Re: Information for those of you who are interested in [unnamedperson]

[Guest guest]

To anonymous investigator:

My (computer) system is protected better than Fort Knox-

And not only couldn't I access that site, I received 2 security

alerts attempting to.

If any one gets in- please give a summary.

Barb

> Hello everyone,

>

> I think for those of you interested in [unnamedperson] you

> will find the following site to be of great interest.

>

> http://mpinvestigator.tripod.com/

>

> Thanks,

>

> MPinvestigator.

[Guest guest]

Hello Barb.

Hmm, you shouldnt have had any problems. It may be some of the forced

advertising on lycos site that is triggering the alerts. I can

guarantee that there is nothing malicious in the html code, as I coded

it myself. I will go and have a look, and I recommend you try again in

a few minutes.

Sincerely,

MPinvestigator.

> > Hello everyone,

> >

> > I think for those of you interested in [unnamedperson] you

> > will find the following site to be of great interest.

> >

> > http://mpinvestigator.tripod.com/

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > MPinvestigator.

[Guest guest]

Copied and pasted below:

Information About Trevor Marshall, Ph.D

The objective of this site is to present background

information about Trevor Marshall Ph.D. which is not provided at the Marshall

Protocol (www.marshallprotocol.com)

or Sarcinfo (www.sarcinfo.com ) message

boards.

This information is intended to assist patients suffering

from chronic illness to make a more fully informed decision before embarking on

the Marshall Protocol by providing additional information about its creator.

All information contained on this site

is available in the public domain.This site provides a compilation of factual

information uncovered by its creators that is not readily found in simple web

searches. All relevant sources contained herein retain copyright ownership and

are published under the “Fair Use” Provisions of the Copyright Act.

Relevant source material are provided.

Marshall's Background

YARC Systems Corporation Inc., Trevor G.

Marshall, Ph.D, CEO

Trevor Marshall was the CEO and principle shareholder of YARC Systems Corporation Inc. YARC was incorporated in the State of California (USA) and

primarily involved in the production of printer technology.

Marshall ran this company from the time

it started in 1988 until its bankruptcy in December, 2000, and subsequent

liquidation.

The company’s SEC report of the bankruptcy filing is

found on the Securities and Exchange Commission Website here.

Records of YARC’s litigation history can be found on

the web site of the Superior Court of California (USA), County of Ventura.

Enter “yarc " in the “Business” text box, at this link.

YARC, represented by Trevor Marshall, has been present in the Superior

Court of California (USA) County

of Ventura on a

significant number of occasions.

Two cases are of particular interest. The first

case, brought by a former employee, arose as a result of his tenure as

President of YARC, and was settled in favour of the employee for $50,000.

See ph La Bruna

v. Trevor G. Marshall, YARC Systems Corporation, and Does 1 through 20

at this

link.

And in alternative format on

Pinksheets, at this

link

Following are excerpts from the above document detailing

some of the claims made against Marshall:

“Marshall authorized, directed, consented to

or participated in the acts and omissions set forth herein with knowledge of

their tortious nature and purpose. Marshall

further knew or reasonably should have known that said acts and omission would

or could cause injury to the

Plaintiff.”

“YARC was, and is used by Marshall…..as a

mere shell and a conduit for the conduct of certain personal and/or business

affairs. YARC was conceived, intended, and used by Marshall, as a device to

avoid individual liability and for the purpose of substituting a financially

insolvent corporation in the place of Marshall.

YARC is, and at all times herein mentioned, was so inadequately capitalized

that, compared to the business to be done by Defendants, and the risk attendant

thereto, its capitalization was illusory or trifling.”

“Defendant Marshall has stated to

third persons, including current YARC employees and potential employees, that

the Plaintiff misappropriated, embezzled and misused funds or property of YARC,

despite knowing such statements to be false.”

And, finally:

“The Defendants, Marshall and Does 1 through to

20, made representations and promises and concealed and omitted the true facts

knowing such representations, promises and concealments and omissions to be

false. They were made with the intention of deceiving, defrauding and

misleading the plaintiff, and to induce him to act in reliance thereon.”

The second case involved a Danish company called StanTech,

See Case H930185B – The

Maritime and Commerical Court of Copenhagen 22nd November 1996

Transcript

(Translated) Of Danish Case

In this case, YARC was convicted in the Maritime and Commercial Court of Copenhagen, Denmark of copying and marketing,

as their own, the product of Danish company StanTech. (The product was

originally developed by the Danish Company Stantext A/S and purchased by one of

its directors, Mr. Flemming Stanley, when StanText went bankrupt. Mr. Stanley

later started a new company called StanTech, which took ownership of this

product.)

