I just checked She's not listed as a doctor in California.

Does anyone have her bio?

Here's another article from the San Diego Tribune

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030129-9999_1b29quack.html

FTC sues over health claims





By Penni Crabtree
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

January 29, 2003

The Federal Trade Commission has filed fraud charges against a San Diego company and its Swiss counterpart for allegedly making false health claims about a device marketed as a cure for AIDS, cancer and other serious diseases.

The federal agency Monday said it filed a lawsuit against the San Diego-based Dr. Clark Research Association, its associated Swiss company, Dr. Clark Behandlungzentrum, and their owner, David P. Amrein. The lawsuit alleges that Amrein made unsubstantiated advertising claims about the medical benefits of two devices, called the "zapper" and the "Syncrometer."

The companies promote and sell devices and herbal products developed by Hulda Clark , a San Diego woman who operates out of a Tijuana alternative medicine clinic.

Clark and her son, Geoff, also separately own businesses in Chula Vista and San Ysidro that cater to patients who buy Hulda Clark 's books and inventions that she claims can diagnose and cure most diseases. Neither of the Clarks are named in the FTC lawsuit.

Amrein, a Swiss citizen, did not respond to e-mails or telephone calls to his San Diego or Switzerland offices. Hulda Clark could not be reached for comment.

Geoff Clark said his Chula Vista company, the Self Health Resource Center, sells his mother's inventions and other products to Amrein and other Internet marketers.

He declined to discuss how much revenue the center generates through sales to Amrein, but added that "it's not so significant that I'd be in financial trouble if he were no longer a customer."

According to Clark's books, which have reaped millions of dollars in sales, her Syncrometer device diagnoses the "true" cause of all diseases, while her zapper, a battery-operated machine, cures by eliminating parasites and toxins with a mild electric current.

Howard Beales, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said his agency is targeting "unscrupulous marketers" who use the Internet to prey on the sickest and most vulnerable consumers.

"Zapping outlandish promises that appeal to health and safety concerns of U.S. consumers is one of our top priorities," said Beales. "Unfortunately, questionable products abound on the Web."

Quackwatch, a consumer watchdog group, said Amrein is a prominent player in a network of marketers who peddle Clark's products and books.

"Clark's ideas are promoted by a network that is clearly designed to market products without getting her into legal trouble, but many of those in the network have broken the law," said Stephen Barrett, spokesman for Quackwatch. "Amrein is a major figure in that network."

Among the items Amrein sells through his Dr. Clark Research Association Web site is a "21-day Program for Advanced Cancers" for $1,850. According to the Web site, the program produces "amazing results in hopeless cases . . . that are nothing short of miraculous." A three-month Diabetes Recovery Program, complete with zapper, sells for $800, while a zapper alone sells for $159.

The FTC's lawsuit, filed in Cleveland federal court, seeks a permanent injunction barring Amrein and his companies from making fraudulent advertising claims about Clark's inventions, which are sold on the Internet and through mail and phone order.

The agency is also seeking refunds for consumers who ordered the products and "disgorgement of ill-gotten monies," according to the lawsuit.

Last year, the FTC settled fraud charges with another company, Blaine, Wash.-based Western Herb, that used the Internet to sell the zapper and other products touted by Clark.

Clark's Tijuana-based clinic, Century Nutrition, was shut down in early 2001 by Baja California health officials for operating without a license. It was later allowed to reopen but was prohibited from offering alternative treatments.

Geoff Clark declined to say whether the Tijuana clinic is open or if his mother is working there. However, a staff member at the Chula Vista center said the clinic is open and Hulda Clark is working there, and in a statement on Hulda Clark's Web site, she says that most of her time is "spent at Century Nutrition clinic in Mexico or writing up new findings."

Jesus Octovio Montano, who oversees hospitals and clinics for the Baja California health department, confirmed that the clinic is open. But he said it is not licensed to practice alternative medicine of any kind, and that Clark cannot work in Mexico, even as a consultant.



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Staff writer Sandra Dibble contributed to this report.
Penni Crabtree: (619) 293-1237; penni.crabtree@uniontrib.com

So those around you are saying that Dr. Clark is Alternative Medicine's worst enemy. That's because you have carefully selected those persons out of the general population to listen on this topic.

If you want an objective view, why only listen to them? Unless of course they are needed to buttress the view of Dr. Clark that you already have. You share your misconceptions with them and they with you. In ordinary terms you correspond with or hand out with people who agree with you.

When people report their pain and complaints dissipate gradually as they apply Dr. Clark's principles (using biophsics, chemistry, cleansing, frequencies...) on a continuously steady basis, you don't want to believe this reality so you run to your friends and/or their acquaintances to hear the opposite about her. So then you feel better.

That the doctors you quote don't know how to apply those same principles according to her method doesn't appear to bother you, as long as they say, "She's wrong." These individuals who say she is bad news for Alternative Medicine do not practice in the field of Alternative Medicine, do they? So how would they know she is bad news for Alternative Medicine? Did you ask them by what secret pipeline to the Truth did they get this information? Got any supporting evidence for the claim you made? Why would someone who read one of her 500 page books on her research suddenly dismantle all the new knowledge they got into their head, because you wrote a couple lines about the Alternative Field being damaged (by her knowledge)? You wrote a whole 6 lines.

Both the doctors you want to use an an authority on this matter and Dr. Clark, all went to respected institutions of high education, each in his or her own country. They all studied the same principles of Science at major public universities and graduated from them. Perhaps they each have their own specialty, but it is all based on the same principles of science. It is a major point of a University education to teach research and innovation (variety) and to demand innovation from its graduate students. Just because Dr. Clark applied these same scientific principles in a different and new way than the doctors you are familiar with, does not make her wrong. To say someone else is wrong just because that person wants to apply the scientific method in a way that is different (from theirs) but equally valid, is egotistical. Data decides how valid your theories are.

By the way, you never defined what you meant by doctors who practice both Alternative and conventional medicine. This does not give the person reading your post any context by which to interpret what you said and be able to believe you. Doctors know Alternative is popular so even if they weren't trained that way in their medical school most consider themselves as practicing both Alternative and conventional if they prescribe a bottle of vitamins or two. People, such as you for example, will go to them that way and its better for the pocketbook.