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Topia!: Society: Issues: Health: Fraud: Quackery (22)
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Center for Quackery Control - Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks. Anti-Quackery Mailing Lists - Features a health fraud discussion list and an alert announcement list for those interested in the fight against unscientific medical practices and quackery. Avoiding Quackery - Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery. Chirobase Practices - Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. Cataract Surgery Fraud - Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery. FDA Backgrounder - 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. Fraud in Health Care Links - Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services. Health Fraud Discussion List - Provides a forum for discussing health frauds, quackery, and unscientific health matters. Fraud with Hearing Aids - Features fraudulent hearing aid products and provides information on how to report such fraud cases. Quackwatch - Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds. Spotting Health Fraud - Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy. 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. Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources - Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports. How to Spot Medical and Health Fraud - How to protect yourself from worthless, sometimes dangerous health products by learning some of the sellers' marketing techniques. Tip Offs to Rip Offs - Tips on how to spot fraudulent health products. Health Quackery - Provides information on how to spot health quackery. U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments. Home Medical Equipment Fraud - Online booklet on how to obtain reliable home medical equipment and how to report suspected fraudulent products. 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. Bunko Squad - Tips and resources on how to spot quackery. "Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud - FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
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