Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Quackwatch

Quackwatch: "Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions".
Highly recommended site to help protect you and your hard-earned money from all the dubious doctors out to help you part with it.

3 comments:

  1. Just my comment.
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    Please visit this website to read how this "Quackwatch" website owner was busted;

    http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/quackpot_barrett_crushed_in_fede.htm
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    Quackpot Barrett Crushed in Federal Court - Again...

    Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

    June 25th, 2003

    Some people never learn. Stephen Barrett (quackwatch.com) seems to be one of those.

    Despite loss after loss, and humiliation on top of humiliation, self styled "quackbuster" Stephen Barrett trudges on to the next embarrassment.

    Like a bug in the fast lane, Barrett is doomed to be wiped off the windshield of the North American Health Freedom Movement time after time, I guess.
    ............... (read the rest of the letter at the website).

    Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate


    This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle between "Health and Medicine" on Planet Earth. 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. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the "Health Freedom Movement" against the "quackbusters" It details "who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them..."

    For background information on the "Battle between Health and Medicine" go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm.

    For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to http://www.bolenreport.com.

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  2. Quackwatch has been proved wrong once again. Homeopathy, the prime "quack medicine" that Quackwatch regularly targets is found to show better results than modern medicine, says a study.

    News Telegraph of July 24Th has this to report;

    Homeopathy wins in test with medicine
    By Robert Matthews
    (Filed: 24/07/2005)

    Homeopathy has been proved more successful and cost-effective than conventional medicine in the first comparison of the two approaches.

    Proof of its effectiveness has emerged from an extensive study of its use in treating chronic disorders such as back pain. The study ignored the question of how homeopathy might work and focused on how well it performs.

    Researchers in Germany recruited more than 400 adults and children with long-term health problems ranging from sinusitis to insomnia and depression. Half were treated using conventional therapy; the other half were treated homeopathically. After six months, the condition of the patients treated homeopathically had improved significantly more, and more quickly, than the others while the cost for each was similar.

    Read:
    http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/24/nhomeo24.xml

    Also read the following for a similiar study conducted in the year 2001.
    http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089%2F107555301750164226

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  3. Anonymous9:23 PM

    Barrett is a pseudo-scientific debunker. He had to lie about himself and his own credentials to have some credibility:
    http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html
    http://www.healthfreedomlaw.com/
    http://www.quackpotwatch.org/

    He's a member of debunking and pseudo-skeptical organization CSICOP:
    http://www.suppressedscience.net/skepticism.html
    http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm
    http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/
    http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/criticandokardec/criticizingskepticism.htm

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