Re: ILENA ROSENTHAL beats quackbusters

For starters, it depends on what your mind is open to....not saying what your mind must believe, just saying the answer to your question may in part be dependent on what your mind is or is not open to at least taking in for consideration before judging, if in fact a judgement is something that you are eventually able to make based on what you were willign to consider.

In no particular order:

you might consider at least taking in some of what Tim Bolen has to say about Barrett and Quackwatch AKA quackbusters. The web is pretty much littered with what Bolen has to say, and Bolen is not the only one to lead the charges against Barrett et. al, but he was first and chief among them. Along the way he has alleged that Barrett was initially set up into operation via somewhat overt funding from various players in big pharma and other agencies of orthodoxy. There is also some evidence out there to be found that big pharma and their many contributors and accomplices have since taken their Barrett-sponsoring ways more covert than they had prior to this supposed exposure that started with Bolen;

you might consider taking in some of what Barrett has alleged. A high up over view of this generally reveals that if there is or was, ever, an alternative-minded health practitioner of some reknown, there is a real good chance that they have since been put on Barrett's supposed list of quacks. Linus Pauling is among such supposed "quacks". CAVEAT: there may in fact be a few genuine quacks on Barrett's ever growin list, but this seems more about tricks used to confuse the uninformed and less about actually making a legitimate effort to protect the uninformed. Depending on one's perspective, after a while this ever growing list that has supposedly come under the ever benevolent ever watchful eyes of Quackwatch seems to be more about smearing and defaming pretty much any practitioner who does not adhere to and thus cater to the alleged authority, dogma and views of establishement & orthodoxy. Depending on what your mind is open to considering, you may realize that the establishment has over the years become quite wide, deep, and murky, with many many interconnected partners who themselves come from most walks of high institutionalized life in our world;

you may also want to consider Barrett's recent lack (near zero) of success in pursuing his quackbusting lawsuits as played out in variousu of this nations's courts of law during, conservatively, just the past 2 to 3 years.

In the end, it's for you to decide what Barrett really is, is not, is about, is not about. Likewise it's for you to decide what Barrett supporters are and are not about, as well as Barrett critics.