ACTION ALERT

Please click here to send a message to your Member of Congress ... the FDA MUST Thoroughly Examine Safety Evidence & Must Stop Ignoring Evidence that Silicone Implants Are Not Safe!

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Loss of Helen Wattier, beloved Support Group Member

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Keeping Abreast of
Parasitic Implants!
BreakForNews.com, 8 Feb, 2006 by Fintan Dunne, Editor

Ilena is interviewed and discusses the dangers of breast implants and the resulting industry backed Smear Campaign against her. Click here to read about Stephen Barrett and Christopher Grell's loss and the third plaintiff, Terry Polevoy, whose case against her is now in the Supreme Court of California.

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PLEASE TELL FDA THAT RESEARCH IS URGENTLY NEEDED ON TOXIC PLATINUM SALTS IN
SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS

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Bravo to Dr. Zuckerman for her excellent presentation to the Canadian Parliament. Click here for full text.

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Dr. Feng on Implant Capsule Removal thanks to Rosie and her Support Board

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Residual Capsule and Intercapsular Debris As Long Term Risk Factors.

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Aetna Policy on Explant (breast implant removal)

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The perverted irony of Health Canada's Special Access Programme Pays for breast implants, denies AIDS drugs

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The PR Secret War Against Activists by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton

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Female Senators Caution FDA on Breast Implants

Greetings from somewhere on God's Green Planet.

Week of July 4, 2007

There are untold thousands of us who feel that the FDA caved in to the silicone industry, by granting questionable 'safety approval' for an unproven product. We believe this will endanger the lives of millions of women, who oft are denied health insurance because of their implants.

The Humantics Foundation message mirrors that of Dr. Sidney Wolfe's of Public Citizen. Bravo to his strong stance on the dangers of breast implants. 

Silicone gel breast implants most defective medical device ever approved by the FDA ...Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Public Citizen

We also thank Kim Gandy, for her powerful support to re-opening the question of implant safety.

FDA Approval of Dangerous Implants Follows FDA Pattern of Favoring Money and Politics Over Science   ~ Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women

To listen to Fintan Dunne interview Kim Gandy, President of NOW; Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Scot Glasberg; & Ilena Rosenthal, Director, Humantics Foundation, please click here.

It's been a wild couple of weeks since the Supreme Court of California announced their unanimous decision in my favor in what is now known as Barrett Vs Rosenthal on November 20, 2006.

Click here for California Supreme Court documents (opens large pdf file)

The 7 Justices ruled that the re-posting of potentially libelous material on the internet is not actionable.

For the last years, ISP's and bloggers and others have been threatened and been sued for the words of someone else ... and this decision sets precedence behind these types of suits, typically filed to silence critics by intimidating them with expensive, energy consuming litigation. Barrett was one of the most egregious, ever sending off missives claiming to have been 'defamed' and filing and threatening lawsuits for contrary opinions to his.

Further, from the Supreme Court decision, I quote:

As the lower courts correctly concluded, however, none of the hostile comments against Dr. Barrett alleged in the complaint are defamatory.

Almost immediately, their revenge began.

Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, a non-biased resource posting only facts.

After receiving messages that the Healthfraud Team on Wikipedia false "facts" about this case, I began correcting the errors and total Barrett bias in reporting.

What I've learned since Wednesday is that Barrett's Team is even attempting to bully their viewpoints onto Wikipedia ... changing history to make them better and censoring the facts.

This includes Barrett's losing lawsuits, his mad attacks against alternative practictioners and practices, his own NCAHF, suspended by the State of California etc.

Paul Lee is definitely not 'unbiased' in any manner ... he and Barrett co-promote each other's websites, blogs, and lists. Click rag-tag posse link below.

Terry Polevoy immediately posted more theats that he intended to sue me again. On one of his latest rants about me, he claims that I am in exile.

He also obsessed about an interview about the case on Break for News. His silly comments about me make him look even more ridiculous. For those interested in either of these interviews, links are below.

