ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Patrick Woodroffe

Articles here cover the full panoply of new-age, alternative medical claims: drugs, treatments, and diet.

#17 QUACKERY a large library of the best, plus many, many links. Nearly all of the articles concern alternative medicine.

OUTSTANDING SITES

QuackWatch, guide to health fraud by Dr. Stephen Barrett

http://www.worstpills.org/: Part of the Nader network of Public Citizen

http://skepdic.com: Contains The Skeptic Dictionary by Robert Carroll, over 460 first rate articles on all the topics of interest to a skeptic

MEDICAL LINKS

This site is one of 3 sites maintained by California Skeptics

All with cool art and informative articles

#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, which gets over 700 pages downloaded per day.

#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, which averages over 4,000 pages downloaded per day.

#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR CURRENT NEWS ISSUES, current issues & news articles

PROBLEMS:

#17 QUACKERY (at skeptically.org)

#102 QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES

#41 MEDICAL CRAP

#130 MORE MEDICAL CRAP

#135 NSAIDS

#132 IMAGINARY CONDITIONS

#134 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

#136 ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

GENERAL INFORMATION:

#35 HEALTH ARTICLES

#36 WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES

#45 MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#48 DRUGS AND TREATMENTS

MISCELLANEOUS:

#32 SHORT STORY, ETC.

#33 PROSE SATIRE

#34 RHYMED POEMS

#39 RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC

#40 RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY

#42 RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE

#43 RHYMED POEMS SATIRE

#209 THE ARTISTS

e-mail to thinker@skeptically.org

There is an alarming laxity in the production of research, education of public and doctors, and standards of FDA approval for drugs, as well as the monitoring of safety and effectiveness of drugs. For 2 chapters of the best book on how big PHARMA has manipulated the above and much more by Doctor Marcia Angell (Harvard Professor and former editor of New England Journal of Medicine).

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Alternative medicine is like religion: faith, spurious claims, and damn the best reasoned conclusion.