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| | Quackery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Quackery, the peddling of unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medicines, cures or treatments, has existed throughout human history. | | | Quackery can be found in any culture and in every medical tradition. | | | Unregulated areas of medical practice are viewed to lend themselves to quackery, since peer review is an important component of establishing effective techniques. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery
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| | Quackery used to be a pejorative term describing medical charlatanism, i.e., health practices or remedies that have no scientific basis. | | | Often the major quality of quackery is fraud and the dispensing of useless or harmful treatments to vulnerable people who are dying. | | | What quackery lacks in scientific study it makes up for by prescribing generous portions of caring--sometime sincere but often counterfeit--and overdoses of false hope. |
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http://skepdic.com/quackery.html
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| | Medical fraud and Quackery |
| | Claiming that massage cures disease is considered quackery while claiming it may be helpful for relaxation may be appropriate. | | | Spectrum of therapies: from science based medicine to quackery | | | Although this may seem harmless and at least worth trying there are several reasons not to including the false hope it may give others who have not yet tried conventional therapies and that it reinforces the predatory practices of the quack. |
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http://your-doctor.com/patient_info/alternative_remedies/various_therapy/quackery.html
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| | QUACKERY |
| | Recognize that quackery is present when, and only when, health claims are made with no honest attempt to verify or refute them by the scientific method. | | | Do not confuse quackery with the techniques every clinician uses to try to understand and help his patient as a "whole person". | | | NOTE: This is in glaring contrast to such "holistic" procedures as scientific acupuncture, biofeedback, hypnosis, and meditation, whose proponents have never hesitated to use the methods of science, and have been proud of doing so. |
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http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/quackery.htm
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| | The History of Quackery |
| | Quackery has little to do with the effectiveness of any treatment. | | | And in a scenario that has been played out repeatedly throughout the history of Quackery, the AMA sponsored a study on chiropractic to be carried out by the Stanford Research Institute and then falsified the data to achieve negative results. | | | The Third Law of Quackery: Beware of the person calling another a "Quack," for he is most likely to be what he would dignify the other. |
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http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/quackery.htm
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| | Confessions of a Quackbuster: Quackery in Chiropractic |
| | Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of this tradition of unsubstantiated claims is that those chiropractic remedies which may, in fact, be helpful to patients (i.e., safe and effective) go untested and discredited because of the profession's willingness to promote them with nary a shred of experimental evidence. | | | Whenever chiropractors attack my criticisms of the rampant quackery in the so-called "profession", they are only revealing their ignorance of my information sources, which are chiropractors themselves, and those who understand chiropractic best. | | | If anyone doubts the continuity of quackery in the profession, he has only to turn to pages 31 and 35 of the same issue of Dynamic Chiropractic. |
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http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/06/quackery-in-chiropractic.html
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| | Some Notes on Quackery |
| | Some of quackery's success is due to the availability of mass communication and modern marketing techniques, but it is also related to the human condition. | | | Due to its specialization and impersonalization, modern medicine may drive more people toward quackery than the quacks would be able to draw to themselves, but the success of quackery still is no more a failing of medical science than the success of astrology is due to the failures of astronomy. | | | A congressional study defined a quack as "Anyone who promote medical schemes or remedies known to be false, or which are unproven, for a profit."[3] Quackery is as quackery does, and the defining behavior of quackery is promotionalism. |
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http://www.ncahf.org/articles/o-r/quackery.html
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| | I Speak of Dreams: Quackery |
| | The Sunflower Method is an holistic approach based on applied kinesiology, and the principle that the physical, mental and emotional systems are interdependent - that an imbalance in one area affects the other. | | | Depriving your dyslexic child of effective remediation is child abuse. | | | In some circles (especially chiropractic) vaccinating your children against disease is seen as child abuse (I'm not kidding!) Here is a very good article on why chiropractors should advocate vaccination (pdf format). |
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http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/quackery_
