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The National Council Against Health Fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is a voluntary private nonprofit health agency that focuses on what they consider to be health misinformation, fraud, and quackery related to public health problems. NCAHF unites consumers with health professionals, educators, researchers, attorneys, and others who believe that everyone has a stake in the quality of the health marketplace. NCAHF's positions on consumer health issues are based on principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Council_Against_Health_Fraud

healthyNJ--Information for Healthy Living The National Council Against Health Fraud - The National Council Against Health Fraud is a nonprofit, tax-exempt voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation, and quackery as public health problems. MEDLINEplus: Health Fraud and MEDLINEPlus: Medical Device Safety - Developed by the National Library of Medicine, these consumer health sites directs the user to selected online resources on many common diseases, conditions, and concerns. National Institute on Aging: Health Quakery - The National Institute on Aging is one of the 25 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health. www.healthynj.org /health-wellness/healthfraud/links.htm

ACSH Booklet: The Unhealthy Alliance The National Health Federation is headquartered in Monrovia, California and maintains a legislative office in Washington, D.C. Its members pay from $20 per year for "regular" membership to a total of $I,000 or more for "perpetual" membership. Vested interest groups, certain individuals and trade associations, the American Medical Association in particular, have launched legal procedures against medical doctors who employ in their practice such modalities as natural nutrition, chelation therapy, vitamin/mineral supplementation and other means commonly referred to as alternative healthcare modalities which may not be in agreement with orthodox medicine. The Health Altematives Legal Foundation, 105 N. Foster St., Dothan, AL 36303, is described in its literature as a "nonprofit public interest law center." It was fommed in 1986 to defend "alternative" health care practitioners and to initiate antitrust litigation challenging medical practice laws. fluoride.oralhealth.org /papers/1999/barrettunhlthy.html

Anti-Quackery Ring If you are sympathetic to the aims of the National Council Against Health Fraud, and you consider Quackwatch to be a reliable source of anti-quackery information, then this ring may be just what you're looking for....................................... A choice selection of links on health fraud, emphasizing questionable practices and practitioners in the field of autism. NCAHF is a nonprofit, tax-exempt voluntary health agency that focuses on health fraud, misinformation, and quackery. g.webring.com /hub?ring=antiquackerysite

Quackery In statements about reflexology, Council representatives fail to note that their expert evaluation is based on one unpublished fifteen-year old exercise in health fraud using the work of one reflexologist. The conclusion was reached that "reflexology was not an acceptable method for medical screening." The classroom exercise on health fraud was conducted by members of a graduate class at Loma Linda University in California. Council members provide expert opinions about health fraud during television interviews, in newspaper articles, and in written work. www.foot-reflexologist.com /quackery.htm

Alobar Greywalker: Magickal Record (aka Frater PVN, Bill Siebert) - California couts bash Quackbusters NCAHF contends, however, that we should shift the burden of proof to the defendant to facilitate the campaign against health fraud. Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth. www.livejournal.com /go.bml?journal=alobar&itemid=400641&dir=prev

General Health National Institutes of Health Homepage for the NIH. It also features the Child Health Monitor - a unique monthly digest of up to the minute medical and scientific discoveries, providing parents, teachers and others interested in child and adolescent health with a review of the most recent important discoveries and child health internationally. NCAHF is a non-profit, tax-exempt voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems. www.siu.edu /departments/bushea/health.html

EFR: Mannatech The following from the National Council Against Health Fraud shows how certain words can heighten interest and over-generalizations or interestingly-phrased sentences can be used to make something look important when there is no real basis for a claim. 2 National Council Against Health Fraud MANNATECH A new multilevel firm is promoting itself as a "nutraceutical frontrunner" ("nutraceutical" is a marketing term for foods that favorably alter the structure or function of the body beyond what normal foods can do). NCAHF believes that extreme caution is advised on Mannatech. www.penpages.psu.edu /penpages_reference/12101updated/121012047.HTML

Top Health Frauds According to National Council Against Health Fraud's Jarvis, fraudulent weight-loss schemes are usually heralded by full-page newspaper ads promising rapid, dramatic and easy weight loss or by single news column ads that look like news stories except that the word "advertisement" is written across the top. Bear in mind, though, health fraud is by no means limited to these alone. Serious health risks are associated with the use of such purported aphrodisiacs as cantharides ("Spanish fly"), a chemical derived from the dried bodies of beetles. www.healthgoods.com /education/health_information/Health_Fraud/health_fraud.htm

NATIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST HEALTH FRAUD It is quite clear that the National Council Against Health Fraud and all of its associated groups need to be monitored, especially where chiropractic is concerned. Stephen Barrett, M.D., consumer advocate, is a nationally known author and lecturer on the subject of health fraud. While the issue of health fraud is certainly one that requires as much attention as possible, the question should be viewed carefully. www.chiroweb.com /archives/08/21/09.html

