NCAHF Newsletter articles from November 1992

NCAHF Newsletter archives from November 1992

The political destruction of responsible medicine. (appointment of Robert Jay Rowen to Alaska's medical board)
November 1, 1992... The political destruction of responsible medicine took a giant step forward in Alaska when Gov. Hickle appointed Robert Jay Rowen, MD, to the state medical board. This added to Alaska's systematic dismantling of consumer protection which...

Reader's Guide to "Alternative" Health Methods.
November 1, 1992... Reader's Guide to "Alternative" Health Methods, published by the American Medical Association (1993), is written by two AMA library officials, Stephen Barrett, MD, and NCAHF president William Jarvis, PhD. The 370-page book cites and analyzes...

Cultologists sue social science associations. (Margaret Singer, Richard Ofshe, American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association)
November 1, 1992... Two UC Berkeley professors who study cults have filed a RICO lawsuit against the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association alleging that several top executives attempted to destroy their careers. Drs....

Cancer centers file libel suits against MD critics. (Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Charles Moertel, Arnold Relman, Victor Herbert, Roger Winn)
November 1, 1992... The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a subsidiary of the American International Hospital of Zion, Illinois, has filed libel suits against four physicians quoted in a June 21, 1992, Dallas Morning News article that...

Top ten supplements.
November 1, 1992... According to a health food industry report, 75 million Americans take a daily dietary supplement, and supplement sales account for 37% of all health food store sales (a whopping $1.4 billion). The top ten best sellers include 11 (two are tied...

The Amish: vulnerability of the "gentle people" to quackery.
November 1, 1992... Despite the fact that the Amish are a people living apart from the 20th Century, modern quackery has managed to find them! As a scholar interested in the behavioral psycho-social dynamics of quackery due to case reports of Amish people who...

Consumer deception in vitamin advertising.
November 1, 1992... Flintstone vitamins tell kids that their product helps them grow big like the dinosaurs; Centrum Plus tells oldsters that its formulation incorporates the latest science on special needs of aging; General Nutrition Centers advertise that its...

Hydrogen peroxide product sales stopped. (Food and Drug Administration orders Vital Products to stop selling)
November 1, 1992... On March 10, 1992, a Wisconsin judge enjoined Vital Products, Ltd of Muskego, WI, and its president Conrad LeBeau, from promoting and selling hydrogen peroxide (H202) products for treating serious diseases such as AIDS and cancer. In 1989, FDA...