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| My name is '''David Mehnert''' (b. ]). As '''Sandover''', I have contributed to Misplaced Pages since ]. I am a ] music teacher in private practice (recognized for my work with ] and ]), although I have generally avoided editing on ] and savant-related articles due to a potential conflict-of-interest. | |||
| ] and his partner ] at home in ], 14 October 1973. (Photograph by ])]] | |||
| I also edit on Japanese Misplaced Pages under the user name 藪の中の細雪. | |||
| I am passionate about ] (1926-1995), having made a ] in the American poet's work which I hope to publish in 2014 or 2015. I have made many contributions (small and large) to Merrill-related subjects, and my UserID is drawn from the title of the poet's celebrated 560-page ] ], '']'' (1982). | |||
| In a more perfect world, I would be happy concerning myself merely with music, art, and poetry. Unfortunately, I wear another hat... | |||
| '''Stem Cell Fraud/CIA Whistleblower''' | |||
| As an eyewitness ] testifying in a relevant to ]'s original sponsorship (see Cynthia Fox's ''Cell of Cells'', Norton, 2007, pp. 364-365, with my name in the endnotes), I refrain as '''Sandover''' from editing on his page and on the proliferation of offshore ] ] in general. In 1998, I was paid $5,000 by ]'s non-profit, Voters For Choice (ChoiceUSA), to research and write a Q&A on the promise of stem cells, a document purportedly meant to educate Washington politicians and help them protect this promising nascent technology from the interference of legislation; I was horrified to see my work selectively edited and packaged into "The Efficacy of Fetal Stem Cells In A Variety of Disease States," a fake medical paper privately circulated (over my objections) for nearly a decade by Dr. William C. Rader, and among his "copy-quack" imitators, to deceive patients into receiving worthless and dangerous offshore "stem cell" treatments. | |||
| I filed a formal complaint with the Medical Board of California, among others, in 2002 and again in 2007. Only since 2007 have I been aware of the ]'s role in the fraud's origins and cover-up. As this is an evolving story, I refer interested readers to my . (I have shared evidence and documentation widely in the medical world. Needless to say, I was a 'non-witting' participant '''and have never worked for the CIA nor signed a confidentiality agreement'''.) | |||
| There is currently an editing battle on Dr. Rader's entry (as of December 2012-March 2013) which has resulted in mangled text and the loss of key references. Reproduced below, as a matter of record, is the well-sourced , which had remained stable on Misplaced Pages since the article's creation in early 2009. | |||
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| '''William C. Rader''', ] is a controversial ] ] who began administering ] "]" treatments offshore in the 1990s.<ref name="Quackwatch2003">{{cite web|work=]|first=Stephen|last=Barrett, M.D.|url=http://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/stemcell.html|title=The Shady Side of Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy|date=August 3, 2003|accessdate=April 9, 2009|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030808063223/http://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/stemcell.html|archivedate=August 8, 2003}}</ref><ref name="Quackwatch2009">{{cite web|work=]|first=Stephen|last=Barrett, M.D.|url=http://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/stemcell.html|title=The Shady Side of Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy|date=February 17, 2009|accessdate=April 9, 2009}}</ref><ref name="SacBee">{{cite news|work=]|date=January 9, 2005|accessdate=April 9, 2009|first=Laura|last=Mecoy|url=http://www.rideforlife.com/news/stem_cell_research/stem_cells_hopes_lure_many_abroad_1.html|title=Stem Cells, Hopes Lure Many Abroad}}</ref><ref name="LATimes">{{cite news|work=]|date=February 22, 2005|accessdate=April 9, 2009|first=Alan|last=Zarembo|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-sci-stemside20feb20,1,206108.story|title=Outside the U.S., businesses run with unproved stem cell therapies}}</ref><ref name="DailyMail">{{cite news|work=]|date=August 7, 2006|accessdate=April 9, 2009|first=Andrea|last=Thompson|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-399376/A-barbaric-kind-beauty.html|title=A barbaric kind of beauty}}</ref><ref name="KABC">{{cite news|work=] (Channel 7, Los Angeles)|date=May 9, 2007|accessdate=April 9, 2009|url=http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5283114|title=Doctor Claims Controversial Stem Cell Treatment Works}}</ref><ref name="WaPo">{{cite news|work=]|date=September 2, 2008|accessdate=April 9, 2009|first=Bryan|last=Vastag|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082902517_pf.html|title=Injections of Hope}}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite news|work=] ]|title=Stem cells and miracles|date=May 18, 2009|accessdate=May 18, 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8040000/8040872.stm}}</ref> | |||