The Court found against YARC for an amount in excess of

750,000 Danish Kroner. The

judgement of the court was supported by the testimony of a number of expert

witnesses. YARC has never payed this judgement.

Subsequently, in a libel case against Mr Stanley in the

Superior Court of California, County

of Ventura, Trevor Marshall swore to

the following statement under oath: (extracted from Marshall’s statement, submitted to the

Court of Ventura)

See YARC SYSTEMS CORPORATION VS STANTECH DIGITAL

– Case No. CIV136977 Ventura Superior Court 10-20-1993

“On 22 November 1996, the Danish

Maritime and Commercial Court

(So-og Handelsretten) convicted Mr. Stanley of Criminal Libel in the case YARC

had lodged during 1993. The penalties included a fine in lieu of 10 days jail

time. I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and

correct. "

This is, in fact, untrue, and these charges of criminal

libel were dismissed by the Danish court. (See transcript of Case H930185B

– The Maritime and Commerical Court of

Copenhagen 22nd November 1996 ) Transcript (Translated)

Of Danish Case

There is obviously significant discrepancy between Marshall’s

statement under oath, and the findings of the Danish Court.

Marshall's Qualifications

Of particular concern to the authors of this site is Marshall’s use of

the title “Dr.” on message boards on which he is providing medical

advice to seriously ill patients. While he will readily explain that he has a

Ph.D. and is not a medical doctor, this point is not made often, and many of

his message board members may not realize that he is not a medical

doctor.

In fact, Marshall obtained

a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Adelaide

in 1974. In 1978, he obtained a Master of Engineering (RF Digital

Electronics). He holds a Ph.D. qualification issued by the University of

Western Australia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

This information is publicly available on his personal web

site at http://www.trevormarshall.com/resume.htm or

in case his personal page becomes unavailable, his resume can also be found in

pdf format at this link.

A copy of Marshall’s thesis, entitled

“Modelling and simulation in diabetes care” / by Trevor Gordon

Marshall, can be found on the University of Western Australia's Website, here.

The authors found its primary content to be mathematical

modelling and the use of computer simulations / programs to assist in

understanding glucose in diabetes care, yet Marshall sometimes points to his

thesis as evidence of his expertise in his current endeavours, in implied

reference if not directly.

When discussing the Marshall Protocol, Marshall claims

that his Ph.D. was earned in Biomedical Engineering. (See this interview

with Immunesupport.com

) Yet, during his tenure as CEO of Yarc, Marshall claimed that his

doctorate was in Electrical Engineering. See

here.

Inconsistencies related to Marshall’s presentations

of his credentials and experience have caused a number of people to question

his qualifications to provide medical guidance to patients with serious chronic

illness. He frequently refuses to respond to inquiries posted by patients to

his message boards, some of them regarding serious health issues related to

following his protocol. He often responds defensively, insisting that people

simply respect and trust him, yet his CV is not posted at either of his message

boards.

There is also evidence that Marshall has misread

scientific studies, and subsequently quoted them as evidence to support his

theory. At the British Medical Journal website, one author has come out

and stated that Trevor misinterpreted his work.

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7379/12/b#88124

Vanlandschoot,

Group leader

Center for Vaccinology, Ghent

University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

I noticed that Trevor G Marshall refers

to a paper I published (Vanlandschoot P, Van Houtte F, Roobrouck A, Farhoudi A,

Leroux-Roels G: Hepatitis B virus surface antigen suppresses the activation of

monocytes through interaction with a serum protein and a monocyte-specific

receptor. Journal of General Virology (2002), 83, 1281-1289).

According to Trevor Marshall I provided

in this paper an excellent explanation of how the non- infectious surface

antigen of Hepatitis B (HBsAg) works to directly oppose the differentiation

activity of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D. I wish to point out that in my paper I do

not demonstrate such activity of hepatitis B surface antigen. I only used

1,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D to induce expression of CD14 on THP-1 pre-monocytic

cells and such more matured cells were subsequently used to demonstrate that

Hepatitis B surface antigen inhibited lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of

the cells.

Marshall's Research

Marshall repeatedly states that he has published a number

of papers on his findings regarding the immune system and sarcoidosis.

While two of these papers were indexed at PubMed, the

majority of the papers on these topics, including the three listed below, have

never been accepted for official publication, a fact that Marshall himself has

admitted with some frustration, and concedes here.

