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On the Web
- Alternative Medicine and Quackery - Alternative medicine and quackery: what various alternative healing methods exist? For what diseases? Mainly critical viewpoints.
- From Quackery to Bacteriology - The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America - Traces the development of medicine through printed works.
- Canadian Quackery Watch - 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.
- American Council of Science and Health - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery, activists and hype.
- 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.
- The Quack-Files - Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
- Quantum Quackery - Skeptical overview of QM and consciousness connection.
- Anti-Quackery Resources - A collection of anti-quackery links and tools.
- Anti-Quackery Webring - Nearly 100 listings.
- The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice - Peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to distinguishing scientifically-supported claims from scientifically-unsupported claims in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, and allied disciplines.
Wikipedia Articles
- Radioactive quackery - Radioactive quackery refers to various products sold during the early 20th century, after the discovery of radioactivity, which promised radioactivity as a cure for various ills. It is now well known that radioactivity can actually be harmful and cause, among other things, cancer.
- Quackery - Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe questionable medical practices. According to Random House Dictionary, a "quack" is considered a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a ...
- Quantum mysticism - "Quantum mysticism" and "quantum quackery" are pejorative terms referring to the practice of selectively borrowing ideas from quantum physics to support New Age and other pseudoscientific beliefs. This trend was once also described by physicist and skeptic Murray Gell-Mann as "quantum flapdoodle".
- Radithor - Radithor was a well known patent medicine/snake oil that is possibly the best known example of radioactive quackery. It consisted of triple distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie each of the Radium 226 and 228 isotopes, as well as 1 microcurie of isothiouronium, a cheaper radioactive compound.
- Dishonesty - Dishonesty is a word which in common usage may be defined as the act or to act without honesty; a lack of probity, to cheat, lying or being deliberately deceptive; lacking in integrity; to be knavish, perfidious, corrupt or treacherous; charlatanism or quackery.