ACSH > Health Issues > Public health efforts at this point should be directed toward reforming the conventional health care system so that alternative and unproven practices do not appear so attractive to consumers. Part of the problem with the promotion of alternative health practices is that conventional medicine embraces practices that are also on shaky ground in some cases. NCAHF has issued a position statement (at http://www.ncahf.org/pp/whcpp.html) and has posted a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis (at http://www.ncahf.org/whc/00.html) as well as links to additional information about WHCCAMP and its members, most of whom are philosophically and economically aligned with the so-called "CAM" movement. www.acsh.org /healthissues/newsID.105/healthissue_detail.asp

AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> National Council Against Health Fraud NCAHF deplores the poaching of endangered species for the purpose of obtaining their body parts for medicinal purposes based upon superstition. NCAHF deplores the plunder of sharks for the purpose of supplying the quack remedy shark cartilage. NCAHF endorses the responsible use of animals in medical research. www.animalrights.net /63810

Centre Of Excellence Web Links Professionals in the health sciences, academia, law and business as well as government agencies share a responsibility to help consumers protect themselves from deception and exploitation in health-related matters. www.lcnorth.ca /consumers/ncahf.html

PELINKS4U - Health, Fitness and Nutrition in Physical Education Quackery has been defined by the National Council Against Health Fraud as "the promotion of health products, services, or practices of questionable safety, effectiveness, or validity for an intended purpose." The term 'quackery' is derived from the Dutch word quacksalver, which is used to identify someone who makes unsubstantiated claims about their salves. NCAHF is a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses on health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. Consumer health is important for anyone who will either eventually become ill and need health care or who wants to take an active role in their own health--and that includes just about all of us. www.pelinks4u.org /archives/health/040102.htm

NATIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST HEALTH FRAUD on Narconon Scam As a member of the board of directors of The National Council Against Health Fraud and a diplomat of The American Board of Nutrition, I am an expert at separating fact from fraud in the nutrition field. Health professionals who subject troubled people (many with psychiatric illnesses and / or severe emotional problems) to this unproven detoxification program are at best unethical and at worst guilty of health fraud. D., R.D. Note: Dr. John Chelf was appointed by the Oklahoma State Mental Health Board to evaluate the Purification Rundown as delivered by Narconon. www.crackpots.org /narconon.htm?FACTNet

Consumer Health: About the Authors In addition to heading Quackwatch, Inc., he is Vice-President and Director of Internet operations of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF); a scientific adviser to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH); and a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). His Quackwatch Web site, which serves as a clearinghouse for information on health frauds and quackery, has won more than 50 honors and awards. An expert in medical communications, Dr. Barrett operates five Web sites; edits Consumer Health Digest (a free weekly electronic newsletter); writes a weekly column for Canoe.ca; is medical editor of Prometheus Books; and is a peer-review panelist for several top medical journals. www.chsourcebook.com /about/authors.html

reliable The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAF) is a nonprofit organization comprising health professionals, educators, researchers, attorneys, and concerned citizens who wish to actively oppose misinformation, fraud, and quackery in the health marketplace. OSH designs and conducts periodic national surveys on smoking behavior in the United States and on the attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of adults and teenagers regarding the health consequences of smoking. The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is a public education group directed and advised mostly by scientists and physicians. www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~exsc297f/reliabl.html

***** Pamphlet from the National Council against Health Fraud ***** AVOIDING LEGAL PROBLEM Opponents of health fraud, quackery, and misinformation must compete with such crimes as robbery, child abuse, maiming, and murder as dangers in the public mind. It is tempting to attack the problems of health fraud, quackery, and misinformation as strongly (in an emotional sense) as possible at each opportunity. The word "fraud" is legally defined as "a generic term embracing all multifarious means that human ingenuity can devise, and that are resorted to by one individual to get advantage over another by false suggestions or by suppression of truth" (1). www.skepticfiles.org /skep2/ncahflgl.htm

Skeptical Inquirer: Aromatherapy Company Settles Lawsuit Disputing Health Claims - Brief Article The National Council Against Fraud served as the plaintiff, and I was the expert witness in the case. Mehrban disputed that the products can promote health and wellbeing, relax the body, relax the mind, enhance mood, purify the air, are antidotes to air pollution, relieve fatigue, tone the body, nourish the skin, promote circulation, alleviate feminine cramps, or do various other things claimed by the company. The case was settled out of court with a $5,700 payment to Mehrban and a court-approved stipulation prohibiting the defendants from making fifty-seven of the disputed advertising claims within California. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_2_25/ai_71563244