| == History == | |||
| Rader first observed the treatment in the mid-1990s at a ] clinic (which had been freezing fetal tissue and treating patients since 1972).<ref name="LATimes"/> After escorting patients to the Ukraine, Rader set up an independent business in the ] in 1997.<ref name="Quackwatch2003"/><ref name="Quackwatch2009"/><ref name="LATimes"/> A critical television report prompted the Bahamian government to close Rader's clinic in 2000.<ref name="LATimes"/> Rader later set up a clinic in the ].<ref name="Quackwatch2003"/><ref name="Quackwatch2009"/><ref name="LATimes"/> | |||
| Rader has marketed his therapy under a variety of business names including Mediquest, Czech Foundation, Dulcinea Institute, Ltd., and Medra, Inc.<ref name="Quackwatch2003"/><ref name="Quackwatch2009"/> According to the California Secretary of State's office, Medra, Inc. was incorporated on September 11, 1997 and authorized to issue shares of domestic (U.S.) stock to potential investors;<ref name="MedraInc">Medra Inc., September 11, 1997: {{cite web|title=California Corporation C2018069|url=https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=02018069|accessdate=September 20, 2009}}</ref> Medra, Inc. remained in active standing as of July 2, 2009.<ref name="MedraInc"/> | |||
| A March 2009 report in the prestigious journal ] said Rader was "particularly notorious" among physicians taking advantage of the "current international regulatory vacuum" over offshore stem cell clinics.<ref name="Science">{{cite news|work=]|title=Monitoring and Regulating Offshore Stem Cell Clinics|first=Sorapop|last=Kiatsangan|coauthor=Douglas Sipp|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5921/1564|date=2009-03-20|accessdate=2009-11-12}} Published in the journal's Policy Forum section with the additional subtitle, "Unverified medical treatments based on stem cells need oversight." Vol. 323. no. 5921, pp. 1564-1565, online access by fee. Article is archived online (with magazine's permission) in by the New York Stem Cell Foundation: "Medra became particularly notorious for the extraordinary claims made by its founder, psychiatrist William Rader, who has refused to share information on cell lines and techniques he claims can be used for treatment of conditions including spinal cord injury and Down syndrome."</ref> | |||
| Rader obtains the stem cells from fetuses aborted in Eastern Europe. He charges $30,000 for the initial injection and $12,500 for subsequent injections.<ref name="KABC"/> | |||
| == Medical claims == | |||
| Rader has claimed success treating a wide variety of illnesses and ailments. "I have literally cured early ]," Rader told the '']'' in 2005.<ref name="LATimes"/> As of 2005, Rader claimed to have treated more than a thousand ] with "stem cell" suspensions originating in the former ] of ].<ref name="LATimes"/> Rader has not published any medical study or report of his methods and successes because to do so, he says, would invite a "conspiracy" of criticism from scientists, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and abortion opponents.<ref name="LATimes"/> | |||
| In May 2007, Rader claimed to a Los Angeles television station (which previously employed him) that he had discovered a cure for ].<ref name="KABC"/><ref name="Edwards">{{cite news|work=]|first=Steven|last=Edwards|url=http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/doctor_claims_s.html|title=Doctor Claims Stem-Cell-Derived Cure For AIDS|date=May 9, 2007|accessdate=April 9, 2009}}</ref> Rader has refused independent examination and testing of his product by legitimate stem cell researchers.<ref name="SacBee"/><ref name="KABC"/><ref name="Science"/> After Rader's sales tactics were caught on hidden camera by a prospective patient with ], Rader defended himself in a heated ] '']'' interview in May 2009.<ref name="BBC"/><ref name="BBC-MS">{{cite news|work=]|first=Linda|last=Oatley|date=May 18, 2009|accessdate=May 18, 2009|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8050000/8050166.stm|title=MS patient: The search for a 'cure'}}</ref><ref name="BBC-questioned">{{cite news|work=]|date=May 18, 2009|accessdate=May 18, 2009|first=Darragh|last=MacIntyre|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8052000/8052670.stm|title=Controversial stem cell doctor questioned}} Rader's full quote is preserved : “By the way, in the long run, it doesn’t hurt me as long as you spell my name correctly. Because parents don’t give a damn what you say about this intellectual shit. If you had a child that had any of these things, you would refer that child to me. I am clear about it—you absolutely would. So those parents will still come to me. We will get patients from this.”</ref> "In the long run, it doesn’t hurt me as long as you spell my name correctly," Rader told the BBC. "Because parents don’t give a damn what you say about this intellectual shit. If you had a child that had any of these things, you would refer that child to me."<ref name="BBC-questioned"/> | |||