The three papers below were explicitly rejected for

publication.

1. Marshall TG, Marshall FE: New

Treatments Emerge as Sarcoidosis Yields Up its Secrets. clinmed 2003 Jan

27;2003010001. clinmed.netprints.org/cgi/content/full/2003010001 (accessed 27

Jan 2003) [Full Text]

2. Marshall TG, Marshall FE: Remission in

Sarcoidosis. clinmed 2002 Aug 22;2002080004.

clinmed.netprints.org/cgi/content/full/2002080004 (accessed 27 Jan 2003) [Full

Text]

3. Marshall TG, Marshall FE: Valsartan

Dosing Regime Modulates Psychotic Events in Two Sarcoidosis Patients. clinmed

2002 Aug 29;2002080006. clinmed.netprints.org/cgi/content/full/2002080006

(accessed 27 Jan 2003) [Full Text]

These papers are annotated with the following advisory:

“This article has

not yet been accepted for publication by a peer reviewed journal. It is

presented here mainly for the benefit of fellow researchers. Casual readers should not act on its findings, and

journalists should be wary of reporting them.”

Despite this fact, Marshall continues to point to the

contents of these papers as “proven science. "

The Journal of Independent Medical Research

Trevor Marshall created, and is the registered owner for the website domain,

of a non-print, web-based journal called " The

Journal of Independent Medical Research. "

Marshall also serves on the advisory panel of this

journal and publishes papers in it.

None of the publications made in this online journal have

ever been accepted for publication to the officially recognised PubMed database.

To understand what exactly is meant by the term

“peer review”, see this article from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

Marshall does have two papers published on the topic of

sarcoidosis. One paper is indexed on PubMed; the other is published in a

Russian Medical Journal.

Marshall’s Assertions about the Safety and Effectiveness of the

Marshall Protocol

Marshall has repeatedly claimed that the Marshall Protocol

is safe and effective, both for adults and children. As described

elsewhere in this document, when patients raise questions about these issues,

they are belittled and sometimes banned from the message board for doing so.

One issue of particular concern is his claim that the

Marshall Protocol is safe for young children without stating any of the

specifics of the cases which may make it an acceptable risk for one child but

not for another.

See this FAQ: http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum32/1140.html

which reads as follows as of 18 July 2005:

" Yes, children can be treated with the MP. The

youngest child on the protocol is nine years old. And one child who is 13 years

old has been on the MP for one year.

It may be more difficult to find a supportive doctor who is willing to work

with a new treatment plan and a child. Your doctor can find support online in

our medical professionals only forum and from Trevor Marshall.

The MP safe for children. When compared to other protocols or medications that

children have been given for their Th1 inflammatory disases, the choice should

be easy. "

In another example of

Marshall’s grandiose but seemingly unfounded assertions, he states:

" I think you need to understand

that everybody [emphasis added]

gets their life back by about 12-18 months, and they stop worrying about

anything at that point. It is just plain sailing from there on. The amount of

herx you get beyond that point doesn't cramp your style in any way. Similarly,

at that point nobody cares too much about having to take the ARB and

antibiotics for another year or two - they have their lives back, and nothing

matters any more "

Yet there are patients who have been on the protocol for

more than 12 months, with no improvement. Indeed, some are seemingly

worse. Even one of the board staff members, Aussie Barb, is far from having her

life back despite being on the protocol for more than a year. She describes a

life that is still very much restricted to her bed and computer. (See http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum30/1237-24.html

)

While some patients

are clearly having success on the protocol, many people who have discontinued

the protocol, including some due to severe adverse reactions, have not been

tracked. Because of this, it is impossible to make an accurate assessment of

either the success rate or safety of the Marshall Protocol.

You will come across numerous examples of Marshall’s

claims as you read his message boards. Other examples of his assertions that

the protocol is completely safe and effective will be added to this document as

time permits.

The Autoimmunity Research 'Foundation'

The organisation that refers to itself as the

‘Autoimmunity Research Foundation’ is actually registered as

Autoimmunity Research Incorporated. It was registered and established by Trevor

Marshall in 2004. The address of record for this organisation is

Marshall’s home address.

You can find the detail of its registration at the California

Secretary of State Webpage

Additionally, the authors at this time were unable to

uncover any document detailing how donated funds are spent. If Marshall

provides the site creators with these details, they will be added.

