Complaint Review: Dr Stephen Barrett MD Quackwatch www.quackwatch.com www.quackwatch.org - Chapel Hill North Carolina

The person who complained about me does not understand what he has experienced. Testing the urine after a chelating agent has been administered will give a result that is falsely elevated. My article at http://www.quackwatch.org/t explains this in detail.

Debbie, I am still confused.

This Dr. never actually treated you? 

You reported him here because you do not agree with an article he wrote? 

If you believe MS has no cause or cure, then YOU'RE the one who believes in aliens. There is a mountain of evidence out there and numerous success stories and case histories to suggest otherwise - people who have found the cause of their symptoms and treated it for their MS never to return. You clearly haven't done your research. The autoimmune theory is a fallacy, false propaganda - the body doesn't attack healthy tissue. MS is simply inflammation of the nervous system - find the cause, which is always external, and remove it and you're cured. It's been proven over and over with the cause being anything from food allergies to vitamin deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity to misaligned vertebra.

If your sister-in-law still has MS after all these years, it's because she has done nothing to help herself and believes the so-called "experts" - the MDs who are the REAL quacks and promote the lie that it is an incurable lifelong condition to perpetuate the profits of the greedy pharmaceutical companies.

If you believe MS is incurable, then you're the one who believes in aliens. There is a MOUNTAIN of evidence out there and numerous case histories that prove otherwise - people who have found the cause and cured themselves for it never to return. The body doesn't attack healthy tissue - MS is simply inflammation of the nervous system by something else; find the source of the irritation and remove it and you're cured, CONTRARY to what the MDs (the REAL quacks) tell you. Your sister-in-law obviously believes these quacks and has done nothing to help herself.

Dr Barrett's article is the bogus one, not me and he tries to use his status of MD to rip off everyone by making them believe his so-called "facts" and as I said, maintain the status quo so that doctors can continue to do their "real job", which is not to cure their patients but to make money for the pharmaceutical drugs companies by diagnosing people falsely with lifelong "incurable" conditions. There is another report about Dr Barrett & Quackwatch on this site making exactly the same claim.

One of the principles of naturopathic medicine is "doctor as teacher" and I know a lot about MS and heavy metal toxicity, urine provocation testing and chelation therapy because my Canadian ND honoured this. Dr Barrett is a LIAR when he tries to claim that a) a blood test is the appropriate method for heavy metal toxicity and b) the only thing necessary if this is positive is to remove the source of the exposure. Heavy metals are not present or visible in the blood; they sit/hide in fatty tissue and have to "provoked" out with a chelating agent so that they can be measured in the urine, which needs to be collected for several hours and sent to a specialist lab like Doctor's Data Inc. Also, removing the source of the exposure does not repair damage already caused.

Another principle of naturopathic medicine is "first do no harm" and chelation therapy is a lot less harmful and far more beneficial than the methylprednisone steroid treatment, beta interferon and baclofen drugs that MDs give to people with MS, which just make them even worse.

Re how I got such high levels of heavy metals, I already explained this in the report. Also, we all accumulate metals as we are exposed to them all the time in our surroundings. Most of the time our bodies can cope with these until we are emotionally and/or physically traumatised and our immune systems break down. This is what happened to me.

First of all, there is no such thing as 'Alternative Medicine'.  There is Scientific Medicine and 'everything else. 

A huge part of Scientific Medicie relates to preventative medicine contrary to what these quacks try to tell you.

I have a sister-in-law with MS and over the last 20 years it appears to go away for long periods of time and then returns.  Quack medicine uses these normal remission periods as proof their silly treatments work.  They don't. 

Forget these quacks and see a real doctor and accept and deal with real siruations and treatments.

You probably believe 'them aliens' make crop circles too.

Dr Barrett's article is the bogus one, not me and he tries to use his status of MD to rip off everyone by making them believe his so-called "facts" and as I said, maintain the status quo so that doctors can continue to do their "real job", which is not to cure their patients but to make money for the pharmaceutical drugs companies by diagnosing people falsely with lifelong "incurable" conditions. There is another report about Dr Barrett & Quackwatch on this site making exactly the same claim.

One of the principles of naturopathic medicine is "doctor as teacher" and I know a lot about MS and heavy metal toxicity, urine provocation testing and chelation therapy because my Canadian ND honoured this. Dr Barrett is a LIAR when he tries to claim that a) a blood test is the appropriate method for heavy metal toxicity and b) the only thing necessary if this is positive is to remove the source of the exposure. Heavy metals are not present or visible in the blood; they sit/hide in fatty tissue and have to "provoked" out with a chelating agent so that they can be measured in the urine, which needs to be collected for several hours and sent to a specialist lab like Doctor's Data Inc. Also, removing the source of the exposure does not repair damage already caused.

Another principle of naturopathic medicine is "first do no harm" and chelation therapy is a lot less harmful and far more beneficial than the methylprednisone steroid treatment, beta interferon and baclofen drugs that MDs give to people with MS, which just make them even worse.

Re how I got such high levels of heavy metals, I already explained this in the article. Also, we all accumulate metals as we are exposed to them all the time in our surroundings. Most of the time our bodies can cope with these until we are emotionally and/or physically traumatised and our immune systems break down. This is what happened to me.

Maybe but you said " my mercury and lead levels were so high that they were off the chart, and I had elevated levels of aluminium and cadmium. "

How did you get all of that in your body? 

No matter, you are complaining because you emailed someone at a place called quackwatch who isn't your doctor, didn't like the answer and are mad. 

The writer of this "complaint" didn't agree with something on my Web site and decided to file a "Ripoff Report" even though she has no connection with me and was not ripped off. The that she disliked describes how a phony urine test is used to trick people into thinking they have toxic metals stored in their body.