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Dr. Stephen Barrett was instrumental in helping to get Paul Whitcomb's chiropractic license revoked (see sidebar for my collection of posts concerning Whitcomb; all ICI Whitcomb posts are here ). Dr. Barrett's Quackwatch site is one of my top two to go to when I suspect quackery. If the practitioner isn't mentioned on Quackwatch, I run the site on The Quackometer . But that one is for a different blog post. Practitioners who are mentioned on Quackwatch sometimes retaliate to the facts written about themselves there by resorting to smear campaigns and even frivolous lawsuits against Dr. Barrett. I'm still getting crazy comments on my posts that mention Dr. Barrett and I haven't even written anything about him since August of last year, so I can only imagine the kind of stuff he gets. I got this from the Quackwatch Consumer Health Digest weekly e-newsletter: Issue #09-45, November 4, 2009 Please Help Quackwatch and Dr. Barrett A personal Message from Robert S. ...

Pic ture courtesy of the Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia As specified in my About The ICIE page , in the Email republication policy section, the policy across The ICI Experience sites and blog is to reproduce any critical emails sent to any email address associated with me or this site, and also to reproduce any critical discussion of me or my activities which I see or become aware of on any outlets in any form of media. The following email doesn't come across directly as all that critical of me, but it does insinuate that I have not bothered to research Dr. Barrett's reputation before throwing my lot in with him. And it quite blatantly suggests that Dr. Barrett is himself a quack. The following is a copy of the email, and my answer. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Janis & Fred janis_at cox dot net > wrote: Hello Sherrill, I was reading your blog. I wanted to know where the chiropractor Whitcomb is located as his name rings a bell from my support group a...