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American Council of Science and Health
Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery, activists and hype.
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/categoryID.2/category_detail.asp
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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.
http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/
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Cataract Surgery Fraud
Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
http://seniorhealth.about.com/cs/conditions/a/catsurg_fraud.htm
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Chirobase Practices
Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
http://www.chirobase.org/
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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.
http://www.csmmh.org/
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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.
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html
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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.
http://www.ncahf.org/
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Quackwatch
Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
http://www.quackwatch.org/
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Spotting Health Fraud
Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html
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The Quack-Files
Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/
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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.
http://www.srmhp.org/
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html
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