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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Heimlich Drowns in His Own Aspirations
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Dr. Robert Baratz with a response to the recent series at the Dayton Daily News about the Heimlich medical fraud stories.
Henry Heimlich says he has proof his ‘maneuver’ works for drowning. Who does he think he is kidding?
This dwarfs Nixon’s lie when he claimed he had a secret plan to get us out of Viet Nam.
After 30 years of telling the media he has the proof Henry still hasn’t produced the proof. He’s had long enough.
It’s time to stop this dangerous, delusional notion.
In the past the story was, “the dog ate my homework.” Now Heimlich claims he doesn’t have a dog, homework, an “organization” or “resources” to get out the proof. Perhaps then he could explain why and how he has raised much more than several million dollars for his Heimlich Institute over the past few decades, can afford a publicist to attack his critics, and yet doesn’t have the resources to show his data?
He’s been asked countless times to support his statements and produce the data to support them, the same standard applied to any doctor or scientist. Yet no data have been forthcoming. No detailed case reports have been produced, despite Heimlich writing about them, discussing them, and promoting his unproven methods as if they were proven.
The only reasonable and likely conclusion is that the data don’t exist.
Additionally, research by many authors of the alleged case reports Heimlich has put forward of drowning cases shows they don’t pass the smell test. He has consistently failed to show even the basic information to match the confirmable facts of the cases.
Thus, after 30 years we have discovered the answer to “Where’s the beef?” The answer is that there is no beef and was no beef, but only a story about a bull. All that could be produced was fabrications consistent with bull droppings.
Heimlich’s claims meet the definition of health fraud, the promotion of unreliable and dangerous health information as if it were true.
Robert S. Baratz, MD, PhD, DDS
President, National Council Against Health Fraud
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13 Sep 2006 at 08:19 am | #
Robert S. Baratz, MD, PhD, DDS
President, National Council Against Health Fraud
Who is this guy, the self appointed president of a council run from his couch ?
I’m not certain if he is philosophically speaking (PhD), if he is disappointed in his leadership as a doctor (MD), or if you don’t agree with his position that he will knock your teeth out (DDS).
This guy almost has as many credentials as Nate Annoy. I wonder if he flips burgers on the side ?
Sounds like this guy is trying to make a name for himself off the back of Heimlich just like the bad habot wants to resurrect his standing off the wet-back issue.
I suppose, just because this guy writes an article without any link to his council or peer reviews of the council’s work, we are just suppose to submit to his credibility the way the Dean wants us to submit to his credibility with his so called immunotherapy concealed report.
PATHETIC !
13 Sep 2006 at 03:33 pm | #
Are you serious?
If you have questions about NCAHF, then do some Googling!
http://www.ncahf.org/
NCAHF is a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. Our positions are based upon the principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. We advocate: (a) adequate disclosure in labeling and other warranties to enable consumers to make truly informed choices; (b) premarketing proof of safety and effectiveness for products and services claimed to prevent, alleviate, or cure any health problem; and, (c) accountability for those who violate the law.
13 Sep 2006 at 04:10 pm | #
Dr. Baratz has been widely quoted in numerous major league publications, including these recent anti-quack articles in Business Week and the Los Angeles Times. The National Council Against Health Fraud goes after bad and unscrupulous doctors, often working in conjunction with law enforcement.
Dr. Baratz has been widely quoted in articles which have raised questions about Dr. Henry Heimlich’s various forays into quackery, such as this recent Boston Herald story.
Since Dr. Baratz provided a copy of Dr. Wulsin’s Heimlich malariatherapy report to the Dean, presumably the National Council Against Health Fraud is interested in the matter.
13 Sep 2006 at 04:43 pm | #
i>http://www.ncahf.org/
Officers and Board Members (updated 10/7/02)
Hey, this group is way ahead of the curve !
Their information is so current that their officers and Board Members were update 10/07/02.
I didn’t find one investigation that lead to enforcement ?
Most material is widely held positions and I can’t find where they have taken one doctor on for malfeasance, misfeasance.
But, hey in 2000 and 2001 they were able to tell us to watch out for phony weight loss claims !
Eureka !
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13 Sep 2006 at 04:53 pm | #
NCAHF’s activities and purposes include:
Investigating and evaluating claims made for health products and services.
Educating consumers, professionals, business people, legislators, law enforcement personnel, organizations and agencies about health fraud, misinformation, and quackery.
Providing a center for communication between individuals and organizations concerned about health misinformation, fraud, and quackery.
Supporting sound consumer health laws
Opposing legislation that undermines consumer rights.
Encouraging and aiding legal actions against those who violate consumer protection laws.
Sponsoring a free weekly e-mail newsletter.
I did not realize that Heimlich was bottling his immunotherapy to sell to the public.
Sounds like a basically unknown trying to leach off the Heimlich fame !
13 Sep 2006 at 05:02 pm | #
<i>"It is hocus-pocus,” said Robert S. Baratz, a Boston physician and
dentist, who has appeared as an expert witness in 18 cases against
holistic practitioners before state dental boards. In all the cases, he
said, the dentists either were reprimanded or lost their licenses.
Keep chewing Dean, your stories are really becoming something one can sink their teeth into !
Was Heimlich injecting malaria into snake sacks and then having the snakes inject the treatment via their fangs ?
Oh my, no wonder you are calling the treatment snake oil medicine !
13 Sep 2006 at 07:41 pm | #
Don’t waste your time arguing with the bold typer. Democrats can be just as blind and dumb as Republicans.
14 Sep 2006 at 07:49 am | #
Ha ha, wasting time? I am here at the library!
I am speaking to my hand, fools! The Dean can’t even dance the polka let alone hear the sonic trails of beef jerky that thrill me and will bring down those who fail to heed!
Real reporters wear cargo pants while those who question Wulsin should find their way to the public toilet stalls. Truth is my handmaiden!!!
Isn’t it obvious where the lowly fig-men of your imaginations huddle? Ha, I say again, ha! Also, ha!
Now I must go, carrying the torch of freedom to the library men’s room! All has been made clear and I have set free the minions of my disco soiree!
I am Borat!
14 Sep 2006 at 08:06 am | #
Democrats can be just as blind and dumb as Republicans
It would appear that the greens can’t see the forest for the trees !
Don’t know about the Dim’s or wRong wingnuts, but, the Independents refuse to take things lightly. We don’t buy mission based reporting !
Once we were blind, but, Now we See !
14 Sep 2006 at 09:43 pm | #
Well, the html impersonator strikes again !
I hope no one whacks their system since their IP whois information is now on public display !
You have to hand it to the Heimlich conspiracy nuts, they will do anything to anybody who won’t participate in their hairy “FAR-OUT” rhetoric !
PATHETIC !
They’re barking up the wRong tree !
But, once again, we slide them the cookies they ordered !
Eat up, they’re hand made !
Hey, who is that blogger typing and tapping their foot over there !