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Main article: QuackeryThe following is a list of Misplaced Pages articles and categories that are related to the subject of quackery. Inclusion here is not a statement that the subject is quackery or the person is a quack, only that scientific skeptics, debunkers, and consumer protection advocates consider the article to be related to the subject and of possible value when investigating the subject of quackery. Some listed items may be considered by them to be forms of quackery, promoters of quackery, openly against quackery, red flags for quackery, or mechanisms and thought patterns conducive to it. Both sides of the issues are included. See the individual articles for more information.
Concepts and methods
- Academic dishonesty
- Acupuncture
- Acupuncture point
- Ad hominem
- Adverse effect (medicine)
- Algae-based therapies
- Alternative medicine
- Amalgam removal
- Amygdalin
- Anecdotal evidence
- Animal magnetism
- Anthroposophical medicine
- Anti-intellectualism
- Antiscience
- Anti-fluoridation
- Anti-vaccinationist
- Applied kinesiology
- Aromatherapy
- Aspartame
- Aura (paranormal)
- Auriculotherapy
- Ayurvedic medicine
- Azeztulite
- Bach flower remedies
- Bates method
- Bent Spoon Award
- Bio-geometric integration
- Bioresonance therapy
- Biorhythm
- Biostatistics
- Buteyko method
- Candidiasis (yeast allergies)
- Chakra
- Chalybeate
- Charlatan
- Chelation therapy
- Chi
- Chi Machine
- Chinese herbal medicine
- Chiropractic
- Chromotherapy
- Clinical trials
- Codex Alimentarius
- Cognitive dissonance
- Colloidal silver
- Complication (medicine)
- Confirmation bias
- Consciousness causes collapse
- Consensus (medical)
- Conspiracy theory
- Consumer Bill of Rights
- Controversial science
- Controversies about functioning labels in the autism spectrum
- Controversies in autism
- Coral calcium
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Crackpot index
- Cranial osteopathy
- Craniosacral therapy
- Crank (person)
- Critical thinking
- Cryonics
- Crystal healing
- Crystal power
- Degree mill
- Delusional parasitosis
- Dental amalgam controversy
- Dermo-optical perception
- Detoxification
- DHEA
- Diagnosis
- Diagnostic kinesiology
- Dianetics
- Dietary supplements
- Disease
- Dishonesty
- Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
- Doctrine of signatures
- Double-blind testing
- Drug development
- Ear candling
- Eclectic medicine
- Electrical quackery
- Electrical sensitivity
- Electromagnetic theories of consciousness
- Electromagnetic therapy
- E-Meter
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Energy field disturbance
- Energy (spirituality)
- Environmental health
- Epidemiology
- Ergogenic aid
- Essiac
- Ethics
- Eugenics
- Eyology
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
- Faith healing
- Falsifiability
- Feng Shui
- Flexner Report
- Folk medicine
- Folk science
- Food faddism
- Fraud
- Fringe science
- Germ theory of disease
- Gerovital
- Glucosamine
- Grapefruit seed extract
- Growth hormone treatment
- Guideline (medical)
- Hadacol
- Hair analysis (alternative medicine)
- Hasty generalization
- Health care system
- Health claims on food labels
- Health freedom movement
- Herbal medicine
- Herbal therapy
- HGH controversies
- History of medicine
- Holism in science
- Holotropic Breathwork
- Homeopathic Materia Medica
- Homeopathy
- Honesty
- Hoxsey Therapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Iatrogenesis
- Immortality Device
- Innate intelligence
- Insulow
- Integratron
- Intellectual dishonesty
- Interaction, drug
- Ionized bracelet
- Iridology
- Journalism scandals
- Junk science
- Kneipp therapy
- Krebiozen
- Laetrile
- Liability
- Libel
- Life-extension movement
- Logical fallacy
- Lunaception
- Magnet therapy
- Medical error
- Medical intuitive
- Medical malpractice
- Medicine show
- Medieval medicine
- Megavitamin therapy
- Meridian (Chinese medicine)
- Metaphysics
- Morbidity & Mortality
- Morgellons
- Moxibustion
- Mucoid plaque
- Multiple chemical sensitivity
- NAET
- Natural health
- Natural hygiene
- Natural therapy
- Naturopathy
- Neuro Emotional Technique
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Neurotheology
- New age
- Nutraceutical
- Nine oils
- Noni juice
- Non-science
- Nuclear crime
- Nutripathy
- Oberon (device)
- Organic food
- Orgone
- Orthomolecular medicine
- Osteopathy
- Over-the-counter (OTC) medications
- Parapsychology
- Patent medicine
- Pathological science
- Patient safety
- Patient safety organization
- Peer review
- Pejorative
- Penta Water
- Phrenology
- Pigasus Award
- Placebo effect
- Plagiarism
- Polarity therapy
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Prayer healing
- Prescientific system
- Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987
- Prescription only medicine
- Professional negligence
- Protoscience
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudoskepticism
- Psychic surgery
- Psychosomatic illness
- Psychotherapy
- Purification Rundown
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum mysticism
- Quackery
- Radioactive quackery
- Radionics
- Radithor
- Reflex anal dilatation
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Risk management
- Scientific community
- Scientific consensus
- Scientific method
- Scientific misconduct
- Scientism
- Scientology
- Self-deception
- Snake oil
- Somatotype
- Spinal adjustment
- Straw man attack
- Subtle body
- Superstition
- Sympathetic magic
- Testimonials
- Theosophy
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Therapeutic effect
- Therapeutic touch
- Thiomersal controversy
- Thought Field Therapy
- Timeline of medicine and medical technology
- Tort law
- Traditional medicine
- Traditional Chinese medicine
- Trepanation
- True-believer syndrome
- Truthiness
- Tu quoque
- Universal Intelligence
- Universal panacea
- Unsolved problems in medicine
- Urine therapy
- Vaccine controversy
- Vega Machines
- Vertebral subluxation
- Violet wand
- Vision therapy
- Vitalism
- Vitamin O
- Water fluoridation controversy
- Wellness
- What the Bleep Do We Know!?
