• American Council of Science and Health - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery, activists and hype.
  • Anti-Quackery Webring - Nearly 100 listings.
  • Avoiding Quackery - Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Health Quackery - Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
  • How to Spot Health Fraud - 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.
  • 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.
  • "Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud - FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
  • The Quack-Files - Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
  • 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.
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
  • Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs - Subject: Alternative Medicine. Long report which concludes that, "There is very little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies." (October, 1996)


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