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...Israel Ian Deanda '01 met Hillary B. Barrett through the Church of Latter Day Saints and wrote her a thank you note after they had their first extended conversation...
Chiropractors too have felt Barrett's sting. While he sees benefits in chiropractic manipulation, he wonders about "a whole profession based on an idea--subluxations--that isn't true." He especially deplores the fact that some chiropractors claim that their manipulations can treat infectious diseases and prescribe homeopathic remedies, which he considers worthless...
Other Babe Ruth moments followed, none more satisfying to Barrett than the 1998 publication in J.A.M.A. of a report by Emily Rosa, an 11-year-old Colorado girl who for a school science project devised a simple test of therapeutic touch. It demonstrated that practitioners were unable to detect the "human energy field" on which their technique is based. Hearing of Emily's project, Barrett helped edit a report, got it published and was rewarded with worldwide press coverage...
...Barrett is underwhelmed by today's New Age celebrities. Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is "very slick but makes glaring errors and hardly ever admits anything is quackery. I call him a 'rubber ducky.'" Deepak Chopra he dismisses as a purveyor of "Ayurvedic mumbo jumbo." (Chopra, for his part, calls Barrett "a self-appointed vigilante for the suppression of curiosity...
...Barrett retired from his psychiatric practice in 1993 to devote himself full time to quackbusting. Along the way, he honed his communication skills and now considers himself an investigative journalist taking full advantage of the power of the Internet. "Twenty years ago, I had trouble getting my ideas through to the media," he says. "Today I am the media...