- Misplaced Pages:Scientific peer review
- Wishful data interpretation
- Yin and yang
Organizations, journals, books, etc.
- American Council on Science and Health
- Australian Skeptics
- Better Business Bureau
- Center for Inquiry
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Christian Science
- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Cosmic Circle of Fellowship
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Trade Commission
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food and Water Watch
- International Association for New Science
- Journal of Scientific Exploration
- Life Extension Foundation
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- National Anti-Vaccination League
- National Consumers League
- National Council Against Health Fraud
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Quackwatch
- Skeptical Inquirer
- Skeptic's Dictionary
- U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- The Weston A. Price Foundation
Persons
- Albert Abrams
- James Adair
- José Arigó
- Ana Aslan
- Robert Atkins
- David Ayoub
- Stephen Barrett
- Jacques Benveniste
- Almon Glenn Braswell
- John R. Brinkley
- Sylvia Browne
- Dan Burton
- Eben Byers
- Edgar Cayce
- Deepak Chopra
- Alex Chui
- Hulda Regehr Clark
- C. Alan B. Clemetson
- George Combe
- Ernesto Contreras
- Richard Dawkins
- Lorraine Day
- Kurt Donsbach
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Edzard Ernst
- Dean Faiello
- Moshé Feldenkrais
- William Fitzgerald
- Patrick Flanagan
- Dr. Fritz
- Martin Gardner
- Mark Geier
- Sylvester Graham
- Michael Guillen
- Samuel Hahnemann
- David R. Hawkins
- Greet Hofmans
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Ray Hyman
- Bernard Jensen
- Jomanda
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Philip J. Klass
- Paul Kurtz
- Benedict Lust
- Joseph Mercola
- Earl Mindell
- Gary Null
- Alex Orbito
- B. J. Palmer
- Daniel David Palmer
- Linus Pauling
- Penn and Teller
- Elisha Perkins
- Michael Persinger
- Lydia Pinkham
- James Randi
- Wilhelm Reich
- Jeff Rense
- Royal Rife
- Carl Sagan
- Viera Scheibner
- Herbert Shelton
- Rudolf Steiner
- Victor J. Stenger
- Andrew Taylor Still
- John Taylor (oculist)
- Russell Trall
- Kevin Trudeau
- Marcello Truzzi
- Andrew Wakefield
- Joel D. Wallach
- George de la Warr
- Andrew Weil
- Edward Yazbak
See also
- Consumer protection
- Debunkers
- Evidence-based medicine
- Glossary of alternative medicine
- History of alternative medicine
- List of branches of alternative medicine
- List of consumer organizations
- List of famous people in alternative medicine
- List of hoaxes
- List of medical topics
- List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts
- List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine
- List of vaccine topics
- Medical ethics
- Pages that currently have the {{controversial}} warning template
- Pseudoscience
- Quackery
- Scientific skepticism
- Skeptic groups
- Watchdog journalism
- Misplaced Pages:List of controversial issues
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Alternative medicine
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Alternative medicine/Classification Systems
- Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Pseudoscience
- Misplaced Pages:Wikiproject Rational Skepticism
- Misplaced Pages:Wikiproject Rational Skepticism/Skeptic watchlists
Related categories
- Category:Alternative medicine stubs
- Category:Ailments of unknown etiology
- Category:Alternative medical systems
- Category:Alternative medicine
- Category:Biologically based therapies
- Category:Chiropractic
- Category:Confidence tricks
- Category:Consumer fraud
- Category:Consumer organizations
- Category:Controversies
- Category:Deception
- Category:Early scientific cosmologies
- Category:Energy therapies
- Category:Hoaxes
- Category:Homeopathy
- Category:Internet fraud
- Category:Logical fallacies
- Category:Medical lists
- Category:Obsolete biological theories
- Category:Obsolete medical theories
- Category:Propaganda
- Category:Propagandists
- Category:Pseudoscience
- Category:Scientific skepticism
- Category:Skeptical Wikipedians
- Category:Skepticism
- Category:Skeptic organisations
- Category:Supernatural healing
- Category:Misplaced Pages controversial topics
- Category:Wikipedians who oppose quackery
Further reading
- The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback) by Robert Todd Carroll, Robert T. Carroll (2003 Edition). John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-27242-6.
References
External links
- Health Quackery: Spotting Health Scams - National Institute on Aging
- How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- National Council Against Health Fraud - Misplaced Pages article
- Protecting Yourself Against Health Fraud - FDA
- Quackery - United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
- Quackwatch.org - Misplaced Pages article