Health Fraud

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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.

See some answers to Health Fraud here.

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Articles relevant to health fraud and quackery.

• Bogus Challenges
• 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
• 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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(ICA) - Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics - The Pediatrics Council
999Alternatives.com Alternative Health and Practitioner Magazine
ABC Got It Backwards
Abha Light Foundation
The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy
Activator Methods
Acupuncture Today
Acupuncture.com--Your online resource for Traditional Chinese Medicine
ADD and ADHD Fraud. Find out the truth about ADD and ADHD (Fred Baughman)
Adjunctive Therapies For Cancer
Advanced Allergy Elimination
Advanced Medical Institute Pty Ltd
AECC Chiropractic College
Affinity Laboratory/Labeling Technologies (Boyd Haley)
Alive and Well AIDS Alternatives (Christine Maggiore)
Alkalize For Health - Stop The Cancer Epidemic!
Alliance for Health Freedom Australia (Michael Bending)
Alliance for Human Research Protection
Allocca Technology and Healthcare Research (John Allocca)
Aloe Essence
Alpha Omega Labs
Alternative AIDS cures?
Alternative Cancer Treatment Australia: The Fountain of Life (Michael Tait)
Alternative Cancer Treatment Cancell
Alternative Cancer Treatment Queensland Australia: Natural Cancer Treatment (Michael Tait)
Alternative Cancer Treatments
Alternative Cancer Treatments Information Center
Alternative Healing
Alternative Medicine by Dr. Bertha L. Veronneau
Alternative Medicine Connection
Alternative Mental Health
Alternative Therapies for Children with Brain Injury and Developmental Disorders
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
Alternative, Complementary and Holistic Veterinary Medicine
Alternatives to Conventional Wisdom for Inquisitive Minds (Helen Tucker)
Alternatives To Heart Disease and Bypass Surgery
Amazon Fertility Program by Natural Stress Therapy (Antonia Ruhl)
The American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture
American Anti-Vivisection Society
American Chiropractic Association
American College for Advancement in Medicine
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) - Whose Interest Does It Serve?
The American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association
American Iatrogenic Association (Nicolas Martin)
American Nutraceutical Association
American Veterinary Chiropractic Association
American WholeHealth: Integrative Medicine
AmericanVistas.Com
Anderson Chiropractic
Animal Chiropractic.com (Daniel Kamen)
Animal Research TAKES Lives - Humans and Animals Both Suffer
AntiBio Technologies
The Antipsychiatry Coalition
Archway House Natural Health Centre
ARD Labs - Magnetic Therapy Research
Aromatherapy - Grade A Notes - Free Newsletter About Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils - Alternative Health
Ask Dr Weil (Andrew Weil)
Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Toxicity Information Center (Mark Gold)
Aspartame Disease : An Ignored Epidemic (Hyman J. Roberts)
Aspartame, Sweetness Disguised as Disease or Death?
Association for Network Care
Atkins Nutritionals
Atlas Orthogonal Chiropractic Australia
Aura-Soma
Aussia Australia
Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association
Australian Biologics (Jennie Burke)
Australian Bush Flower Essences
Australian Healing Clay
Australian Homœopathic Association
Australian Institute For Functional Medicine (Geoffrey Leigh)
Australian Longevity 1 (Joel Wallach)
Australian Longevity 2 (Joel Wallach)
Australian Medical Acupuncture College
Australian Natural Therapists Association
AustralianChiropractors.Com
Authentic Tahitian Noni Juice expands your health naturally.
Autism
Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Autistic Spectrum Disorder and the Amygdaloid Body
Awareness Corporation
Ayurvedic Health Center Online
The Bach Flower Remedies
Bastyr University Research
Bayshore Chiropractic Holistic Health Center
Bee Venom Therapy
BEFE - Bio-electric Field Enhancer (Terry Skrinjar)
BeHealthy Naturopathic Clinic
Bengal Allen Medical Institute - Homoeopathy Education, Training and Medicines
Benny Hinn Ministries
The Best Natural Health Information and Newsletter (Joseph Mercola)
Bestearth - Homeopathic answers to today's problems.
Beyond Therapy - Living in Process (Anne Wilson Schaef)
BICOM bioresonance therapy
Biofeedback Training - HealthWorld Online
BioImmune
Bioresonance Practitioners' Association
Bioresonance.net.au | Australian Contact for Bioresonance Therapy - Treatment, Training and Sales
Biotape Australia

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