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Monday, September 29, 2014

Why I'm not participating in Jason Schmidt's dubious documentary project about my father [Part II]: The project was funded by my father's press agent, who says she's personal friends with Schmidt

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Longtime Heimlich Institute publicist Melinda Zemper wrote me that she's personal friends with Jason Schmidt, who's making a docum...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Why I'm not participating in Jason Schmidt's dubious documentary project about my father [Part I]: He's willing to accept funding from my father -- and from me

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Jason Schmidt and Cincinnati Red's player Todd Frazier, who made headlines a couple years ago for performing the Heimlich maneuver on...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Liar's Dice, Part II: Boise TV contradicts claims by mayor and fire chief re: "Heimlich drowning" -- plus investigations updates

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A Boise TV station has confirmed that firefighter Brent Matthews said he performed the Heimlich maneuver on a near-drowning victim who died ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

My request to the NJ Attorney General's Consumer Affairs Division to investigate problematic training of lifeguards at Jersey Shore water parks

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Steve C. Lee (photo from his online bio ) From a letter I sent yesterday -- click here to download a copy: Steve C. Lee Acting Direc...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

What do a prominent medical historian/author, the PBS ombudsman, and actress Halle Berry have in common? My NewsHour corrections request saga! [UPDATED]

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source Never underestimate the lengths to which some academics and media professionals will go: A) To avoid admitting they made mista...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

YouTube finds in my favor after KTVB-TV Boise filed a copyright infringement claim against a 20 second clip I edited from their 6/24/14 news report about a firefighter who stated he performed the Heimlich maneuver on a drowning victim

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

SCOOP: Annabel Melongo found NOT GUILTY in Save-A-Life Foundation computer tampering case

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From an e-mail I just received from Annabel Melongo's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean (slightly edited for clarity): Today Cook County J...
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Peter M. Heimlich
"I've been investigating medical fraud and quackery for 25 years. Peter Heimlich and his wife Karen uncovered the biggest case I've ever seen" - Robert S. Baratz MD PhD, National Council Against Health Fraud

In 2002, Karen and I began researching the career of my father, Henry J. Heimlich MD, famous for "the Heimlich maneuver." To our astonishment, we uncovered a 50-year history of fraud which revealed that dad (who died in 2016) was a remarkable -- and dangerous -- medical charlatan and con man.

Since Spring 2003, my outreach to journalists has resulted in hundreds of mainstream print and broadcast media reports based on our research, some of which have won journalism awards.

Via my blog, since 2010 I've done original document-based reporting, mostly about fraud and other misconduct. (A New Jersey newspaper called me "an investigative blogger.")

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