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	Quackery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quackery is a term used to describe the unethical practice of promising health-related benefits for which there is none or little basis.
		To avoid semantic problems, quackery could be broadly defined as "anything involving overpromotion in the field of health." This definition would include questionable ideas as well as questionable products and services, regardless of the sincerity of their promoters.
		Quackery has also become a serious problem in the field of autism, where medical sciences have made limited progress in the face of intractable neurodevelopmental disorders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quackery (2119 words)

	Quackery Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Much quackery is involved in telling people something is bad for them (such as food additives) and selling a substitute (such as "organic" or "natural" food).
		Quackery is also involved in misleading advertising of dietary supplements, homeopathic products, and some nonprescription drugs.
		Quackery entails the use of methods that are not scientifically accepted.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/quackdef.html (489 words)

	quackery
		Quackery used to be a pejorative term describing medical charlatanism, i.e., health practices or remedies that have no scientific basis.
		Quackery usually involves integrating metaphysics and such things as sympathetic magic or spiritualism with healing.
		Often the major quality of quackery is fraud and the dispensing of useless or harmful treatments to vulnerable people who are dying.
	skepdic.com /quackery.html (281 words)

	From Quackery to Bacteriology, Document 3b
		Quackery grew in fashion because its ideas reflected the spirituality of the period.
		The first popular quackery movement in America was Thomsonianism, founded by Samuel Thomson (1769— 1843).
		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.
	www.cl.utoledo.edu /canaday/quackery/quack3b.html (798 words)

	Quackery
		Quackery is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		As in augury and divination, the laws of correspondences and of the interrelation of all parts of the cosmos imply that it is possible to interpret the invisible and to forecast the future by observing visible signs.
		Quackery is the practice of promoting medicine which lacks evidence of effectiveness.
	www.experiencefestival.com /quackery (891 words)

	Medical fraud and Quackery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Medical quackery exists in various forms and typically involves a medical scheme or remedy that is known to be false or unproven and sold for a profit.
		Some promoters of quackery are sincere and believe in what they are doing; however, they really don't have a clue.
		Stephen Barrett, M.D., an expert on medical quackery and author of several books and operator of a website on the subject, observes that the current surge of interest in "alternative medicine" by the media and the public has "legitimatized" some quack treatments.
	your-doctor.com /patient_info/alternative_remedies/various_therapy/quackery.html (1483 words)

	QUACKERY
		Quackery may reasonably by defined as the making of health claims without an honest effort to validate them by the usual methods of science.
		Quackery victims are urged to help their neighbors by introducing them to 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.
	www.pathguy.com /lectures/quackery.htm (1972 words)

	Cancer Quackery
		NCAHF believes that the term "quackery" is still accurate, and best understood by the general public in reference to that which should be avoided.
		Quackery is the promotion of false or unproven remedies for profit [1].This includes any method that has not met the requirements of the United States Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) for either experimental or clinical purposes.
		The great tragedy of cancer quackery is that patients needlessly die as a result of being diverted from effective standard treatment.
	www.ncahf.org /articles/c-d/caquackery.html (3998 words)

	The History of Quackery
		Today, quackery has become, for the most part, anything that takes money or prestige away from the one screaming "quack" or from those represented by the one screaming "quack." This is the historical definition of quackery.
		The Second Law of Quackery (also known as the law of skew): The chances of a study being skewed are directly proportional to the amount of money to be lost or gained by the outcome.
		In 1963 the AMA Committee on Quackery was established by its Board of Trustees for the sole purpose "to study the chiropractic problem." H Doyle Taylor, who had served ten years on the AMA’s Department of Investigation was appointed the Secretary of the Committee.
	www.mnwelldir.org /docs/history/quackery.htm (5857 words)

	Quackery Bookstore - Hulda Clark - Cancer cures - scams and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		An expert on the history of medical frauds finds quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in earlier and allegedly more naive eras.
		Linking quackery to changing currents in the scientific, cultural, and governmental environment, Young discusses why people fall victim to health fraud.
		There are not many books about cancer quackery out there, but lots of terrible ones written by quacks.
	www.healthwatcher.net /HW-books/books-quackery.html (433 words)

	Some Notes on Quackery
		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.
		Politicians who pander to quackery by passing so-called "medical freedom" laws, strip consumers of protection by allowing questionable health claims, exempt dietary supplements from having to prove safety and/or efficacy, or allow nonscientific health care practitioners to treat human ailments under the guise of "any willing provider" laws, are rewarding outlaw elements in society.
		The semantics of quackery (Jarvis) LLU Course Handout 1994.
	www.ncahf.org /articles/o-r/quackery.html (2534 words)

	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.
		It was not until the end of the century that scientific advances began to catch up with the medical needs of the public.
	www.cl.utoledo.edu /canaday/quackery/quack1.html (862 words)

	TRN - October 1997 - Quackery: How Should It Be Defined?
		Quackery and malpractice overlap but are not identical.
		Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is a nationally renowned author, editor, and consumer advocate.
		Barrett is a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a Scientific Advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and a Fellow of CSICOP.
	www.reall.org /newsletter/v05/n10/quackery.html (584 words)

	Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog: The 11th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
		The hottest topics this time around are quackery and especially anti-vaccinationism, then creationism, other pseudoscience, religion, history, and with a few others to round out the list.
		Quackery is not confined to individuals who fit the popular image of a quack.
		Quackery often leads to harm because it turns ill people away from legitimate and trusted therapeutic procedures.
	amr2you.blogspot.com /2005/06/11th-meeting-of-skeptics-circle.html (2721 words)