Breast Implants: The Smoking Gun To listen to Fintan Dunne interview Kim Gandy, President of NOW; Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Scot Glasberg; & Ilena Rosenthal, Director, Humantics Foundation, please click here. Victory for Freedom of Speech To hear Ilena interviewed on Break For News by Fintan Dunne on her victory over the Quackbusters on this Freedom of Speech Issue

Willa Nidiffer, began circulating webpages claiming that I had filed for bankruptcy, and that I had been arrested in San Diego, CA. She calls herself Barrett's Parrot.

This mirrors her behavior when Barrett and Grell lost all of their appeals in October 2003. At that point, they began circulating pages claiming that I had been arrested for selling crack cocaine to children in San Jose, Costa Rica. She is one of the Posse members and calls herself "disinfoagent@disinfo or nanaweedkiller."

Concurrently, other members of this Posse, notably Paul Lee, began to rewrite case history on Wikipedia. I'm working with others to get the facts accurate while Lee is attempting to control all the information around the case by throwing me off Wikipedia.

The Posse members on Usenet went wild in their attempts to change history. Mark S Probert, a former attorney disbarred by the Supreme Court of New York in 1992, was the most visible. Peter Moran, from the Healthfraud list, repeated and repeated and repeated the disinformation that Barrett and Polevoy had been libeled ... exactly opposite of the court ruling.

Christopher Grell, the attorney and a plaintiff in this case, had the poor legal judgement to falsely publish that my comments had been proven to be libelous, in direct contrast to every ruling. Very poor judgment he made.

Click here for more on other Barrett quackwatch lawsuits and operations.

From the Electronic Frontier Federation (EFF): California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Free Speech on the Internet

San Francisco - In what is a victory for free speech on the Internet, the California Supreme Court ruled today that no provider or user of an interactive computer service may be held liable for putting material on the Internet that was written by someone else.

Today's ruling affirms that blogs, websites, listservs, and ISPs like Yahoo!, as well as individuals like defendant Ilena Rosenthal, are protected under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA), which explicitly states that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

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L.A. Times, November 21, 2006: Ruling limits Internet liability

Excerpt: Rosenthal did not return a call for comment Monday but said on a website that she was gratified by the ruling. She described the litigation as "exhausting" and said it was "intended to silence my voice and exhaust my resources."

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October 30 , 2006 UPDATE

Good news about Abraham! Click here for more on this incredible teenager who stood up to Con Med for his rights!

Black Letter Day. Health Canada Caves to Breast Implant Makers and endangering the health of generations of Canadian women.

Rounding up outlaw 'net quacks since 2000

Click above link to see the three losing plaintiffs, Terry Polevoy, Stephen Barrett, and Christopher Grell teamed with their "rag-tag posse." This team was formed to harass and attack on the internet, we defendants of approximately 40 SLAPP suits filed around the country by the so-called quackbuster team.

It is my understanding that in six years of various litigation, they have won none of these suits, designed to waste the resources of the defendants and divert their energies to defending themselves.

One defendant, Dr. Mercola, had two suits filed against him by Barrett ... the first Barrett dropped days before the hearing, causing enormous expense to Dr. Mercola. The second time Barrett sued him, Dr. Mercola settled so that he could continue his work instead of spending his time defending himself. Even after receiving money from Dr. Mercola, Barrett's team continued their vile public attacks on him.

FDA Warning Confirms ADHD Drugs Cause Sudden Death, Heart Attack and Strokes

JAMA refuses to exclude authors who hide financial ties to drug
companies

How Bill Frist and the Drug Lobby Covertly
Bagged a Liability Shield

Monopoly medicine squashes the alternatives

Are Antibiotics Killing Us?

Kids’ Use of Antipsychotic Drugs Rises

Mobile phones tumour risk to young children

Mammograms, X-rays may boost bre ast cancer risk by 250%

Chest X-ray for under 20s may double the risk of breast cancer

Not a PR Job for the Faint of Heart

APCO Worldwide: PR firm for both Merck and Dow Corning

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