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| | Although most reject the idea that quackery is "worth a try" for a sick person [9], it is important to reinforce and mobilize those who understand quackery's harmful potential. | | | William T. Jarvis, Ph.D. It is especially disappointing when an individual trained in the health sciences turns to promoting quackery. | | | The wife entrusted her husband, who had colon cancer to a phony cancer clinic. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/mbuw/PAGES/QUACK_COMMENTS.HTM
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| | Evidence Based Medicine and Quackery |
| | Since medical authorities suggest that anything that is not based upon established scientific concepts or scientific evidence is quackery (56, 65), it is imperative that the nature of this evidence be examined in some detail. | | | The traditional rejection of nutrition as quackery and the inability of science to embrace new concepts, particularly those which are considered to lie outside established medical doctrine, continues to retard progress in medicine today. | | | The use of blood letting and purging by mainstream medicine gave birth to the various forms of alternative medicine which were considered to be quackery (60, 61, 62). |
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http://www.holistichealthtopics.com/HMG/quack.html
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| | The Watchtower and Medical Quackery |
| | The straights being of the old school and many are still against vaccinations, drugs, surgery, etc. The mixers (who out number the straights now) now "mix" Chiropractic treatments with an acceptance of orthodox medicine and will refer patients to MDs for many medical problems rather than try and cure diseases through adjusting the spine. | | | This embracing of quackery was due to Naturopaths (and JWs) having the tendency to accept anything and everything opposed to orthodox medicine that was "natural". | | | If one wants to research the twentieth century opposition to orthodox medicine and promotion of quackery in early "alternative" therapies, The Golden Age is a good, interesting and entertaining source. |
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http://www.premier1.net/~raines/quackery.html
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| | Health Quackery |
| | The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems. | | | Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery. | | | Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. |
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http://www.medlina.com/health_quackery.htm
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| | Confessions of a Quackbuster: Prince Charles Promotes Quackery |
| | provided there be no quackery in his treatment of the malady. | | | therapies claim to have proved they are any more than mere quackery. | | | I confess to being a skeptic (I have a naturalistic world view) who is concerned about healthcare consumer protection, and therefore about quackery, healthfraud, chiropractic quackery, and other forms of so-Called "Alternative" Medicine (sCAM). |
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http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/08/prince-charles-promotes-quackery.html
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| | Cancer Quackery |
| | The OTA report went on to discuss some differences in emphasis between conventional and unconventional treatments (e.g., emphasis upon quality of life versus survival time), but in no case is there a short cut to establishing true safety and effectiveness. | | | In 1954, the name was changed to the Committee on New and Unproven Methods of Treatment. | | | Morris LA, Gregory JD, Klimberg R. Focusing an Advertising Campaign to Combat Medical Quackery. |
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http://www.ncahf.org/articles/c-d/caquackery.html
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| | Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog: The 11th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle |
| | Many people are turning to "alternatives" such as chiropractic, homeopathy, "organic" foods, vitamin supplements, herbs, chelation therapy, and occult "healers" because of superstition and wishfull thinking. | | | Ali at Blendor saw 60 Minutes from CBS and experienced how Anderson Cooper did a great job of exposing a bit of alt-medicine quackery called hydrogen peroxide therapy. | | | Both have become a "testimonial" for alternative medicine, and it looks as though Kylie Minogue may be heading down that path, Orac said. |
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http://amr2you.blogspot.com/2005/06/11th-meeting-of-skeptics-circle.html
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| | Anti-Quackery Ring |
| | ACT is an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to halting the dangerous, abusive practices inflicted on children known as Attachment (Holding) Therapy, AT Therapeutic Parenting methods, and other unvalidated, pseudoscientific practices. | | | I confess to being a skeptic who is concerned about healthcare consumer protection, quackery, healthfraud, chiropractic quackery, and other forms of so-Called "Alternative Medicine" (sCAM). | | | NCAHF is a nonprofit, tax-exempt voluntary health agency that focuses on health fraud, misinformation, and quackery. |
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http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=antiquackerysite
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| | From Quackery to Bacteriology, Document 1 |
| | Scientific medicine took on aspects of quackery to gain patient acceptance, and quackery assumed aspects of scientific medicine to gain credibility. | | | Many of the quackery theories took on qualities of social reform and religious revivalism to become movements of their own. | | | Other topics covered in the exhibit include women's health, mental health, public health, and preventative medicine as advocated through physical fitness and nutrition. |