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		The saddest form of health quackery preys on the desperation of a cancer victim clutching at life.
		An Oklahoma woman in 1969 claimed she had a vision from God revealing that cancer is caused by a rare germ.
		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.
	members.lycos.co.uk /mbuw/PAGES/QUACK_COMMENTS.HTM (2772 words)

	I Speak of Dreams: Quackery
		There's also the fact that quacks speak of simple certainties whereas scientists speak of complex probabilities; the former works well with media whereas the latter doesn't (that's also why a biologist is almost guaranteed to lose a televised debate with a creationist; it's impossible to explain evolution in a few soundbites).
		She perpetuated two destructive myths about dyslexia: that it has to do with visual perception, and it has something to do with reversal of letters.
		I am working on another essay on the celebration of out-of-control children which is the "Indigo Children" phenomenon, and how many Americans have lost the knack of good parenting, or refuse to see the consequences of the way they treat their children.
	lizditz.typepad.com /i_speak_of_dreams/quackery_ (6172 words)

	Confessions of a Quackbuster: Prince Charles Promotes Quackery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He will already go down in history books as a promoter of nonsense and quackery, but if he dies because of it, his death won't be in vain, since it will also serve as a famous example of the consequences of believing lies.
		Prof Raps Charles On 'Quackery' Jul 09, 2004 PRINCE Charles was yesterday accusedby a leading cancer specialist of "overstepping the mark" in his public...
		Junkscience.com -- June 2000""The perils of medical quackery" - "The swindlers and pseudotherapists are all...
	quackfiles.blogspot.com /2005/08/prince-charles-promotes-quackery.html (6305 words)

	Confessions of a Quackbuster: Quackery in Chiropractic
		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.
		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.
	quackfiles.blogspot.com /2005/06/quackery-in-chiropractic.html (632 words)

	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.
		Beware of holistic Quackery - What a University of Waterloo student thinks about iridology and other quacks who set up at her university.
		If you're thirsty for knowledge on other metaphysical quackery, then follow this webmaster to his site dedicated to Rene Quinton, father of "marine plasma" therapy.
	www.healthwatcher.net /Quackerywatch/Iridology (1992 words)

	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 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).
		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.
	www.holistichealthtopics.com /HMG/quack.html (8127 words)

	Anti-Quackery Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		What they can't seem to say is that they have nothing to worry about because what they do and sell actually works.
		An organisation was set up to fight the committee, and the media release announcing its formation lists a "Who's Who" of the quackery industry.
		My qualifications are that I am a scientifically-literate, concerned citizen with a particular interest in medical quackery.
	www.ratbags.com /rsoles/quackery (443 words)

	Quackery
		I’m going to talk about people who claim to be able to cure cancer and AIDS and asthma and autism and MS and arthritis and diabetes and any number of other diseases and ailments.
		Her son is already claiming that the web site named “Dr Clark Research Association” (the name of one of her businesses) has nothing to do with her and the man who runs it can swing in the wind.
		She has no science, she gouges money, she runs from any request for evidence and her only responses to criticism are ad hominem attacks and lawsuits.
	www.ratbags.com /rsoles/comment/quackery.htm (2860 words)

	The Watchtower and Medical Quackery
		Like their current ban on blood transfusions for its members, this past quackery has put the lives of millions unnecessarily at risk, given the average JW's faith in what the Society tells them and mistrust of what everyone else claims.
		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".
		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.
	www.premier1.net /~raines/quackery.html (3774 words)

	Medical Quackery Alive And Well
		Some promoters of quackery are sincere — they fully believe in what they are doing — but are misguided nonetheless.
		Nevertheless, they are not cure-alls and should be used only in the context of a program of medical care.
		False fear — Some victims of quackery are not even ill. Unscrupulous promoters try to foster doubt or anxiety in these people.
	edumacation.com /MedicalQuackeryAliveAndWell (1173 words)

	MedHist: The gateway to Internet resources for the History of Medicine
		From quackery to bacteriology provides a basic narrative of the history of nineteenth century medical history in the United States.
		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.
		The text explores aspects of many different cultures and religions embracing a period from classical antiquity to the New England witch trials; from the Greeks and the Romans to the miracles of the early Christian saints; from the Arabian Nights to the legend of Merlin of the Arthurian legend.
	medhist.ac.uk /browse/mesh/detail/D011781.html (1060 words)

	Quackery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Now, quackery is a strong term and I am aware that despite the definition itself implying nothing about the promoter of the unsupported ideas sincerity, the connotation many have is more than that.
		In short, it is "anything involving over-promotion in the field of health." This definition would include questionable ideas as well as questionable products and services, regardless of the sincerity of their promoters.
		It is the lack of support for an idea; the failure or unwillingness to offer support for ideas by their proponents, which raises the idea to the level of possible quackery.
	www.ric.edu /jriolo/quackery.htm (1626 words)

	Characterization of Quack Theories
		Warning them away from quackery is a skeptical eye informed by knowledge of the myriad errors that have misled others in the past.
		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.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/quack.htm (2972 words)

	Health Quackery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
		Features a health fraud discussion list and an alert announcement list for those interested in the fight against unscientific medical practices and quackery.
		Provides a forum for discussing health frauds, quackery, and unscientific health matters.
	www.medlina.com /health_quackery.htm (325 words)

	Dave's Psoriasis Info - Anti-Quackery Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Quackery is, by no means, confined to psoriasis therapies, nor (of course) are psoriasis treatments immune from quackery.
		Also, much about psoriasis quackery is applicable to other diseases, since quacks tend to use the same tactics over and over.
		Also listed will be articles about psoriasis-specific therapies in which the quackery is especially outrageous or otherwise illustrative.
	psorsite.com /antiquack.html (214 words)

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