Tom Valentine
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Tom Valentine is the owner of a mail-order vitamin business, writer, commentator and radio host with an anti-establishment perspective, sometimes aligning with issues from left and right ends of the political spectrum, as well as libertarianism. His main journalistic interests have been unorthodox health care methods and conspiracy theories. He is a believer in laetrile as a cancer cure, a believer in applied kinesiology, and believes that soy products are unhealthy for human consumption. All three of these views are at odds with the mainstream medical community.
He is the founder of Carotec, a mail-order seller of vitamins and alternative health products.
During the 1990s he hosted a talk radio show, "Radio Free America". It was carried on shortwave radio station WWCR and a handful of AM stations, and sponsored by The Spotlight newspaper. Radio Free America was one of the first talk shows to give sympathetic coverage to the Branch Davidians during the Waco siege. Valentine also gave considerable airtime to guests from the Christian Patriot movement such as Bo Gritz, as well as to alternative health practitioners and people with unorthodox views on science.
Also during the 1990s he published a magazine, Search for Health, on alternative health subjects.
He is the author of several books, among them:
- Psychic Surgery (H. Regnery, 1973)
- The Great Pyramid: Man's Monument to Man (Pinnacle Books, 1978, ISBN 0-523-00517-2)
- Applied Kinesiology : Muscle Response in Diagnosis, Therapy, and Preventive Medicine with Carole Valentine and Douglas Hetrick (Healing Arts Press, 1985, ISBN 0-89281-328-8)
- Medicine's Missing Link: Metabolic Typing and Your Personal Food Plan with Carole Valentine (HarperCollins, 1987, ISBN 0-7225-1031-4)
- Search for Health: A Classic Anthology (self-published, 1995, ISBN 0-9648325-0-X)
