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Author Re: Call for Canadians Injured by Herbal Products
Dave Wickware

2004-08-29, 7:11 pm

You are pathetic.


"Terry Polevoy" <info@healthwatcher.net> wrote in message
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> "Dave Wickware" <dwickware@sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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>
> Sorry Dave, this just doesn't cut the mustard.
>
> I am again warning you for the last time.
>
> Remove all defamatory posts about my personal or professional life
> within seven days from all of your Usenet posts, and Curezone posts if
> you have made any there. If you fail to do that within seven days you
> will be on the receiving end of a very nasty lawsuit that will seek
> monetary damages that you can ill-afford.
>
> I suggest that you discuss this with your family and your legal
> advisors immediately.
>
> Your idiotic friends who post on Usenet every time that they see my
> name are equally responsible. All you have to do is to check the court
> records for the Supreme Court of California in regards to Ilena
> Rosenthal and you will see that this is very serious indeed.
>
> http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quacke...lark/index.html
>
> I believe that I have told the truth about you, your "organization"
> and associate. It is you who have not told the truth about yourself,
> your organization or your products. You have flogged herbal products
> to young children with terminal cancer, and that is wrong. The truth
> is that your efforts in the area of holistic medicine have been
> nothing more that simple consumer health fraud. You just don't get it,
> or you are purposely doing this without conscience.
>
> The herbal products, specifically the ginseng ones, that you have
> allegedly given away, or sold to numerous people over the years have
> not been established to either promote health, or cure any disease.
> You knew that, and yet you failed to tell consumers the facts.
>
> There are serious problems with the credibility of the people you are
> associated with. The way that you have misrepresented the products you
> hawk have been noted, and complaints filed with some of those
> companies.
>
> You have violated your terms of service with Sympatico.ca each and
> every time you post lies and defamatory posts about anyone.
>
> The fact that you have refused to admit that you are wrong in the
> marketing of herbal and nutraceutical products for serious health
> problems is grounds for the Competition Bureau to take action.
>
> The fact that you or your associate Lu Lanzon has attempted to recruit
> seriously ill cancer patients by using newspaper ads, and Yellow Pages
> that imply that she holds a real PhD is false advertising and also
> grounds for action by the Competition Bureau.
>
> You claim, in your Usenet posts, that Lanzon practiced psychiatry, or
> is a psychiatrist, and/or obtained her degree to practice psychiatry
> in Brasil is unsupported by the facts. Your claim that your associate
> has psychic powers is a laugh, and grounds for action by the
> Competition Bureau for false advertising. It is all a sham.
>
> As for you, Dave, you have no health care credentials at all, never
> had them, never will. You just decided a few years ago to start
> selling herbal products to earn some money for your family. It was, I
> believe, your decision to promote an alternative medical clinic in an
> office building in Waterloo, Ontario with Lu Lanzon and try to promote
> this nonsense to the public.
>
> It was not a wise business decision to do that. That is obvious. But
> perhaps the worst thing about this situation, in all due respect, is
> that you really don't know how deep a hole that you have dug yourself.
> Your actions to defame me are egregious. They make no sense, just like
> it makes no sense to continuously bring up the name of the little girl
> who you seemed to think benefited from your ginseng "cures".
>
> So, judge your actions accordingly and obtain legal representation if
> you can afford it. I am not going to let this defamation continue any
> longer.
>
> For those of you who have a need to know about Dave Wickware and Lu
> Lanzon, a good review of their activities can be found here:
>
> http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quacke...ex.html#ginseng
>
> Another search that might be helpful is here:
>
> http://www.commonweal.org/herbs.html
> http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/PPI/Uncon...ies/default.htm
> http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/PPI/Uncon...ies/Ginseng.htm
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...s/altmed/snake/
>

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/c...sp?sitearea=ETO
>
> The problem is basically that Dave Wickware and Lu Lanzon, who up
> until now has remained silent, seem to have no conception that what
> they have done is morally and ethically wrong. They have no conception
> that psychic healing is a fraud, and that the marketing of any kind of
> herbal product to seriously ill people is potentially dangerous.
>
> Wickware continues to claim that his products have helped a little
> girl who has a terminal brainstem cancer, when they clearly have never
> done that. It is a serious matter to prey on the vulnerabilities of
> families who have children with cancer or for that matter any serious
> health problem. It is wrong for a medical doctor to do that, it is
> wrong for any other regulated health professional to do that. But,
> Dave Wickware, a man with no credentials at all, a man who defames and
> libels me personally just doesn't understand the facts.
>
> He continues to defraud the public with his claims, he has
> misrepresented the credentials of those he is associated with, and he
> has continued to defame me personally.
>
> He will lose in court when the time comes, and that is a certainty.
>
> Terry Polevoy, MD
>
> P.S. Anyone who has had dealings with Dave Wickware and/or Lu Lanzon
> from Waterloo, Ontario feel free to contact me.
>
> Contact me directly -- mailto:info@healthwatcher.net
>
> http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/index.html
> http://www.herbalwatch.com
> http://www.dietfraud.com



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