Summary and Conclusions

For fifteen years, Marshall ran a high-tech company that

was the subject of substantial litigation and ultimately went bankrupt. Some of

the allegations in litigation against YARC and Marshall accused Marshall of

lying, deception and misleading conduct. A number of his (former) message

board members are concerned that this pattern of behaviour continues with his

latest project, the Marshall Protocol, and that he may be putting lives at risk

in the process.

Trevor Marshall has widely and publicly claimed that his

treatment represents a cure for a wide variety of so-called Th-1/autoimmune

diseases. He claims that it will cure these illnesses despite the fact that

there have been no formal studies with objective oversight, and that few, if

any, people, other than sarcoidosis patients, have been on the Marshall

Protocol for the two to three years that Marshall says it takes to achieve a

cure. Indeed, few if any patients, including Marshall and his board staff, have

discontinued medications, so the end result of treatment, even for sarcoidosis

patients, remains uncertain.

Additionally, many questions exist regarding the

protocol’s safety and long term effectiveness, especially in regards to

long term use of high dose Benicar and long term deprivation of Vitamin D.

Neither of his web sites provides a list of the potential risks of the

protocol. Indeed, Marshall

refuses to allow any open or reasonable debate of the theory or science behind

the protocol, and often closes threads that involve too much questioning.

Additionally, many members who have had difficulties with the protocol and

sought for more in depth answers, have been banned.

We don’t mean to imply that the protocol is

ineffective or unsafe, only to point out that there has been insufficient study

and time to state these as facts, as Marshall

frequently does.

Before making a

decision to follow the Marshall Protocol, we recommend that you consider

all factors of this experimental protocol, including potential benefits,

unknown risks, and treatment alternatives, as well as the background and claims

of its creator, and discuss them with your health care provider.

Contact

us: Do you have any comments or wish to provide additional

information? Or do you believe that any of the above information is incorrect

or inaccurate? If so, please contact us at mailto:mpinvestigator@...

From: infections [mailto:infections ] On Behalf Of Barb Peck

Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:41

PM

infections

Subject:

[infections] Re: Information for those of you who are interested

in [unnamedperson]

To anonymous investigator:

My (computer) system is protected better than Fort Knox-

And not only couldn't I access that site, I

received 2 security

alerts attempting to.

If any one gets in- please give a summary.

Barb

> Hello everyone,

>

>

I think for those of you interested in [unnamedperson] you

> will find the following site to be of great

interest.

>

> http://mpinvestigator.tripod.com/

>

> Thanks,

>

> MPinvestigator.

[Guest guest]

I read it, and I applaud the effort and good judgement that went

into it.

Unfortunately, due in part to facts spelled out in this document, we

cannot summarize it here or discuss it in a meaningful way. My only

purpose in commenting is to acknowledge a useful and in my opinion

badly needed document and encourage those who can access it to give

it a gander.

Having said that, and at the risk of being absurdly cryptic, I would

add that I personally do not mind at all that this list is

constrained to occupy itself with topics other than those raised by

this document. It's value will be more to those who have not

discussed as extensively as we have the issues involved.

My compliments to the author(s) on a good piece of work.

> > > Hello everyone,

> > >

> > > I think for those of you interested in [unnamedperson]

you

> > > will find the following site to be of great interest.

> > >

> > > http://mpinvestigator.tripod.com/

> > >

> > > Thanks,

> > >

> > > MPinvestigator.

[Guest guest]

WOW. That is quite a read. Is it legal to give out medical advice if you have a Phd in a field other than a medical field?

Good work investigator.

Marie. mpinvestigator101 <mpinvestigator101@...> wrote:

Hello everyone, I think for those of you interested in [unnamedperson] you will find the following site to be of great interest.http://mpinvestigator.tripod.com/Thanks,MPinvestigator.__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Well....MPinvestigator's page is already been bleeped

Laurie

[Guest guest]

Laurie,

Can't say I'm surprised!

I suggest we have a plan B, like all regroup somewhere if this list was to be silenced like last time.

Nelly

[infections] Re: Information for those of you who are interested in [unnamedperson]

Well....MPinvestigator's page is already been bleeped :(Laurie

[Guest guest]

Good Idea.How about starting a private Delphi forum as a place to stay in touch in case we have to regroup?

MarieNelly Pointis <janel@...> wrote:

Laurie,

Can't say I'm surprised!

I suggest we have a plan B, like all regroup somewhere if this list was to be silenced like last time.

Nelly

[infections] Re: Information for those of you who are interested in [unnamedperson]

Well....MPinvestigator's page is already been bleeped :(Laurie__________________________________________________