (science) of Time magazine; founder and former managing editor, Discover magazine William T. Jarvis, Ph.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University; and President, National Council Against Health Fraud Manfred Kroger, Ph.D., Professor of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University Paul Kurtz, Ph.D., Chairman, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Marvin Lipman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College; chief medical advisor, Consumers Union; former member of two FDA advisory committees William London, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Health Education, Kent State University James A. Lowell, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology, Pima Community College Paul MacCready, Ph.D., engineer, inventor, board chairman, Aerovironment, Inc. Gabe Mirkin, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown Medical School Grace P. Monaco, J.D., specialist in health law; former member of FDA advisory committee Merlin Nelson, Pharm.D., M.D., former Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Wayne State University School of Pharmacy Robert L. Park, Ph.D., Executive Director, The American Physical Society; former chairman, Physics Dept., University of Maryland James Randi, author, lecturer, investigator of psychic/paranormal claims Jack Raso, M.S., R.D., editor/publisher, Nutrition Forum newsletter John H. Renner, M.D., President, Consumer Health Information and Research Institute David B. Roll, Ph.D., Acting Dean and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah College of Pharmacy Paul Saltman, Ph.D., Professor of Nutrition, University of California, San Diego Wallace Sampson, M.D., F.A.C.P., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; member, Cancer Advisory Council for the State of California; Board Chairman, National Council Against Health Fraud. Marvin J. Schissel, D.D.S., dentist, private practice, Woodhaven, New York Elie Schneour, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director, Biosystems Research Institute, San Diego, California Varro E. Tyler, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacognosy, Purdue University College of Pharmacy Lewis Vaughn, author and magazine editor Mahlon W. Wagner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, State University of New York/Oswego Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., President, American Council on Science and Health James Harvey Young, Ph.D., Professor of History, Emory University; former member of FDA National Advisory Food and Drug Council. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeopetition/homeopetition.html Petition Regarding Homeopathic Drugs Docket # 94P-0316/CP 1 Dockets Management Branch, Food and Drug Administration Room 1-23 12420 Parklawn Rockville, MD 20857 The undersigned, as agent for 42 individuals, hereby submits this petition pursuant to FDA laws and regulations that require all commercially available drugs to be proven safe and effective and be adequately labeled for their intended uses. Action Requested The FDA Commissioner should initiate a rulemaking procedure, similar to the OTC Review, to require that all OTC homeopathic drugs meet the same standards of safety and effectiveness as nonhomeopathic OTC drugs. In the interim, the Commissioner should issue a public warning that although the FDA has permitted homeopathic remedies to be sold, it does not recognize them as effective. Statement of Grounds Although homeopathic products are not recognized as effective by the scientific community, the FDA has tolerated their marketing because a provision of the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act recognized substances listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia as drugs. However, nothing in the law prohibits the FDA from requiring homeopathic remedies to be proven effective to remain on the market. FDA Compliance Policy Guide 7132.15, issued in 1988, states that "nonprescription homeopathics may be sold only for self-limiting conditions recognizable by consumers . . . [Their] labeling must adequately instruct consumers in the product's safe use." However, the guide warns that compliance with its requirements "does not establish that [a product] has been shown by appropriate means to be safe, effective, and not misbranded for its intended use." The FDA's laissez-fair regulatory policy has enabled dozens of companies to market hundreds of products with claims (often simply in the name of the product) that are unsubstantiated. All of these products are misbranded because they do not indicate on their label that they can remedy nothing. Nor do they state how much of any ingredient the product contains in a way that the average consumer can understand. Nor can adequate directions for use be written for products that don't work. Because the FDA permits their sale, consumers are being misled into thinking that the remedies are effective, not only for symptomatic relief but for the treatment of serious diseases. Products designated as 24X, 12C, or higher, should contain no molecules of the original substance from which they are prepared. Yet they are being marketed as though they are potent remedies. One homeopathic manufacturer even advertises that "unlike most over the counter medicines, Medicine from Nature works in harmony with the body's natural defenses and gets to the cause of your illness or discomfort." [See Exhibit A] Many other manufacturers have made similar claims. Exhibit B provides an overview of the homeopathic marketplace. Exhibit C is the National Council Against Health Fraud's position paper. Environmental Impact None Certification We certify that this petition includes all data, information, and views upon which this petition relies, and that we know of no reliable scientific data or other information that are unfavorable to this petition. Agent for Petitioners Stephen Barrett, M.D. P.O. Box 1747 Allentown, PA 18105 (610) 437-1795 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation? Get rid of all herbs, vitamins, homeopathic products and procedures, and perhaps even mind and spirit control. In this respect... he has a lot of powerful company including the FDA, their many buddies on CODEX (working with the WORLD drug companies to make all herbs, vitamins, teas, etc. BY PRESCRIPTION ONLY). While the world sleeps... things like food control (Monsanto and buddies), drug control, gun control, money control, and more... ARE happening. Wake up, American and the world... and DO something about it!