Lazymanandmoney.com, Brian Macfarland Was Less Than Truthful in His ‘Crafted Statement’ About LifeVantage

Well, in Brian’s ‘crafted statement’ he made the case that there was no wrongdoing that was found about him by the court.  He neglected to post the statements of the judge who ruled on the case.  Let’s have a look at what the judge said:

“…Our statement of facts accepts as true the evidence favorable to Lifevantage.”

“…the declarations Lifevantage submitted adequately demonstrated that Macfarland published defamatory statements of fact about Lifevantage, and that Lifevantage suffered damages as a result of Macfarlane’s statements.”

“Thus, Lifevantage presented evidence that it does not encourage illegal or false claims by it’s distributors and in fact actually prohibits them.”

“In light of Dr. McCord’s declaration, a reasonable trier of fact might conclude Macfarlane’s statements were not substantially true and were defamatory.”

Did you here that Brian, your statements were “not substantially true”.  That’s lawyer talk for “you lied”.

So in the end, Lazyman is, in my view,  just as we suspected, a liar.  At least that’s what the judge said.  You decide for yourself.

Lazyman’s ‘Crafted Statement’ about Lifevantage….aka ‘Sour Grapes’

Well, here is Lazymoron’s ‘crafted response’ regarding the Lifevantage lawsuit.  Read it and I’ll fill you in on the facts.

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LifeVantage/Protandim Statement  Written by Lazy Man
You may be wondering why I have removed certain statements concerning LifeVantage from this website. As you may know, LifeVantage sued me to force me to remove certain statements from my website. I defended against the lawsuit by filing what is known as an anti-SLAPP motion, which, if it had been successful, would have caused the case to be dismissed at the outset. However, the California Superior Court for San Mateo County ruled against my motion. I appealed, but the First District Court of Appeal recently upheld the trial court. More information concerning the case is available at this court website. (LifeVantage Corporation v. MacFarland, No. A141057 in the Court of Appeal, CIV 521137 in the Superior Court).
I asserted in my motion that the LifeVantage defamation suit was without merit, and I advanced that position in good faith. I disagree with the decisions of the Superior Court and Court of Appeal that declined to throw the entire lawsuit out at the outset. Unfortunately, the result of the Court of Appeal decision is that the lawsuit would move forward, potentially all the way to a trial, and I simply could not afford the cost of defending the lawsuit any further. Because of the personal expense that further litigation would have entailed, and for no other reason, I have reached a settlement with LifeVantage. Under the settlement, both parties have agreed to remove certain statements from the internet. Neither party has conceded any issue of fact or law. Unfortunately, the terms of the settlement restrict my ability to comment on matters that may be of interest to you, so thank you for understanding why I may not respond to your inquiries, comments, etc.

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So, to borrow a phrase from the late Paul Harvey, here’s ‘The rest of the story’.

You see Brian C Macfarland has a history of going after network marketing companies.  He just doesn’t like them.  He’s written all sorts of nasty things about many companies.  Some of these companies have initiated lawsuits against lazyman.  These companies hoped that the threat of a lawsuit would cause Brian to remove the defamatory posts he had on his sites.  This did not happen and these other companies did not pursue the legal action they threatened.  Thus, Brian felt emboldened and when the Lifevantage lawsuit came, he thought he could just do the same thing, ‘wait it out’.  So, Lifevantage meticulously laid out the case against Brian, how he misrepresented, lied, defamed, and wrote libelous statements about Lifevantage and individuals involved with the company.  Unfortunately for Brian, Lifevantage didn’t roll over and play dead like those other companies had in the past.  Lifevantage was serious about shutting this bozo down.  So, the next ploy Brian tried was to ask to have the case dismissed on the grounds that it was a frivolous lawsuit that had no merit.  Well, the lower court felt that Lifevantage did have a legitimate case against Brian and decreed that the case should proceed to trial.  Lifevantage was ready, willing, and able to proceed with the case in court.  Brian, not so much.  Now, here is where Brian made a mistake.  At this point he CHOSE to appeal the decision of the lower court.  So, the higher court looked at the case.  The higher court upheld the decision of the lower court to have the case proceed to trial.  Having lost the appeal to have the case dismissed, Brian was now responsible to cover the legal costs of Lifevantage.  Up until that point, he was only responsible for his own legal costs.  (I’ve heard that he had a friend who was his attorney doing his work pro bono up until that point.  If so, he really had no skin in the game until the higher court upheld the lower court’s decision.)  It was Brian’s own arrogance that could have cost him literally hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Lifevantage blessed Brian at this point.  They could have been hard-nosed and made him pay those hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, but instead, they offered a settlement with Brian.  Now, I know no details of the settlement but my suspicion is that Lifevantage probably said that they would not make Brian pay those legal fees if he agreed to take down all of his Lifevantage posts and agree to not post about Lifevantage in the future.  If Brian had just allowed the case to proceed to trial after the lower court refused to dismiss the case, things would have been fine for Brian, provided he had a strong case.  Well, why do you think he tried to have the case dismissed?  It seems obvious to me.  I think Brian realized that Lifevantage had a very strong defamation and libel case against him that he could not win.  So, he tried to dismiss, then on losing that battle, agreed to settle.  So, despite all the complaining Brian does in his ‘crafted statement’, the reality is he lost, Lifevantage won, and justice prevailed.  It is my hope that other companies Brian has defamed will now go after him just as Lifevantage has.  It is also my hope that the individuals who Brian has gone after will now realize they can defeat this bully and bring their own personal lawsuits against him.  Imagine lazyman having to defend multiple lawsuits in multiple states simultaneously.  Seems that would be hard to me.

