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Quackwatch, the Glossary

️Fri Jun 15 2007

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, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere".^[1]

71 relations: Abraham Flexner, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Almon Glenn Braswell, Alternative cancer treatments, Alternative medicine, American Cancer Society, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, Annals of Oncology, Associated Press, Center for Inquiry, Consumer education, Consumer protection, Coral calcium, Crackpot index, Donna Ladd, Edzard Ernst, Embryonic stem cell, Essay, Evidence-based medicine, Food and Drug Administration, Forbes, Gale (publisher), Health On the Net Foundation, Hoax, JAMA, Journal of Marketing Education, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Kimball Atwood, Liquid oxygen supplement, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, Medical ethics, Medical Journal of Australia, Mirror site, Mission statement, Morris Fishbein, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Council Against Health Fraud, National Institutes of Health, Naturopathy, Noni juice, Oxford Brookes University, Pathological science, Pay-per-click, PC World, Peer review, Pennsylvania, Quackery, Saturated fat, Scientific collaboration network, ... Expand index (21 more) »
Skeptic organizations in the United States

Abraham Flexner

Abraham Flexner (November 13, 1866 – September 21, 1959) was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada.

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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is a 501(c)(6) trade association in the United States.

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Almon Glenn Braswell

Almon Glenn Braswell (March 11, 1943 – October 28, 2006) was a convicted felon business owner who founded Gero Vita International Inc.

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Alternative cancer treatments

Alternative cancer treatment describes any cancer treatment or practice that is not part of the conventional standard of cancer care.

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Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness.

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American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating cancer.

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American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is the official publication of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

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American Society of Consultant Pharmacists

The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) is an international professional association that provides education, advocacy, and resources to advance the practice of senior care pharmacy, and that represents the interests of consultant pharmacists who work with elderly patients.

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Annals of Oncology

The Annals of Oncology is a peer-reviewed medical journal of oncology, published by Elsevier.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal and to fight the influence of religion in government. Quackwatch and Center for Inquiry are skeptic organizations in the United States.

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Consumer education

Consumer education is the preparation of an individual to be capable of making informed decisions when it comes to purchasing products in a consumer culture.

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Consumer protection

Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace.

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Coral calcium

Coral calcium is a salt of calcium derived from fossilized coral reefs (primarily from limestone and coastal deposits).

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Crackpot index

The Crackpot Index is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number.

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Donna Ladd

Donna K. Ladd (born October 9, 1961) is an American investigative journalist who co-founded the Jackson Free Press, a community magazine,Kuldell, Heather (2007-06-15).

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Edzard Ernst

Edzard Ernst (born 30 January 1948) is a retired British-German academic physician and researcher specializing in the study of complementary and alternative medicine.

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Embryonic stem cell

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

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Food and Drug Administration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Health On the Net Foundation

Health On the Net Foundation (HON) was a Swiss not-for-profit organization based in Geneva which promoted a code of conduct for websites providing health information and offered certificates to those in compliance.

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Hoax

A hoax is a widely publicised falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax.

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JAMA

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.

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Journal of Marketing Education

The Journal of Marketing Education is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers on marketing education.

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Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics published by Elsevier.

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Kimball Atwood

Kimball C. Atwood IV is an American medical doctor and researcher from Newton, Massachusetts.

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Liquid oxygen supplement

Liquid oxygen supplements are products that claim to add extra oxygen to the human body, most often through a chemical process in the digestive system, like the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide or magnesium peroxide.

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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.

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Medical ethics

Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research.

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Medical Journal of Australia

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 times a year.

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Mirror site

Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.

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Mission statement

A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation.

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Morris Fishbein

Morris Fishbein (July 22, 1889 – September 27, 1976) was an American physician and editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from 1924 to 1950.

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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

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National Council Against Health Fraud

The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) was a not-for-profit, US-based organization, that described itself as a "private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems.". Quackwatch and National Council Against Health Fraud are skeptic organizations in the United States.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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Naturopathy

Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine.

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Noni juice

Noni juice is derived from the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree indigenous to Southeast Asia and Australasia.

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Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University (OBU; formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university in Oxford, England.

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Pathological science

Pathological science is an area of research where "people are tricked into false results...

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Pay-per-click

Pay-per-click (PPC) is an internet advertising model used to drive traffic to websites, in which an advertiser pays a publisher (typically a search engine, website owner, or a network of websites) when the ad is clicked.

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PC World

PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers).

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Quackery

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Saturated fat

A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms.

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Scientific collaboration network

Scientific collaboration network is a social network where nodes are scientists and links are co-authorships as the latter is one of the most well documented forms of scientific collaboration.

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Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine

The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine is a discontinued peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health. Quackwatch and Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine are scientific skepticism mass media.

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Scientific skepticism

Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.

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Scientism

Scientism is the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.

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Shark cartilage

Shark cartilage is a dietary supplement made from the dried and powdered cartilage of a shark; that is, from the tough material that composes a shark's skeleton.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason. Quackwatch and Skeptical Inquirer are scientific skepticism mass media.

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Stephen Barrett

Stephen Joel Barrett (born 1933) is an American retired psychiatrist, author, co-founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), and the webmaster of Quackwatch.

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The Lancet

The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.

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The Skeptic's Dictionary

The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic.com and in a printed book. Quackwatch and The Skeptic's Dictionary are scientific skepticism mass media.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch (TT), or non-contact therapeutic touch (NCTT), is a pseudoscientific energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Trinity Western University

Trinity Western University (TWU) is a private Christian liberal arts university with campuses in both Langley and Richmond, British Columbia.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services.

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Waltraud Ernst

Waltraud Ernst (born 1955) is a German professor of the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University.

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Watchdog journalism

Watchdog journalism is a form of investigative journalism where journalists, authors or publishers of a news publication fact-check and interview political and public figures to increase accountability in democratic governance systems.

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White paper

A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter.

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William C. Rader

William C. Rader (born 1938) is an American psychiatrist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackwatch

Also known as Autism Watch, CaseWatch, Chirobase, Credential Watch, Homeowatch, Homeowatch.org, LVCAHF, Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud, MLM Watch, Naturowatch, Quackwatch, Inc., Quackwatch.org.

, Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, Scientific skepticism, Scientism, Shark cartilage, Skeptical Inquirer, Stephen Barrett, The Lancet, The Skeptic's Dictionary, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Therapeutic touch, Time (magazine), Trinity Western University, U.S. News & World Report, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Waltraud Ernst, Watchdog journalism, White paper, William C. Rader.

Quackwatch, the Glossary

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Skeptic organizations in the United States

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