The Cincinnati Beacon
Heimlich Drowns in His Own Aspirations
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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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