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Quackwatch is a
United States–based website, self-described as a "network of people"
founded by
Stephen Barrett,
which aims to "combat health-related frauds...
- the
National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), and the
webmaster of
Quackwatch. He runs a
number of
websites dealing with
quackery and
health fraud....
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characteristic of
aggressive promotion.
Psychiatrist and
author Stephen Barrett of
Quackwatch defines quackery as "the
promotion of
unsubstantiated methods that lack...
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ranging from
disfigurement to
preventable cancer recurrences. The
website Quackwatch warned against the use of
escharotics in 2008, with a
collection of sourced...
- as a "dubious treatment" by the
alternative medicine watchdog website Quackwatch. In
Issels combination therapy,
patients are
asked to
remove any teeth...
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before a meal.
Basic Research was
given the "Most Outrageous"
award for
Quackwatch's 2010 Slim
Chance Awards,
which is
awarded to "...promoters of weight...
- oncology;
according to
Quackwatch, his
ideas are "largely
speculative and invalid." His
therapy is not only ineffective,
Quackwatch notes, but also causes...
- Doesn't
Scare Me Anymore"
videotape with an infomercial.
Stephen Barrett of
Quackwatch registered a
complaint about the
content of the infomercial, and subsequently...
- 1980s; all 13 were
found to
still have
active cancer. An
investigation by
Quackwatch found that the institute's
claims of cure were
based not on
actual do****entation...
- its
inventor to have
cured his cancer.
Stephen Barrett has
written on
Quackwatch: "Although low-fat, high-fiber
diets can be healthful, the Hallelujah...