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http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack1.html
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| | Magnetic Therapy: Plausible Attraction? (Skeptical Inquirer July 1998) |
| | More studies will be needed before magnetic therapy will be accepted by a majority of the medical community, and some studies are already underway. | | | William Jarvis, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, had formerly dismissed magnet therapy as "essentially quackery." He now tentatively admits that it may have value for post-polio pain. | | | Despite these various reasons for caution, the results of this study have altered the views of many physicians. |
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| | :: Society :: Issues :: Health :: Fraud :: Quackery |
| | National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. - The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems. | | | American Council of Science and Health - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery. | | | Chirobase Practices - Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. |
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http://www.localadsearch.com/Society/Issues/Health/Fraud/Quackery
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| | Anti-Quackery Efforts in the United States |
| | Radio and television talk shows give frequent exposure to promoters of quackery, but limited opportunities for opponents of quackery to present their views. | | | ("Medical renegades and rascals" is how he sometimes referred to the promoters of health misinformation, fraud, and quackery.) Dr. Renner's expertise was in the field of family and community medicine. | | | Much of our success will depend on how effectively we promote the principles of consumer protection law and science by harnessing (a word that American quacks like to use to inspire their followers) the power of the Internet. |
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http://www.ncahf.org/papers/antiquackery.html
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| | View topic - What is Quackery? - Health Care Forums |
| | A classical example would be physical medicine or physical therapy. | | | Anything that medicine says is Quackery is Quackery regardless of the | | | The use of medicine is historically Quackery based |
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http://www.healthcareforums.org/viewtopic.php?topic=2382
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| | Quack |
| | Consumer guide to health fraud, quackery, and intelligent decision making on traditional and alternative health topics. | | | Table of Contents Subscription info Quack Eye Massagers Richard Van Vleck From American Artifacts No.41 A variety of devices designed to modify the shape of the cornea by applying pressure or vacuum were marketed for at least seven decades. | | | - emailing list about scoliosis for patients, researchers, doctors - emphasis on treatments and critique of quackery with particular interest in genetic research. |
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http://www.chauncy.myfoolmoon.com/Quack.htm
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| | Quackery Arthritis - Arthritis and arthritic conditions, medications, and treatment on MedicineNet.com |
| | These "quick fix" treatments are promoted as having great benefits, but in reality have no right to such claims. | | | Consumers should be especially cautious when products come with marketing claims such as "will cure," "ancient remedy," "has no side effects," "revolutionary new scientific breakthrough." | | | Quackery Arthritis - Arthritis and arthritic conditions, medications, and treatment on MedicineNet.com |
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| | Characterization of Quack Theories |
| | Those who have lost or never developed a critical sense create and join "schools" where quackery is born from weak theories and mistaken notions becoming instutionalized. | | | These "schools" are full of the kinds of rationalizations that people use to justify their views when nothing else is available. | | | And some people, unfortunately, never develop a critical sense. |
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http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/quack.htm
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| | Iridology Quackery |
| | On the other hand, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is too busy looking after fake doctors to even begin to look at fraudulent claims for unregulated schools in our Province. | | | Put a stop to the charade of self-regulation and fake regulatory bodies used by some holistic groups. | | | Beware of holistic Quackery - What a University of Waterloo student thinks about iridology and other quacks who set up at her university. |
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http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Iridology
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| | Pseudoscience and quackery in Psychology |
| | NCAHF is a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. | | | Our positions are based upon the principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. | | | Definitions and characteristics by which "Junk Science" can be recognized. |
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http://www.psychology.org/links/Resources/Pseudoscience
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| | The Quack-Files: Anti-Quackery Resources & Web Rings |
| | - Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions, Stephen Barrett, MD "Dr. Barrett's QuackWatch is by far the best source of skeptical information I (Steve Dunn) have found on the net. | | | ----Quackwatch - Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions, Stephen Barrett, MD Chirobase - A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic...., Stephen Barrett, MD, William T. Jarvis, PhD, and Samuel Homola, DC | | | ----Published Articles on Alternative Medicine and Quackery - Victor J.Stenger |
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| | Bob McCoy: founder of the The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices |
| | Dubbed "The Quackery Hall of Fame" by the Copley Wire Service, the museum is the world's largest display of what the human mind has devised to cure itself without the benefit of either scientific method or common sense. | | | See for yourself, stop in and "take the cure!" | | | international expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud, |
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| | veterinary medicine; therapy; quackery; medicinal plants; homeopathy; herbal drugs; acupuncture; | | | Details of the TFVS veterinary science advisors are listed and there is information on the email discussion group. |
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| | Black Triangle » Quackery |
| | While preparing a lecture on evidence based medicine, I decided to find an old medical practice that is now considered quackery. | | | Trepanation, the practice of drilling a hole in the skull to expose the brain, seemed to fit the bill, and off I went to find a suitably gory image to keep the students awake. |
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| | Quackwatch |
| | Current Issues in Alternative Medicine (CINAM) (Quackery viewed from a Christian perspective) | | | Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions | | | The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Quackery in 20th-Century America (posted 2/1/02) FEATURE |
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| | Structured Water Pseudoscience and Quackery |
| | For science teachers: see Using pseudoscience as a teaching aid for some interesting ways to make use of pseudoscience sites, and some chemistry-related examples. | | | One of these pages has some interesting information and links relating to water clusters, "polywater", and CACA. | | | Urine Therapy - another form of magical water quackery; a typical site is Shirley's Wellness Cafe (I don't think I will be dining there soon!) At the |
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| | Quackery |
| | Often these questionable ideas are purported to be based on science, philosophy or religion, however no objective observer can find such support in the philosophical or religious concepts that are used to justify them; let alone by vigorous scientific inquiry. | | | For a more detailed description of quackery in mental health or psychotherapy, an excellent book is "Crazy" Therapies: What are they? | | | If you go to Dr. Barrett’s website http://www.quackwatch.org/index.html you will see many examples of Quackery in the health field and a few in mental health. |
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http://www.ric.edu/jriolo/quackery.htm
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| | Quackery Bookstore - Hulda Clark - Cancer cures - scams and more |
| | If you order the book through us, you will be supporting our fight against health fraud and cancer quackery. | | | Quackery Bookstore - Hulda Clark - Cancer cures - scams and more | | | Linking quackery to changing currents in the scientific, cultural, and governmental environment, Young discusses why people fall victim to health fraud. |
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http://www.healthwatcher.net/HW-books/books-quackery.html
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| | From Quackery to Bacteriology, Document 3b |
| | Title page of Samuel Thomson's New Guide to Health; or Botanic Family Physician,1835. | | | As Fowler stated, there were "connexions and relations which exist between the conditions and developments of the BRAIN and the manifestations of the MIND." Phrenology was even applied to art as sculptors and painters did phrenological profiles of their subjects to insure their art would reflect the traits of the subject. | | | He believed disease resulted from a clogged system and was cured by purging and sweating. |
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http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack3b.html
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| | Quackery quotes & quotations |
| | Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. | | | Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. | | | The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us. |
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http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/quackery
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| | Today's pharmaceutical industry mirrors the hyping and marketing of radioactive products in the early 1900's |
| | This book will show readers how they can actually sculpt a better body with more lean muscle mass, less fat, and more power without changing their exercise program or even their total caloric intake... | | | Today, however, the quackery is more complex, and because so many scientists are involved, it seems credible. | | | Yet drug companies can make any chemical appear useful by manipulating test results or designing clinical trials in a certain way that's guaranteed to produce the results they're looking for. |
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http://www.newstarget.com/001457.html
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| | Nutrition Quackery |
| | Define vitalism and identify three non-scientific health care practices that are rooted in vitalism. | | | Identify three different categories of harm done by quackery and give an example of each category. | | | Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:1. |
