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| • | Quackery is the practice of promoting medicine which lacks any evidence of effectiveness. Those who practice quackery, the "quacks", are in the business of selling false hope to ill-informed people. The word derives from quacksalver, an archaic word originally of Dutch origin (spelled kwakzalver in contemporary Dutch), meaning "boaster who applies a salve.": The Charlatan, 1757]] It is often difficult to distinguish between those who knowingly promote unproven medical therapies and those who are mistaken as to their effectiveness. In libel cases in US courts against people who accused others of being guilty of quackery, the courts have ruled that accusing someone of quackery or calling him a quack is not equal to calling him a fraud — that in order to be both a quack and a fraud, the quack has to know that the medical services provided are unproven and ineffective. Source: [wikipedia: quackery] |
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| Anti-Quackery Webring | ||
| nearly 100 listings. | ||
| Chirobase Practices | ||
| skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. | ||
| Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Quackwatch | ||
| covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds. | ||
| 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. | ||
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