Health fraud falls into two broad classes - telling people lies that may kill them or someone else, and stealing from people by selling bogus medicines. The sites listed here provide useful information in the battle against quackery and for people just wanting to find out more about how real medicine works. (A list of sites offering suspect or fraudulent medical advice, products and services can be found at The Millenium Project.)

Articles and other comments in The Millenium Project relevant to health fraud and quackery.

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• Bogus Challenges
• CAM or SCAM?
• Cancer 100 Challenge
• CRA vs Iridology
• Dangerous Practitioners - Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• The Dietary Supplement Experiment Begins
• Don't hold your breath waiting for change
• Dr Sandra Trademark
• Drug interactions
• Faith healer? Fraud!
• Fighting the Medi-scams
• Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits
• Homeopathy - How can honest people sell this rubbish?
• How many people do those doctors kill?
• How not to do science - Everyone retracts except Dr Wakefield
• Ignorance is Strength
• Is that a cart or a barrow that horse is pushing?
• Let's be balanced!
• "Limited only by the laws of physics"
• The mass media does its job. Not.
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
• The Myth of "The Myth of Mental Illness"
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Pan Pharmaceuticals - if it ducks like a quack
• Pasteur's Last Words
• Polypharmacy
• Professor Boyd Haley
• Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
• Quackery
• Quackery Down Under
• The Ragtag Posse of Snake-oil Vigilantes
• Still Deluded After All These Years
• Targeting the susceptible
• Then it came for me
• Three Dead Children
• Transcript of the murder of Candace Newmaker
• True Believers
• Truth and Fiction
• Watch out, doctors, the quacks are after your patients!
• You could just die laughing

Some articles by other people.

• The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killing (Andy Lewis)
• Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• Homo Neanderthalensis (H.L. Mencken)
• Mannatech Using Disputed Study to Boost Sales of Its Products (David Evans)
• The Median Isn't the Message (Stephen Jay Gould)
• Shaken Baby Syndrome (Pamela Rowse RN)

books about Health Fraud.

• Alternative Healthcare : A Comprehensive Guide by Jack Raso and Stephen Barrett (Editor).
• Attachment Therapy on Trial : The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker by Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa
• Australian Skeptics 2005 Convention DVD by Australian Skeptics
• Australian Skeptics 2006 Convention DVD by Australian Skeptics
• Bad Medicine : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek
• The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize by Peter Doherty
• Bullshit! Season 1 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 2 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 3 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 4 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Chemical Sensitivity : The Truth About Environmental Illness by Stephen Barrett and Ronald E. Gots
• Chiropractic : The Victim's Perspective by George Magner
• Chiropractic the greatest hoax of the Century? by L. A. Chotkowski
• Christian Science by Mark Twain
• A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine by Kurt Butler and Stephen Barrett (Editor)
• Consumer's Guide to Alternative Therapies for the Horse by David Ramey
• The Dose Makes the Poison : A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology by Alice Ottoboni
• Facts Versus Fears : A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam J. Lieberman and Simona C. Kwon
• The Faith Healers by James Randi
• Fear of Food : Environmentalist Scams, Media Mendacity, and the Law of Disparagement by Andrea Arnold
• The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy : The Rise and Fall of Christian Science by Martin Gardner
• The Health Robbers : A Close Look at Quackery in America by Stephen Barrett
• I'm No Quack : A Book of Doctor Cartoons by Danny Shanahan
• Inside Chiropractic : A Patient's Guide by Samuel Homola and Stephen Barrett (Editor)
• Integrating Complementary Medicine in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Healthcare Professionals by David Peters (Editor), Leon Chaitow, Gerry Harris and Sue Morrison
• James Randi's Amaz!ng Meeting 2 - DVD
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini
• Mystical Diets: Paranormal, Spiritual, and Occult Nutrition Practices by Jack Raso and Stephen Barrett (Editor)
• The Naked Chiropractor Insider's Guide to Combating Quackery and Winning the War Against Pain by Preston H. Long
• Panic in the Pantry : Facts & Fallacies About the Food You Buy by Elizabeth Whelan and Fredrick Stare
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica : Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenentes, and Commonly Presumed Truths by Thomas Browne
• Sandra Schmirler : The Queen of Curling. by Perry Lefko and Shannon England
• Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond
• Spin Doctors: The Chiropractic Industry Under Examination by Paul Benedetti and Wayne Macphail
• Suckers : How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All by Rose Shapiro
• Therapeutic Touch by Bela Scheiber and Carla Selby
• Trick Or Treatment? : Alternative Medicine On Trial by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
• Tyler's Honest Herbal : A Sensible Guide to the Use of Herbs and Related Remedies by Steven Foster and Varro E. Tyler
• Vitamin Politics by John J. Fried and Stephen J. Barrett (Editor)
• The Vitamin Pushers by Stephen Barrett

Books with reviews:

• The Cancer Cure That Worked! by Barry Lynes
• How to Poison Your Spouse the Natural Way by Jay Mann

Books relating to other categories can be found here.

My state government has set up a committee to look at medical quackery. You can see some of the reactions here.

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