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Health Fraud

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.

Some articles by other people.

books about Health Fraud.

Books with reviews:

Book ShopBooks 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.


There are sites listed in this category. Please click here for a listing with brief descriptions of the entries.


125 Fake Cancer 'Cures' Consumers Should Avoid
About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Advocates for Children in Therapy
AllRefer Health
> Alternative Medicine and Cancer Alternative Medicine and Cancer (Peter Moran) (Peter Moran)

Alzheimer Myths (dental amalgam, aspartame, …)
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Council on Science and Health
Americans for Medical Progress
Aromatherapy Debunked and Defended (Anya McCoy)
The Aspartame Home Page
Association of Online Cancer Resources
Australian Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
The Australian Council Against Health Fraud
The Australian False Memory Association
Australian Family Physician
The Australian Nutrition Foundation Inc (Nutrition Australia)
Australian Patient Safety Foundation
Australian Prescriber
Autism Diva
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)
Bad Science (2) (Ben Goldacre)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
British Medical Journal
CancerGuide (Steve Dunn)
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.)
Chirobase (Stephen Barrett)
Chirotalk: The Skeptical Chiropractic Discussion Forum
The Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library (Australian access)
The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
Credentialling Solutions
Current Issues in Alternative Medicine
> Debunking Thought Field Therapy Debunking Thought Field Therapy (Brandon Gaudiano)

Dietfraud.com (Terry Polevoy)
Directory of Open Access Journals - Medicine (General)
DrugWatch.com
The Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare, Alternative Medicine, Paranormal Healing, and Related Methods (Jack Raso)
Facts Versus Fears (ACSH)
Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Administration
Free Medical Journals
Hahnemann's Organon Of Medicine
Health Care Complaints Commission (NSW)
Health Information (Loretta Marron)
Healthopedia.com
HealthWatch (David Bender)
Healthwatcher (Terry Polevoy)
Healthy Skepticism
Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits (Peter Bowditch)
Homeopathy - how could any honest person sell this rubbish? (Peter Bowditch)
The Immune System and the Nervous System
Immunology index (Kevin J. McElwee)
The Infectious Diseases Society of America
Information for Consumers (Drugs)
International AIDS Society
Issues & Concerns in Using Medical Information on the Web (Kay Benjamin)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Kids Come First
Laetrile/Amygdalin
The Lancet
Leandra Smith's Experience with Hulda Clark
Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer - Complementary and Alternative Medicine
MD Consult
The Measles Initiative
Media Doctor
The Medical Journal of Australia
Medkinetics
MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary
MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia
The Merck Manuals
The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Bob McCoy)
myDr
Narconon Exposed
The National Cancer Institute
The National Council Against Health Fraud
National Fraud Information Center
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud
National Patient Safety Foundation
National Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign
The New England Journal of Medicine
NIAID Division of AIDS
NIAID's HIV/AIDS Research Program
The NSW Public Health Bulletin
Nutra-Smart.net (Stuart Adams)
Operation Cure.All (US Federal Trade Commission)
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health)
Pediatric SuperSite
Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infections Disease Facts, Opinion and Dogma (Mark Crislip)
Pharmaceutical & Medical Abbreviation Dictionary
Pharyngula (PZ Myers)
Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld
Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)
PubMed
QuackCast (Mark Crislip)
The Quack-Files (Paul Lee)
The Quackometer (Andy Lewis)
Quackwatch (Stephen Barrett)
Quantum Quackery (Victor J. Stenger)
Recovered Memory Therapy in Australia
Regulation of advertising of therapeutic goods in Australia
Respectful Insolence
Rosemary Jacob's argyria introduction page (Rosemary Jacobs)
Science Based Medicine
The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Sense About Science
Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs
Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Vitamins and Supplements
The SkepDoc (Harriet Hall)
The Skeptic's Dictionary - Alternative Medicine (Robert T. Carroll)
Stop Sylvia Browne (Robert Lancaster)
Stuff and Nonsense
Terra Sigillata
Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia)
Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) - Complaints Resolution Panel
Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council (Australia)
The Truth, Myths and Lies About the Health and Diet of the "Long-Lived" People of Hunza, Pakistan, Hunza Bread and Pie Recipes
Understanding Cancer Series (National Cancer Institute)
Unorthodox Techniques for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergy, Asthma and Immune Disorders (ASCIA)
The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery
The White Coat Underground

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