So, Brian, with all due respect, all of your whining in your ‘crafted statement’ is really just ‘sour grapes’.  I do plan to send you a pound of swiss cheese to go with your whine.  Just let me know to what address you would like it delivered.

Have a wonderful day Brian.  My day is FANTASTIC!

Lazymanandmoney, Brian MacFarland is Now Qualified to Interpret Scientific Studies!!!!

I apologize for my nearly two year absence from this blog, but frankly I’ve had much more important things to do in the last two years than pay attention to anything the Lazymoron, Brian Macfarland has to say.  (I would consider taking out the trash to be more important than wasting my time writing a post on this incredible loser.)

Well, I just had to break my silence for this one.  First let me preface this by saying I invited Mr. MacFarland to a debate on the issue of the scientific studies associated with Protandim and Nrf2.  He declined.  I made that offer to him two years ago.  I sent an email to his blog.  He didn’t post my comments but sent me a personal response declining to debate me.  That in itself should tell you something.  He paints himself as an expert on all things scientific and medical because he knows people in those fields.  (That’s like saying that if a middle school class has a visit to the white house that the members of the class are somehow qualified to be President of the United States.)

His biggest “hero” is Dr. Harriet Hall.  Dr. Hall is a retired family practice physician.  In my research of the medical literature, she has NEVER ONCE published a scientific study herself.  She has written countless articles bashing alternative medicine and this is her primary work.  She has been an outspoken critic of alternative medicine, often questioning its effectiveness. These are her words, “If it were shown to be truly effective, it would be part of regular medicine.”  Well, if Dr. Hall has been paying attention the last 10 years or so, she would have seen countless studies on the effectiveness of numerous nutritional supplements and dietary therapies that have been effective in treating and preventing disease.  Two studies I would direct her to specifically are the GISSI Prevention Trial and the Lyon Heart study.  Personally, I feel Dr. Hall is asleep at the wheel.  There is a huge trend in allopathic medicine in which medical doctors have begun to recognize the inherent value of natural therapies combined with standard medical therapies.  This is called Integrative Medicine.  Fellowship programs are sprouting up all across the country in Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine.  (Functional medicine gets to the root cause of medical problems and attempts to treat the root cause not the end result of the disease through a combination of natural and medical therapies.)  Many major medical schools now offer fellowship programs in integrative and functional medicine.  Some of these schools include Mayo, George Washington University, Yale, Duke, University of Arizona, etc.  The list goes on and on.  So, Lazymoron’s hero, Dr. Hall, is living in the dark ages of medicine.  For Brian to hitch his wagon to that pony speaks volumes.  Furthermore, Does Harriet even know what Nrf2 is?  Brian certainly doesn’t.  Do Brian or Harriet know that the first week of 2015 there was the first ever international conference on Nrf2 in England attended by hundreds of Nrf2 researchers?  Do Brian or Harriet know that two researchers presented studies at this conference on Protandim as an Nrf2 activator?

Here is the really interesting thing that Brian posted as a response to someone questioning his credentials to interpret scientific studies.  First, he sited Harriet Hall and her disbelief and hatred for anything natural or alternative.  Then he stated that his majors in college were in computer science and psychology.  While he recognized that perhaps that may not qualify him for interpretation of the medical literature, he did state that he worked for a while as a pharmacy technician and because of that, and the fact that his lawyer went to Yale Law School, that somehow qualifies him to interpret scientific studies.  (This is right along with Dr. Hall’s vast experience having NEVER published one solitary scientific study herself!)  So there you have it.  Brian MacFarland is qualified to be an expert in science and medicine because he was a pharmacy technician, likes Harriet Hall, and his lawyer went to Yale Law school!  UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will leave you with this.  Cognitive Dissonance.

Cognitive Dissonance is when people hold a core belief that is very strong.  When they are presented with evidence that goes against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.  Accepting this new evidence would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance.  Because it is so important to protect this core belief they rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit with their core belief.  Brian’s cognitive dissonance is from his core beliefs that 1) nutritional supplements don’t work, and 2) his visceral hatred for network marketing.

Brian MacFarland, aka Lazyman, aka Lazymoron, and Harriet Hall both have, in my opinion, extreme cases of cognitive dissonance.