by Dennis Beaver | bioelectronic medicine, complaint, consumer, credit cards, doctor, false advertising, fraud, medical care, medicine, scam
May 27, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I am the victim of a vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) scam.” Vagus nerve scam? Most of us know about vagus nerves from high school biology — that they are the longest in our bodies, but not much more. However, for the past few...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, communication, consumer, lawyers
December 3, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “Law is adversarial. Many lawyers have type-A personalities, feeling they just have to win, and some feel they will increase their chances of success by being absolute jerks to opposing counsel. Nothing could be further from the...
by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, consumer, lemon law, safety
April 15, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver Please join me for a walk down memory lane, to 1965 and the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, the frightening book by lawyer and consumer advocate Ralph Nader about just how little auto manufacturers cared about safety. Nader’s...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
June 14, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver First, get inside the minds of car dealers. In survey after survey, buying a new car is consistently viewed as a highly unpleasant experience, even with all the information available online. “What car buyers find so frustrating and...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
September 03, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I was pulled over on California State Route 33 in the Central Valley by a traffic officer using radar,” a Hanford reader’s email began. “While the posted speed limit there was 65,...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, return policy, technology
January 26, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver
“Mr. Beaver, for the longest time we wanted to replace all 50 of our light bulbs with LEDs but the retail price of around $12 each was a deal breaker. We have used the little coiled CFLs, which do save energy but are annoying...
