STATE OF INDIANA
COUNTY OF BROWN
IN THE BROWN CIRCUIT COURT
CAUSE NO. 07COl-9308-CF-260
STATE OF INDIANA
VS
HULDA CLARK
PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVIT
Filed August 16, 1993
I, Amy M. Huffman, being duly sworn upon my oath, depose and say:
1. I am an adult and competent to make this affidavit based upon personal knowledge, and at all time relevant to this affidavit, I was acting in my professional capacity as an Indiana Deputy Attorney General.
2. On May 11, 1993, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Karl Milhon, an investigator for the Indiana Department of Health, Acquired Diseases Division, and I entered the premises of Hulda Clark, Ph.D., Coffey Lane, Nashville, IN 47448.
3. We visited Dr. Clark's office undercover. Karl posed as a bi-sexual male who recently learned that a former partner had tested positive for the HIV virus. I posed as his supportive friend who lives in Nashville.
4. Dr. Clark practices at her house on Coffey Lane, just outside of the town of Nashville.
5. Karl was asked to read and fill out two forms before seeing the doctor. One form asked for symptoms and general medical condition. The other stated that Dr. Clark used vitamins, minerals and herbs to change amino acids in the body and that she practices orthomolecular nutritional therapy. it also clearly stated that her analysis is based upon blood tests. This sheet stated she is not a medical doctor and had to be signed and dated by all patients.
6. Upon entering the patient room, I observed a large flat box holding small brown bottles with labels and number of small black switches on the desk. Next to it was a box with a white scale with numbers from one to one hundred, similar to ones I have seen to test the strength of batteries. The top of this box looked similar to a scale, and had two platforms. The box said "Vi-Tel 618" in big orange letters on the front side. A gold "wand" was attached to this machine by a black wire on the right side. Clamped to this black wire, near its base, was a teethed clip (a smaller version of one used to recharge car batteries) with a thin, red, curly wire. On the end of the red wire was what looked like a red ink pen with a silver metal tip about the size and pointedness of a ball-point pen. Under the desk, I observed a car battery that was not disguised and appeared to be attached to the machine. Also on the desk was a small clear bowl with wet, white gauze. Karl smelled the contents and said the liquid had no smell and appeared to him to be water.
7. The following are statements made by Hulda Clark to us during our appointment concerning her treatment of HIV positive patients. During this appointment, she tested Karl for cancer and the HIV virus an the machine described above. She told him he had the HIV virus, but said that he did not have cancer.
8. These quotes were recorded on 4 small cassette tape player worn under my clothing and were transcribed by me. "HC" refers to Hulda Clark, "KM"
refers to Karl Milhon; and "AH" refers to Amy Huffman.
9. HC: "We treat AIDS patients here everyday."
10. HC: "I can test you here. It's a one minute test and its all electronic."
11. HC: "We'll have you cleared up, (from the HIV virus) in less than two weeks and I don't know of anybody else who can do that. And I can guarantee it, in fact. A money back guarantee, if you want."
KM: "You mean you can cure it?"
HC: "Yes, I can kill the virus in three minutes. No one else knows how to do it and I am trying to publish it in two months."
12. HC: "I have treated about 70 patients and haven't had a single failure, There's no way it can fail if you know how to kill it. it's not like some others . . . it's not like arthritis or migraines or something like that. It's just a simple thing. And, there's a lot of complexity to not getting it back again. It isn't just what you think, that you can get the virus from somebody. It's not like that. You can pick it up, but it's not like that."
13. HC: "This (HIV test) isn't, you know, something that's legally acceptable, because it's in a new territory."
14. HC: "It's a measuring device (referring to the machine described in paragraph 6) and it will tell us how much, if any, of that virus you have."
15. HC: "Of course, everybody who is found positive is required, if it's through the health department, is required to notify you or something like that. our lab is not. We do what's called an antigen test to test for the presence of the virus and we get the results here and we give them to you when you come back."
16. HC: "The lab test won't pick up on this unless there's a lot of it.
Of course my device picks up a molecule."
17. HC: (The gold, wand is covered in a piece of wet gauze and held in Karl's right hand. She places a few drops of water on the side of Karl's left middle finger and touches it with the tip of the red pen. The machine makes a laud screeching noise and the arm of the mater jumps to one hundred.) "You're full of the virus. (inaudible -- she performs the test several more times) And we will cure it in three minutes."
18. HC: "But you will also get it back so you need to commit yourself to coming here six times. I'll see you once a week or once every five days, but you're not sick enough to see that often. . . I'm going to kill the virus this afternoon while you (inaudible) ... right here in the office, before you leave the office and it'll be gone."
