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Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
http://www.quackwatch.org/
Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/
Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/readbooks_page.htm
Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
http://www.chirobase.org/
The FDA Backgrounder lists the most common kinds of health fraud. Provides advice on how to spot a quack and where to file a complaint.
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html
Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.
http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/fraud.html
Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html
The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
http://www.ncahf.org/
Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html
Monitors the media for reports of medical frauds and quacks. Includes features on individual quacks, pending lawsuits, scientific rebuttals of 'dubious' claims, and related links.
http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/
FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/06/opcureall.htm
Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/agepages/healthqy.htm
Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery, activists and hype.
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues...categoryID.2/category_detail.asp
Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
http://seniorhealth.about.com/cs/conditions/a/catsurg_fraud.htm
Devoted to the scientific examination of unproven alternative medicine and mental health therapies, which have become increasingly popular in the United States and the world.
http://www.csmmh.org/
Subject: Alternative Medicine. Long report which concludes that, "There is very little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies."
http://www.naturalhealthvillage....ports/council_of_sci_affairs.htm
Peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to distinguishing scientifically-supported claims from scientifically-unsupported claims in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, and allied disciplines.
http://www.srmhp.org/
Nearly 100 listings.
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