| == Associates == | |||
| An early associate of Rader who helped him treat patients in the Bahamas and Europe, ],<ref name="LATimes"/> was arrested in ], ] in July 2009 with three colleagues on suspicion of operating an illegal fetal cell transplantation clinic.<ref name="BudapestTimes">{{cite news|work=Hungarian Spectrum |title=Stem cell "therapy" business in Hungary |url=http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2009/07/stemcell-therapy-business-in-hungary.html|date=July 31, 2009|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Xinhua">{{cite news|work=]|title=Hungarian police arrest international team for illegal stem cell treatment|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-20590818.html|date=July 29, 2009|accessdate=September 26, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Reuters">{{cite news|work=]|first=Krisztina|last=Than|title=Hungary detains 4 over illegal stem cell treatment|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56S4PR20090729|date=July 29, 2009|accessdate=September 26, 2009}}</ref> Baltaytis, a Ukraine-born U.S. citizen,<ref name="BudapestTimes"/><ref name="Xinhua"/> had previously treated patients in Barbados and initially gave his name to Hungarian investigators as "Julliy B."<ref name="BudapestTimes"/><ref name="Reuters"/> | |||
| From approximately 2001 until his death in a ] hotel room in 2005, ] physician ] was billed as Medra's "chief scientific investigator." <ref name=Quackwatch2003/><ref name=Quackwatch2009/><ref name=Scheller>{{cite news|title=Specialist who treated Roy dies|first=Norm|last=Clarke|url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Sep-14-Wed-2005/news/27204512.html|work=Las Vegas Review-Journal|date=September 14, 2005|accessdate=November 21, 2009}}</ref> A longtime marketeer of alternative cancer treatments, Scheller died at ] on August 29, 2005, where he was to administer “stem cells” to ] (of '']'') in the course of the ]’s extended recovery from a tiger bite.<ref name=Scheller/> An autopsy revealed that 60-year-old Scheller died of severe ] and also suffered ], the latter likely caused by long-term ] and ], according to an assistant Las Vegas coroner.<ref name=Scheller/> In a telephone conversation before his death, Scheller told a European reporter that he had visited ] the day before flying to Las Vegas: “He was not happy about her health condition!”<ref name=Scheller/> | |||
| == Prior employment == | |||
| Before entering the stem cell business, Rader ran a chain of ] clinics in ] called the Rader Institute, Inc., opening a satellite branch in a ] hospital in October 1986.<ref name="JournalRecord">{{cite news|work=]|first=Robert|last=Watkins|title=Rader Bringing Familiar Brand of Drug Treatment to Oklahoma|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5372952.html|date=October 29, 1986|accessdate=April 9, 2009}}</ref> The Rader Institute, Inc. ultimately filed for ] bankruptcy protection in 2004 claiming outstanding debts of $1,279,700 and no assets.<ref name="bankrupt">, Los Angeles Business Journal, May 17, 2004</ref> | |||
| For more than a decade beginning in the late 1970s, Rader was an on-air medical expert for ] in ].<ref name="LATimes"/><ref name="KABC"/><ref name="Rosenberg">, Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1986.</ref> Rader was married from 1977 until 1983 to the actress ], who gave birth to the couple's daughter in 1979.<ref name="Struthers"></ref> Rader was the co-author of a two-part 1977 episode of '']'', "Archie's Bitter Pill", in which the character ] develops and recovers from an ] ].<ref name="fandango">, Fandango.com.</ref> | |||
| == Publications == | |||
| In 2010, Rader published a book titled ''Blocked in the USA: The Stem Cell Miracle.''<ref name= "Amazon Books">{{cite web|work=Amazon.com|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615329055|title=Blocked in the USA: The Stem Cell Miracle (product listing)|date=March 1, 2010|accessdate=August 8, 2010}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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