19. HC: (She flips several switches on the machine and indicates she is testing the HIV levels in different organs in the body.) "Here's your thymus. (Uses machine.) Little bit in your thymus. (inaudible) (Uses machine) That's your liver."
20. HC: I'm going to check you for cancer. This is what I do for each person as they come in because it's so common now even though they have not had any risk factors That's not even where it comes from. That's how it's transmitted but not . . . (inaudible).
AH: The virus?
HC: (Uses machine) That's negative. (uses machine) Negative. HCG, that's a pre-cancer type."
21. As we left Dr. Clark's office, her receptionist gave Karl a prescription to the Medical Laboratory, in Indianapolis, which ordered an HIV/Antigen blood test, with Hulda Clark, Ph.D., as the prescribing physician.
22. Karl drove to Indianapolis to have the blood test and when he returned to Nashville at approximately 4:00 p.m., we returned to Dr.
Clark's office as she had requested.
23. As we approached Dr. Clark's office, the receptionist with long brown hair told us that three patients on the premises were HIV positive. one of them, Tim Lee, walked outside and spoke with us about the treatment he had received for the HIV virus from Dr. Clark.
24. When Dr. Clark was ready to see us we returned to the same examining room and she began testing Karl again for cancer and RCG. At this point, the receptionist called Dr. Clark to the phone for an "urgent" call of which we overheard her conversation.
25. She was being questioned by someone about her practice and stated she would need to speak with her attorney.
26. Dr. Clark then went into her home for a few minutes and when she returned she asked whether we were from the State Board of Health.
27. Karl stated that he was with the Board of Health and that she should speak with her attorney. She said she already had.
28. She then asked Karl what he was going to do about his positive test for HIV. She said he would need to see a doctor because although he was wall now, he would soon be sick. She gave him detailed advice on avoiding foods containing benzine.
29. Dr. Clark told us that AIDS is prevalent in the gay community because benzine is present in the "Rush" and "Pot" commonly used. She said AIDS is not a sexual disease but can be transmitted that way.
30. She also stated that everything she told us earlier (in our first appointment) was a "mistake."
31. I asked her whether she was diagnosing and treating patients. She said no, she was identifying substances in the body and eliminating them.
32. Karl gave Dr. Clark his supervisor's name and phone number and we left.
Further the affiant sayeth naught.
Amy M. Huffman
Deputy Attorney General
May 25, 1993
Hulda Regehr Clark, 70, claims to cure cancer, AIDS, and many other serious diseases. She describes herself as an "independent research scientist" with bachelor and master's degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. degree in physiology from the University of Minnesota (1958). She also lists a naturopathic (N.D.) degree, but the source is not identified [1]. Her treatment is available at Century Nutrition, a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, where the basic fee for two weeks of "treatment" is $4,500 (plus 10% tax). This figure does not include the cost of a motel room (approximately $210/week); meals ($250/week); blood tests ($70 each); standard diagnostic imaging tests ($40 to $400); dental x-rays (at least $206); "individually tailored"
supplements ($400 to $1,500 for a month supply); equipment (about $350);
tooth extractions ($80 each); and partial or full dentures ($450).
Bizarre Claims Clark claims that all cancers and many other diseases are caused by "parasites, toxins, and pollutants" and can be cured by killing the parasites and ridding the body of environmental chemicals. Her book *The Cure for All Cancers *states:
All cancers are alike. They are all caused by a parasite. A single parasite! It is the human intestinal fluke. And if you kill this parasite, the cancer stops immediately. The tissue becomes normal again.
In order to get cancer, you must have this parasite. . . .
This parasite typically lives in the intestine where it might do little harm, causing only colitis, Crohn's disease or irritable bowel syndrome, or perhaps nothing at all. But if it invades a different organ, like the uterus, kidneys or liver, it does a great deal of harm. If it establishes itself in the liver, it causes cancer! It only establishes itself in the liver of some people. These people have propyl alcohol in their body. All cancer patients (100%) have both propyl alcohol and the intestinal fluke in their livers. The solvent propyl alcohol is responsible for letting the fluke establish itself in the liver. In order to get cancer, you must have *both* the parasite and propyl alcohol in your body [1:1-2].
Clark further alleges:
+ The adult fluke "stays stuck to our intestine, (or liver, causing cancer, or uterus, causing endometriosis, or thymus, causing AIDS, or kidney, causing Hodgkin's disease)." [1:4] Or the pancreas, causing diabetes; the brain, causing Alzheimer's disease; the prostate (causing prostatitis; or the skin if you have Kaposi's sarcoma [1:35].
