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...less surprised by the news about St. John's wort than Stephen Barrett, 67, a retired Allentown, Pa., psychiatrist who for nearly 30 years has made it his business to sniff out health-related frauds, fads, myths and fallacies. Through newsletters, books and now the World Wide Web, he has become one of America's premier debunkers of what he likes to call quackery...
...Barrett long ago wrote off St. John's wort as a treatment for severe depression, posting a dispassionate analysis of the evidence for and against it on his website, www.quackwatch.com alongside similar dismissals of such nostrums as bee pollen, royal jelly and "stabilized oxygen." His site--filled with useful links, cautionary notes and essays on treatments ranging from aromatherapy to wild-yam cream--is widely cited by doctors and medical writers and draws 100,000 hits a month. It has also made Barrett a lightning rod for herbalists, homeopaths and assorted true believers, who regularly vilify him as dishonest, incompetent...
None of this seems to daunt Barrett, who has been exposing bogus health claims since the late 1970s, when he first surveyed health-related mail-order ads in national magazines and discovered that none of them lived up to their claims. His findings spurred legislation that authorizes the Federal Government to levy penalties of $25,000 a day on repeat mail-order offenders...
...scientific analysis of an individual's hair. The reports were so off base and contradictory that his debunking report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and picked up by the national press. "It left the hair-analysis industry with egg on its face," says Barrett. "Half the labs shut down...
...Soft Boys to a crowd at a Nov. 1976 show. Alan Davies soon replaced Lamb, and the EP Give it to the Soft Boys was released in 1977. Rew replaced Davies, and the 1979 psychedelic Can of Bees LP—clearly influenced by the Bs: Sid Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, the Byrds, and William Burroughs—was recorded (Hitchcock has previously described “the Soft Boys” as a Burroughs amalgam of Soft Machine and the Wild Boys). After one more switch (Seligman replaced Metcalfe on bass), the Soft Boys sound that would...