QuackBuster Assaults: Clark, the One that Worked in Reverse...

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

Monday, April 9th, 2007

The US "quackbuster" operation, suffers humiliation almost daily these days. When you listen to their leadership discuss this problem they inevitably blame one person for their woes - scientist, and author, Hulda Regehr Clark PhD.

76 year-old Clark, an independent scientific researcher and author of six best-selling books on health care and what's wrong with it, is clearly the most hated person in quackbusterland. Why? Is it because they can't beat her down, can't stop the sale of her books, can't have her imprisoned, can't destroy her reputation, can't frighten her into submission, and can't destroy her work through innuendo and smear tactics?

Yes, those are reasons, and good ones, but they aren't what creates the vehemence and the spittle spewing from "quackbuster" lips when they discuss Hulda Regehr Clark PhD.

It's the fact that EVERY time they attack Clark her world popularity increases. Her book sales increase. Her invitations to speak at world conferences increase. More people quote her. More people want to meet her.

So I laugh at their antics... and almost encourage them to do more...

Her books include: "The Cure for HIV/AIDS," "The Cure for All Cancers," " The Cure For All Diseases ," "The Cure for All Advanced Cancers," "The Prevention of All Cancers," and the "Syncrometer Science Laboratory Manual."

The "quackbuster" operation is slick - and well designed by a very good social manipulator who understands propaganda and public relations "black-ops." When the New York ad agency, that actually runs it, takes on a project for a client, they can show that they have, for years, maintained a successful track record. They can point, with pride, at earlier campaigns where they totally ruined their targets. They can show current projects in operation right now, that are working just as planned.

Current projects? Sure. Everybody saw the "Vitamin E kills people" campaign. It was saturating the media. Of course it wasn't true - Vitamin E doesn't kill people. What the ad agency did for their secret client was simply to hire some third-rate hack to write a poorly written paper supposedly "reviewing the literature" on Vitamin E. Then they released the fake "study" via a massive, and expensive, public relations campaign, to all of the US media.

That's how it works.

But why isn't it working against Hulda Clark ?

Why is it that when Hulda Clark was arrested in September of 1999, hauled across the US, from San Diego to Nashville, Indiana, in her orange bathrobe, in the backseat of a Brown County Indiana squad car, that her popularity increased, and her book sales, the following year, increased by 60%? Good question.

Why is it that when the quackbuster "haters" infiltrated the Clark internet discussion groups and railed against her to her followers that her followers treated them like misbehaving children, spanked them, and told them to "go take a nap?" Good question.

Why is it that when the quackbuster "haters" infiltrated the Clark internet discussion groups and railed against her to her followers that the numbers of followers increased? Good question.

When you meet her, and hear her speak, you find out why. This brilliant, but simple person, lives her Mennonite heritage. Helping others is her creed. Clark is real - the "quackbusters" are a pimply construction.

When I first met Hulda Clark in late 1999, I'd just been hired in my role as a "Crisis Management Consultant." One of the first things I did was to set up her internal support network - those that would help carry her through the financial and emotional trauma that was coming her way. I organized a meeting of some of her supporters in Indiana and about 150 people showed up, on short notice, at the home of a City Council member of one of Indiana's larger cities. My intention was to just let Clark bask in their clear, and obvious, emotional, and political, support. But Clark saw the situation differently, and proceeded to give them a two-hour demonstration of her latest scientific findings - and you could here a pin drop during the whole period.

After Clark's demonstration people were thanking her for her courage, her work, etc. One couple came up to Clark, and the woman introduced her husband to Clark, saying that "he wouldn't be alive today if we hadn't bought your book and did what you said." I was close by watching and instantly noticed a discomfort in Clark's body language - so I went on alert. I went to her immediately and said "Dr. Clark, I need to speak to you privately for a moment. It's urgent," and immediately moved her into a different room. There I asked "what happened there? Why were you suddenly uncomfortable? Was there something I missed?" Clark looked me in the eye and said "I'm uncomfortable with people thanking me for things. I'm a scientist. I'm supposed to do this sort of thing. They treat me like a hero, and I'm just doing the right thing."

I responded to Clark by asking her two questions "Are you glad that what you wrote in your book actually worked, and saved that man's life?" She said "of course I am." Then I asked "are you curious about how well your method worked, and if there were any practical problems that came up?" She said "yes, I am." So I said "let's go back in there and get that scientific feedback you need for your next book..." She did exactly that and had the audience enthralled for two more hours as they exchanged experiences and observations. In effect, she had gained 150 new research assistants.

As you can tell - I like Hulda Clark. She and I have been friends ever since that time in Indiana.

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