+ As soon as there are adults in the liver. . . . a growth factor, called ortho-phospho-tyrosine appears. Growth factors make cells divide.
Now YOUR cells will begin to divide too! Now you have cancer. . . .
Having propyl alcohol in your body allows the fluke to develop outside of the intestine [1:8].
+ When the fluke and all its stages have been killed, the ortho-phospho-tyrosine is gone! Your cancer is gone [1:9].
+ Clearly, you must do 3 things: (1) Kill the parasite and all its stages; (2) stop letting propyl alcohol into your body; and (3) flush out the metals and common toxins from your body so you can get well [1:10].
+ It is not unusual for someone to have a dozen (or more) of the parasites I have samples of. You can assume that you, too, have a dozen different parasites [1:10].
+ Three herbs, used together, can rid you of over 100 types of parasites: black walnut hulls, wormwood, and common cloves [1:11-12].
But the amino acids ornithine and arginine improve this recipe [1:15].
+ Use of these five products will kill the cancer-causing fluke in the first five days and the remaining parasites in another two weeks [1:19].
+ It takes 5 days to be cured of cancer regardless of the type you
have. Surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy can be canceled because, after
Clark's recipe cures the cancer, it cannot come back [1:introductory
passage].
+ All metal (fillings, crowns, bridges, etc.) should be removed from
the mouth, and all teeth with root canals should be extracted, because
their presence damages the immune system [1:46-48].
+ To prevent recurrence, stay on a maintenance program of killing parasites and give yourself a high-dose program at least twice a year.
Also treat all family members and household pets [1:23-26].
Clark is also using and promoting two devices. Her Syncrometer is claimed to identify diseased organs and toxic substances by noting whether the device makes various sounds when "test substances" are placed on a plate [1:373-427]. The device is simply a galvanometer that measures skin resistance to a low-voltage current that passes from the device through a probe touched to the patient's hand. Various models for home use can either be commercially purchased or made by the patient.
Clark's "Zapper" is a low-voltage device that supposedly kills
parasites, bacteria, and viruses with electrical energy, but does not
harm human tissue. Its use is based on Clark's notion that all living
things broadcast a characteristic range of radio frequencies and that
the device can issue counter-frequencies that kill unwanted organisms
[2]. Neither device has any genuine diagnostic or therapeutic value.
Clark's books, herbal products, and "Zapper" devices said to be built to her specifications are marketed through many Web sites [A, B [http://www.ess-in.com/zapper/hulda-clark-zapper.htm] , C, [http://www.ess-in.com/zapper/hulda-clark-zapper.htm] D [http://zapper.gaa.to/Zapper/] , E, [http://serv2.fwi.com/~elecheal/homestuf.htm#Electrical Healing] F [http://www.sota-inc.com/zapper/] G, [http://www.jcau.com/energymedicine/parasite_zapper_.htm] H, [http://www.mind.net/maps/htmlb/zapbt.htm] [http://www.island.net/~zapper/Original.html] Her ideas are also advocated by the Dr. Clark Research Association [http://www.drclark.net/] , a group founded in 1998 by David P. Amrein [http://home.oursites.net/davidpamrein] , a Scientologist who resides in Switzerland. In November 1999, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced that it had stopped an Australian company (Raylight Pty Ltd) from advertising that its "Parasite Zapper" passes an electric current through a person's blood and is effective against the AIDS virus, parasites, hepatitis, herpes, obesity, and other serious conditions. The company also agreed to provide refunds to consumers who felt they had been mislead [3].
Case Histories Pages 119-372 contain "case histories" of 138 cancer patients, of whom 103 were "cured" and 35 who "did not carry out instructions or could not be followed." The standard way to determine whether a treatment is effective is to carefully record the nature of the patient's disease before treatment and to determine the patient's condition indefinitely.
Clark's reports contain little information about the patient's history and no indication that Clark performed any physical examinations. The only follow-up reports are for a few patients who returned for further treatment -- usually a few weeks later. Cancer treatment results are normally expressed in terms of cancer-free status or survival over periods of years. Five-year survival rates are a common measure. Clark claims she can tell that patients are cured as soon as their ortho-phospho-tyrosine test is negative -- within days or even a few hours after her treatment is begun. This claim is preposterous.
Thirty-eight of the 103 reports indicate that the patient had been medically diagnosed with cancer, and most of these 38 had received standard treatment. In 59 other cases, however, there was no indication that the patient had undergone any medical test or treatment that would indicate the presence of a cancer. (In 10 other cases, which Clark diagnosed as HIV infection, there was no history suggestive of AIDS. In the rest, it was not clear whether the patient had been medically diagnosed with cancer.)
