Julian Whitaker's smear campaign and the alleged "NCAHF Quack List".(National Counsel Against Health Fraud)

Julian Whitaker, MD, of Newport Beach, CA, publishes a variety of health tabloids, magazines and newsletters in which he modestly bills himself as "America's #1 health advocate," "America's #1 health champion," and "the physician America trusts." Whitaker said in 1993 that his Health & Healing newsletter had 475,000 paid subscribers. Doctor-Bashing, Anti-Government Rhetoric. Whitaker's publications regularly bash standard medicine and the government regulators. Headlines cry out: "Forbidden Cures!"; "Censored Cures!...treatments organized medicine doesn't want you to know about"; "Miracles of healing censored by the medical establishment"; "cures that greedy drug companies and FDA bureaucrats don't want you to have." One Wellness Today cover picture shows Uncle Sam holding his hands over the eyes of a female who is holding a prescription container in her hands. The "cures" often turn out to be dietary supplements that Whitaker sells.

Champion of Maverick Medicine. Whitaker has taken up the causes of others in legal or ethical difficulty. In 1995, he viciously attacked the American Dietetic Association for its attempt to discipline Shari Lieberman for violating the ADA code of ethics.(a) More recently, he took up the cause of Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, who was on trial for violating a court injunction against the interstate distribution of his unapproved cancer remedy. Whitaker offers his personal inspection of Burzynski's facility as proof of its validity. Whitaker is Past President of the American Preventive Medical Association (APMA). (Ms. Lieberman a APMA board member.) APMA is largely made up of chelation therapy practitioners who lobby for laws that would strip medical licensing boards of their power to discipline maverick doctors who use chelation therapy for questionable, unapproved purposes. Such is done under the guise of patient freedom of choice, but, in actuality, would excuse dubious doctors from accountability. Whitaker writes pro-chelation therapy articles such as "why …