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http://www.athomeseminars.com/newweb/No_Flash/NQx.htm
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| | Medical Quackery |
| | There are plenty of web sites promoting unproven medical products, and other sites that help you to tell what's for real and what isn't. | | | Medical Quackery Alive and Well is a good introductory article on the subject, from the Mayo Clinic's Health Oasis. | | | The Mayo Clinic used to have a list of places to report quaackery, which is here. |
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http://www.cageyconsumer.com/quackery.html
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| | MedHist: The gateway to Internet resources for the History of Medicine |
| | The Web site of the Museum of questionable medical devices, a collection of "quack medical devices" originally curated by Bob McCoy and recently donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota. | | | The site is divided into the following main sections: scientific medicine, home health care, quackery, patent medicine, women's health care, mental health, physical fitness and nutrition, the public health movement, medicine in the civil war, nursing, and medical education. | | | From quackery to bacteriology provides a basic narrative of the history of nineteenth century medical history in the United States. |
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http://medhist.ac.uk/browse/mesh/detail/D011781.html
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| | Fraud & Quackery: Internet Resources: The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
| | QuackWatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions, by Stephen Barrett, M.D. Skeptic's Dictionary: Alternative Medicine by Robert T. Carroll | | | American Council on Science and Health"founded in 1978 by scientists who became concerned that many important public policies related to health and the environment did not have a sound scientific basis. | | | Fraud and Quackery: Internet Resources: The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
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| | Water pseudoscience and quackery |
| | A-Z index and cross-reference of products and processes relating to water treatment and quackery, ranging from the merely unsupported-by-science to the definitely weird | | | It is hoped that the information presented here will help consumers make more informed decisions before offering up their credit cards to those in the business of flogging pseudoscience. | | | Background: information to help you avoid being scammed |
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| | Dave's Psoriasis Info - Anti-Quackery Articles |
| | Quackery is, by no means, confined to psoriasis therapies, nor (of course) are psoriasis treatments immune from quackery. | | | Also listed will be articles about psoriasis-specific therapies in which the quackery is especially outrageous or otherwise illustrative. | | | Economic Effects of a Psoriasis Cure - A cure for a disease can make money. |
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| | FDA/CFSAN Quackery Targets Teens |
| | But the availability of look-alike drugs is still a threat to the health and safety of teenagers. | | | Quackery, an age-old business, costs Americans billions of dollars each year and immeasurable losses suffered from harmful products and delayed medical treatment. | | | It is during the teenage years that people start to become serious consumers, and there's no better time to learn how to avoid quackery. |
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| | Technorati Tag: quackery |
| | Another in his outstanding series on Quackery and Pseudoscience A Photon in the Darkness: A Field Guide to Quackery... | | | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | A Photon in the Darkness: A Field Guide to Qu... |
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| | Anti-Quackery Committee |
| | What they can't seem to say is that they have nothing to worry about because what they do and sell actually works. | | | My qualifications are that I am a scientifically-literate, concerned citizen with a particular interest in medical quackery. | | | Nobody thought that the purveyors of quackery would accept this committee without saying anything. |
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| | Amazon.com: American Health Quackery: Books: James Harvey Young |
| | This collection of essays from a noted expert in quackery studies (The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, LJ 3/1/68, now available in paperback from Princeton) covers medical quackery from the turn of the century to the present. | | | Young, an emeritus professor at Emory University, became fascinated with medical fakeries and fraudulent healing potions in the 1920s, when he first spied a traveling medicine man. In this collection of essays he examines health quackery's evolution to modern times. | | | With the current push to reduce the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory power over experimental AIDS drugs and the increased regulation of nutrition statements in advertising, the topic of quackery is very timely. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691047820?v=glance
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| | Nutrition Quackery |
| | Unsubstantiated claims may create a false sense of security or may lead Consumers to avoid precautions that are known to prevent the disease. | | | Weight loss schemes and devices probably are the most popular form of quackery. | | | Millions seek a painless, effortless way to shed unwanted pounds. |
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http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09350.html
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