Fraud & Quackery: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine

• American Council on Science and Health"founded in 1978 by scientists who became concerned that many important public policies related to health and the environment did not have a sound scientific basis. These scientists created the organization to add reason and balance to debates about public health issues and bring common sense views to the public"
• American Medical Association: Alternative Medicine-Report 12 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97) Full Text, This report represents the medical/scientific literature on this subject as of June 1997.
• Anti-Quackery Web Ring: "This ring is for sites that combat & debunk health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies, and are more interested in real, objective, scientific proof, than in the speculative, subjective, and unproven theories and anecdotes of so-called Alternative Medicine. 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."
• Chirobase : a Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices, by Stephen Barrett, M.D. and Samuel Homola, DC
• Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
  • Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and Aberrant Medical Practices : "is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to objectively analyzing the claims of "alternative medicine."
  • The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice "is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to distinguishing scientifically-supported claims from scientifically-unsupported claims in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, and allied disciplines"
• Dietfraud.com DietFraud HQ: Home of the best diet and weight loss scams and dubious treatments
• Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
• HealthWatcher Canada's Best Consumer Health Watchdog
• National Association of Attorneys General
• 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
• National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud
• National Patient Safety Foundation, American Medical Association
• QuackWatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions, by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
• Skeptic's Dictionary: Alternative Medicine by Robert T. Carroll
• State Attorney General Offices: addresses and phone numbers of every State Attorney's office in the United States from the National Association of Attorneys General
• United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Protecting Yourself Against Health Fraud: collection of links to government agency resources

Revision: January 2008.

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