See also:

• Health: Alternative: Opposing Views  (35)
• Health: Resources: Professional: Evidence Based Healthcare  (53)

American Council of Science and Health - - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery, activists and hype.

Anti-Quackery Webring - - Nearly 100 listings.

Avoiding Quackery - - Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.

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.

Cataract Surgery Fraud - - Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.

Chirobase Practices - - Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.

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.

Fraud in Health Care Links - - Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.

Health Quackery - - Provides information on how to spot health quackery.

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.

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.

"Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud - - FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.

The Quack-Files - - Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.

Quackwatch - - Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.

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.

Spotting Health Fraud - - Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration - - Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.

Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs - - Subject: Alternative Medicine. Long report which concludes that, "There is very little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies." (October, 1996)