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"Fraud. xv Chapter One A CHILDREN'S CRUSADE We are witnessing a crisis of a magnitude and type never seen before. - William Carey M.D. On the afternoon of March 21, 2000, fourteen-year-old Matthew Smith was having a good time in his aunt's basement, skateboarding with two of his cousins. Suddenly he fell off the skateboard and collapsed to the floor, where his frightened cousins say he started moaning and turned blue. Paramedics were called immediately but were unable to revive him. Matthew was taken to Royal Oak William Beaumont hospital where he was pronounced dead." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "When the other, non-psychiatric faculty members of the nations medical schools, say nothing of this fraud and poisoning, they are accomplices. Chapter Five THE DSM: DANGEROUSLY STRANGE MANEUVERS We do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction. - Final statement of the panel from the National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on ADHD, November 18,1998 Near the end of the 17th century Jonathan Swift published a satiric piece called A Modest Proposal." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "It is 100% fraud. HOW A REAL DISEASE IS DISCOVERED AND VERIFIED I have over 35 years experience as a front-line adult and pediatric neurologist. In addition to maintaining a full time practice I also conducted research and discovered and verified real diseases. In order to make any kind of legitimate medical diagnosis, evidence that meets proper scientific standards must exist, something that has yet to happen for a single diagnosis of ADHD. As I explained above, symptoms or complaints alone do not a disease or diagnosis make. Sooner or later a physical abnormality must be demonstrated." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Without identifying an abnormality ADHD can never rise above the level of speculation or fraud. Legitimate scientific speculation it is not. Another favored strategy of those who invent diseases like ADHD is to write of the pathology of it, even using "Pathology" as a title, as though one had been proven, i.e., a physical or chemical abnormality, and then commence a discussion of current hypotheses while saying nothing concrete about pathology or abnormalities." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"As per our meeting yesterday, I am summarizing information available to me supporting allegations of a long pattern of fraud by Monsanto Corporation. The fraud concerns 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (dioxin) contamination of Monsanto's dioxin-exposed workers. Significance of Monsanto's Dioxin Fraud Monsanto has in fact submitted false information to EPA which directly resulted in weakened regulations." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"In 1912 the Shirley Amendment added the prohibition of fraudulent therapeutic claims, although it was never clear how "fraud" could be proved. So it remained caveat emptor until 1937, when the Massengill Company of Bristol, Tennessee, began shipping gallons of elixir of sulfanilamide. Sulfanilamide was an early "miracle" antibiotic, a sulfa drug that was insoluble in water. Massengill's chief chemist found it to be highly soluble in ethylene glycol ("antifreeze" today), but he didn't realize that ethylene glycol was a poison until many people died. The chemist, not Mr." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"He is the author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Make "Patients" Out of Normal Children. www.adhdfraud.com SYD BAUMEL. a medical writer, is the author of Serotonin: How to Naturally Harness the Power Behind Prozac and Phen/Fen, and Natural Antidepressants. www.mts.net/~baumel ROBERT BERNSTEIN is an educational therapist with a private practice in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has a master's degree in special education from Teacher's College of Columbia University." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"As per our meeting yesterday, I am summarizing information available to me supporting allegations of a long pattern of fraud by Monsanto Corporation. The fraud concerns 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (dioxin) contamination of Monsanto's dioxin-exposed workers. Significance of Monsanto's Dioxin Fraud Monsanto has in fact submitted false information to EPA which directly resulted in weakened regulations." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"To understand the emergence of suggestion, we must first bear witness to the partial secularization of the demonic possession narrative, as it was transformed into Mesmer's ritual of animal magnetism, and then follow the debunking of Mesmer's cures as products not of fraud but of the imagination—a capacity of the mind that can lead to illusory experiences." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the years that have passed, we have stopped using the term "quack," except in cases of obvious fraud. Other terms, ones which do not prejudge, better describe those who practice outside the generally approved boundaries of contemporary medicine. But the problem remains: How do we tell who is who and what is what? It's an issue that's still debated. What ever is meant by alternative medicine, there is no doubt about its widespread use. According to a 1997 survey of the United States, more than four in ten Americans used some form of alternative therapy, an increase from one-third in 1990." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Fraud has also slipped through in part because editors have long been loath to question the authors. The peer-review system of medical journals, which is supposed to be the iron-gate for keeping away fraudulent medical studies, is now more than questionable, given the recent disclosures of flawed published studies. There is more reason to be cautious about taking medical research too seriously. In 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed more than 3,000 academic scientists and found that 64 percent of them had financial ties to drug corporations." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In the highly charged political atmosphere of the Reformation, when virtually all aspects of Catholic authority and practice were under scrutiny or attack, people began to raise the specter of fraud. Accepting in principle the possibility of demonic possession, some commentators suggested that not every case of apparent possession should be taken at face value. In the late sixteenth century, the prominent case of one Marthe Brossier in France would prove particularly significant in raising the profile of this new skeptical stance." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The most lasting criticism of Tribonian is not bad writing or severity, but fraud. Tribonian's charge was emphatically not the creation of an entirely new legal code. On the contrary, in order to command the respect of the citizenry at large and the legal profession specifically, the new Codex needed to trade on the already existing deference granted to the earliest jurists. Thus, a typical entry from the Digest reads: 1. Theft is a dishonest handling of a thing in order to gain by it, or by its use or possession. Such conduct is against the very law of nature. 2." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"There is no way to begin to estimate the number, but undoubtedly there are many unrecognized cases involving embezzlement, fraud, and other white-collar crimes perpetrated by individuals driven into manic states by psychiatric drugs. THE ENTERTAINING HOME INVADER MOST OF THE DRUG-INDUCED psychiatric disturbances in this book seem to materialize out of nothing. There's no indication in the person's background to account for a "nervous breakdown," "going crazy," or "losing it," other than the drug reaction itself." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "After the judge threw out the verdict and declared the case a settlement, Eli Lilly appealed the judge's decision up to the Kentucky Supreme Court, which concluded that Eli Lilly had "manipulated" the judicial system and further opined that the drug company might even have committed "fraud":14 A careful and thoughtful examination of the entire record in this case indicates that some sort of settlement was reached before the case was submitted to the jury. . . ." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Alternatively, were they the product of outright fraud? Or again, were they perhaps the result of unwitting self-deception? No other narrative of modern mind-body medicine is as fundamentally conflicted about its own epistemological and ethical message as this one, and its history is the primary reason. Possession, exorcism—and their first skeptics To see how this all came to be, we need to begin with a phenomenon that has been documented in societies all over the world: possession. In the 1960s, anthropologist Erika Bourguignon analyzed available records on 488 different societies." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"One of her longtime physicians, however, is so upset, even frightened—because medical science says that MS cannot be reversed or cured—that he dismisses her from his office, calling her a fraud.1 þ A young honors mathematics university student undergoes a brain scan. The doctor is shocked when the scan reveals that the young man has almost no brain! His cortex—the part of the brain that is the seat of intellect, perceptual awareness, and memory—is barely a millimeter thick, having been squashed to almost nothing because of undiagnosed hydrocephalus." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"We are not dealing here simply with a desire to expose fraud, as in the case of Marthe Brossier; nor are we dealing with skepticism toward a particular explanatory framework that could be replaced by another, better one, as in the case of Gassner. Instead, the second commission's conclusions inaugurate a style of skepticism we have not yet seen: skepticism toward the psychological. What I mean by this, to begin, is that the commissioners' skepticism was not directed toward the phenomena themselves." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"According to David Fontana, who witnessed several of Cardoso's experiments, the possibility of fraud or interference by other persons can be effectively ruled out. The various forms of ITC include radios, TVs, telephones, computers, and other technical devices. Mark Macy used a device called "the luminator" in combination with an off-the-shelf Polaroid 600 camera and stock film and has obtained thousands of pictures of "spirit faces" that appear on the film in his presence and sometimes also in the presence of a person to whom a given spirit face was known." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"According to the National Council Against Health fraud, Mindell's doctorate is from the University of Beverly Hills, "an unaccredited school which lacks a campus or laboratory facilities." I also tried contacting Mindell at Pacific Western University in Los Angeles, where he is, according to his bio, a professor of nutrition. When I called, the university claimed that, according to their files, no Dr. Mindell had worked there, nor had it ever offered any classes in nutrition. Venomous debates have sprung up online regarding the juice's putative benefits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"What had been regarded as huckster ism and fraud in 1906 had begun to look like sound public health policy by 19 73. The American Heart Association, eager to get Americans off saturated fats and onto vegetable oils (including hydrogenated vegetable oils), was actively encouraging the food industry to "modify" various foods to get the saturated fats and cholesterol out of them, and in the early seventies the association urged that "any existing and regulatory barriers to the marketing of such foods be removed." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Then the fraud scheme collapsed and with it much of the power of the church. Today, the pharma business uses the same fraud scheme. It tries to sell the 'key to health' to millions of people and takes away billions of dollars in return for an illusion: the deception that the pharmaceutical industry is interested in your health."15 The cancer industry is among the most aggressive areas in the medical arena and the FDA will swoop in with automatic weapons into doctors' offices if they step out of line with acknowledged oncology protocols." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Four days after publication, Maddox himself arrived with what Benveniste described as a scientific 'fraud squad', composed of Walter Stewart, a well-known quackbuster, and James Randi, a professional magician who tended to be called in to expose scientific work that had actually been arrived at by sleight of hand. Were a magician, a journalist and a quackbuster the best possible team to assess the subtle changes in biological experimentation, wondered Benveniste. Under their watchful eye, Elisabeth Davenas performed four experiments, one blinded, all of which, Benveniste said, were successful." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In this case, there was a serious lack of candor with the trial court and there may have been deception, bad faith conduct, abuse of the judicial process, or perhaps even fraud. The Supreme Court authorized Judge Potter to go forward with a full hearing to determine the specifics of the secret deal. The hearing would likely have made public the amount of money that had been paid to the plaintiffs in settlement. Numerous plaintiffs were involved in the Wesbecker case including those who had been injured and their surviving families." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Their task was to review all of the SRI remote viewing research, and to do so they were given unannounced drop-in privileges to SAIC, to guard against fraud. All concluded that the research was impeccable, and half actually felt the research demonstrated something important.2? Nevertheless, to this day, the American government has released only the Semipalatinsk study, one tiny portion of a mountain of SRI documents, and then only after a relentless campaign by Russell Targ." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"You feel like a fraud and end up hoping that someone will rescue you. If you can't manage your day-to-day life, it makes it a whole lot harder to entertain the idea of going after dreams and goals. We have already established that addressing your self-doubts, cultivating satisfying relationships, and pursuing your dreams are critical components to ending your dependence on food as a reward. So let's look at ways that you can manage your life better so that you can feel confident and start doing some of the things that you'd really like to be doing." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "If he was known and watched he might be found out to be the fraud he was sure he was. As long as he stayed encased in his armor, without any dialogue with Harriet that might change his self-perceptions, he was bound to experience a series of endless disappointments, his emotional hunger would remain enormous, and he would overeat to reward himself for what he couldn't fix. If Brad doesn't confront his serial womanizing with therapy or real introspection, all of his doubts will keep being confirmed, and ultimately he will become a caricature." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Tapes were made of the clicks, which were copied and stored, again to eliminate fraud. Between one and six days later, volunteers were asked to listen to the tapes and attempt to mentally influence the gerbils to run faster than normal, or the people to run into the beam more often than usual. Success would be measured by a greater number of clicks than usual. Gruber carried out each type of trial 20 times, and in each instance compared the volunteers' tapes with tapes made during sessions when the animals and humans were not subjected to the remote influence." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "After making copies of this master tape (again, with no one listening), he locked the master tape away, to eliminate the possibility of fraud, and gave medical students the copies a day later. The volunteers were asked to listen to the tape and send an intention to have more clicks in their left ear. Schmidt also created control tapes by running the audio device but not asking anyone to attempt to influence the left-right clicks. As expected, the right and left clicks of the controls were distributed more or less evenly." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Every day you see advocates of the alternative position challenged as being unscientific and the purveyors of fraud. But what you have here is an industry making about one-fourth the amount of money as all the herbs and organic produce, all of the natural food stores and the vitamins and minerals that are sold, everything that we call the health movement. Electroconvulsive therapy makes that amount of money, and kills one in ten thousand people." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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