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Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
URL: http://www.quackwatch.org/

Description:
This nonprofit corporation, whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies, has an enormous amount of original information to guide health information seekers. They define (comprehensively) quackery; present information on a long list of questionable products and services, from acupuncture to wild yam cream; discuss consumer protection methods and decisions, from airbags to vegetarianism; and link to other Web sites they consider useful. Searchable.

Author:
Barrett, Stephen

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Consumer protection
Health
Quacks and quackery

LII Database Information:
Record 8550 created by Carole Leita on 01/16/1999
Last modification on 10/27/2002
Published: 01/16/1999  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8550