Open Letter to "Quackbuster" Stephen Barrett Re Court Transcript Both witnesses' fees, as Dr. Barrett testified, are paid from a fund established by Plaintiff NCAHF from the proceeds of suits such as the case at bar. Based on this fact alone, the Court may infer that Dr. Barrett and Sampson are more likely to receive fees for testifying on behalf of NCAHF in future cases if the Plaintiff prevails in the instant action and thereby wins funds to enrich the litigation fund described by Dr. Barrett. Barrett's heavy activities in lecturing and writing about alternative medicine similarly are focused on the eradication of the practices about which he opines. www.iahf.com /antiquackbusters/20020105a.html

CNN - 'Quack busters' crack down on bogus therapies - Apr. 7, 1997 Those who thought that wacky medical practices and bogus therapies were a thing of the past are sadly mistaken, says Jarvis of the National Council Against Health Fraud. Such useless contraptions as the "horse collar," which people wore for various ills, and the master violet ray, a German electrical device that allegedly killed a toddler in Canada, are both available on the market today, says Jarvis. Dietary supplements promise a range of unproved health benefits, from improved immunity to lower body fat. edition.cnn.com /HEALTH/9704/07/nfm/quack.busters

N C H S - About N C H S Working with partners throughout the health community, we use a variety of approaches to efficiently obtain information from the sources most able to provide information. NCHS is a key element of our national public health infrastructure, providing important surveillance information that helps identify and address critical health problems. describe our experiences with the health care system www.cdc.gov /nchs/about.htm

Duke Health Policy Gateway Its purposes are to improve the business enterprise system and to enhance the contribution of business to society. The world's leading business membership organization, connecting companies in more than 60 nations. Duke University, Center for Health Policy, Law and Management. www.hpolicy.duke.edu /cyberexchange/whats_what/healthind

National Council Against Fraud Under the guise of “protecting” consumers from fraud, their goal is to squash any economic competition to the pharmaceutical industry. The NCAHF is known to be one of the most outspoken critics of anything to do with alternative medicine. Let us look at one member of the NCAHF, psychiatrist Stephen Barrett, M.D. He is presently the webmaster for their site. www.citizenshealth.org /ncahf.htm

homeopathy If there is any positive effect on health it is not due to the homeopathic remedy, which is inert, but to the body's own natural curative mechanisms or to the belief of the patient (the placebo effect) or to the effect the manner of the homeopath has on the patient. Like most of his contemporaries, Hahnemann believed that health was a matter of balance and harmony, but for him it was the vital force, the spirit in the body, that did the balancing and harmonizing, that is, the healing. Hahnemann claimed that most chronic diseases were caused by miasms and the worst of these miasms were the 'psora.' The evidence for the miasm theory, however, is completely absent and seems to have been the result of some sort of divine revelation (Campbell). www.skepdic.com /homeo.html

TRN - July 1997 - Therapeutic Touch Tidbits Anybody interested in joining the National Council Against Health Fraud may request an application from: Membership Chairman, P.O. Box 1276, Loma Linda, CA 92354-1276. For example, in a 1994 report, a University of Colorado Health Sciences Center scientific jury noted, "there is virtually no acceptable scientific evidence concerning the existence or nature of these energy fields. In addition, the National Therapeutic Touch Study Group (NTTSG) has published a 180-page document Survey of Therapeutic Touch Research and has made it available for $20 (NTTSG, 711 W. 9th St., Loveland, CO 80537-4669, 970-667-7313). www.reall.org /newsletter/v05/n07/therapeutic-touch-tidbits.html

Healthcare industry - SourceWatch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month sponsored by AstraZeneca (formerly Zeneca), a multi-national corporation specializing in the production of potentially cancer causing pesticides. Some related funding sources may already be listed on the funders list. This page was last modified 11:44, 20 Aug 2005. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Healthcare_industry

Fraud & Quackery: Internet Resources: The Alternative Medicine Homepage If you are sympathetic to the aims of the National Council Against Health Fraud, and you consider Quackwatch to be a reliable source of anti-quackery information, then this ring may be just what you're looking for." National Council Against Health Fraud : "enhancing freedom of choice through reliable information" National Fraud Information Center: the National Consumers League tracks complaints of inappropriate healthcare practices works in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission, National Association of Attorneys General www.pitt.edu /~cbw/fraud.html

National Council Against Health Fraud Focuses on health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. NCAHF is a private, non-profit voluntary health agency. Some of the publication dates are older (e.g., 1983), but the information still appears sound. uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /cesnutrition/Nutrition_Misinformation/National_Council_Health_Fraud.htm

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