Judging from the reports, Clark's judgments were based entirely on the results of her own peculiar diagnostic tests. If "ortho-phospho-tyrosine" was found in the blood, the patient had cancer.
If a "protein 24 antigen" was found in the blood, the patient had AIDS.
And, anywhere from a few hours to several weeks later, if these tests became negative, Clark considered the patient cured. The book describes how some of the patients who had consulted Clark for other problems were startled to hear they had cancer or AIDS.
None of the reports provides any basis for concluding that Clark's treatment has the slightest value. The majority of the people described in the 103 case reports did not have cancer. Of those that did, most had received standard medical treatment or their tumors were in their early stages. In these cases, Clark pronounced them cured but did not follow what happened after they left her clinic -- so she could not possibly know how they did afterward. In some cases, she counted patients as cured even though she noted that they died within a few weeks after she treated them.
Legal Trouble for Clark.
In September 1999, Clark was arrested in San Diego, California, based on a fugitive warrant from Indiana, where she faces charges of practicing medicine without a license. The trouble originated in when Clark lived and practiced in Indiana [4,5]. In 1993, after a former patient complained to the Indiana attorney general, a health department official visited accompanied by a deputy attorney general visited her office and was diagnosed with AIDS and sent to a laboratory for a blood test [6].
Clark -- apparently tipped off by the lab -- found out she was being investigated and left Indiana a few days later. After being returned to Indiana, she was released on $10,000 bail. Her trial has been scheduled for February 2, 2000. Meanwhile, her supporters -- who refer to her as a "pioneer in medicine" -- are sending protest letters to press outlets and government officials. Further news of the case -- from the supporters' viewpoint -- is available on the Dr. Clark Research Association [http://www.drclark.net/] Web site.
For Additional Information + A Visit to Clark's Mexican Clinic (1996) [http://cancerguide.org/lsmith_hulda.html] + Interview of Dr.
Clark [http://www.awarenessherbs.com/clark.htm] + Three Days of Training with Dr. Clark [http://road-to-health.com/threed.htm] + Zapper Home Page [http://www.ess-in.com/zapper/hulda-clark-zapper.htm] + Finding the Way:
Dr. Hulda Clark Newsletter in UK [http://website.lineone.net/~findingtheway/] References 1. Clark HR. The Cure for All Cancers. San Diego, CA: ProMotion Publishing, 1993. 2. Clark HR. The Cure for All Diseases. San Diego, CA:
New Century Press, 1995. 3. 3. Promoters of alternative therapy devices give undertakings [http://www.accc.gov.au/media/mr-215-99.htm] .
News release, Nov 4, 1999. ACCC Web site, accessed Nov 9, 1999. 4.
Holmes S. Woman charged with practicing medicine illegally: Former Brown County resident arrested in California in case that dates back six years [http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/1999/10/04/news.991004_A1_PJR18343.s to] . Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct 4, 1999. 5. Fleischer J.
Former resident arrested in California [http://www.browncountyindiana.com/breaking1.html] . Brown County Democrat, Oct 6, 1999. 6. Huffman AM. Probable cause affidavit. May 25, 1993.
This current lawsuit which names Monica Pignotti for no damn reason that makes any sense, appears to be a countersuit relating to the libel actions Scientology crime cultist David Amrein has caused to be filed against himself and his quack employer, the nutso-buggo fuckup known as "Dr." Hulda Clark.
Amrein's main PR methods appear to be to call anyone who criticizes this bogus flake a "Nazi" and to tell outrageous lies about them until they sue.
Typical crime cultist, typical nut quack.
The most recent news story about these Hulda Clark whack-jobs is that they fled to Mexico to open up a quack operation in Tijuana that was promptly shut down by authorities for operating without a license. In a bit of police humor, the authorities agreed to let them reopen the quack operation so long as they only took a few NON-PAYING customers.
Since it's all nothing but a huge swindle and a boondoggle to swindle cancer patients out of all their money and then get them to discontinue real treatment so that they'll die (and therefore not be alive to sue), this took all fight out of Hulda's hucksters.
Now in a pathetic attempt to recoup some of their losses from their fully exposed swindle operation, the criminals and fraud artists file a frivolous lawsuit against a bunch of people to try to extort money out of them.
What a bunch of losers.
Both Hulda and Amrein ought to be chucked into a bamboo cage and they ought to sell tickets to children to poke them with sharp sticks.
"It takes 5 days to be cured of cancer regardless of the type you have. Surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy can be canceled because, after Clark's recipe cures the cancer, it cannot come back "
"Dr." Hulda "Quack Quack" Clark ptsc