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4.5
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When the name of your site is a pejorative, you start off obviously with a nasty attitude. The fact that the site is defined by name-calling is very telling, and indicative of what you'll find here. It is the most closed-minded, nasty, hateful set of opinions anyone can possibly have about health. Very outdated outlook, not keeping up with the newest understandings about what truly influences health. Anyone who lists Vitamin C as quackery makes a fool of himself.
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Many people aren't going to like it because it exposes quackery. Many people are deeply invested in such things.
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A little dated in parts, but an excellent, comprehensive, and evidence-based expose of the the scams (some very old) used to exploit the sick and vulnerable in the so-called "alternative health" sector
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Hate towards alternative medicine.
Supporters of big pharma.
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This is a parental bashing webpage that is against choice in healthcare.
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A great site which debunks the frauds and shysters of the alternative medicine world. Solidly science-based, Quackwatch is one of my go-to sites for accurate information.
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Clear and objective analysis of questionable medical claims.
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Outstanding, carefully researched articles.
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This disgraceful website adopts a ridiculously pretentious high-handed and arrogant tone while pretending to be "scientifically debunking" the false claims of scurrilous and unscrupulous alternative practitioners. Barrett's arrogance is totally misplaced. The word FRAUD clearly applies more to his own website than to any of the people, alternative healing traditions, and websites that he pretends to trash. Barrett is obviously nothing but a low-life shill for the increasingly corrupt pharmaceutical and medical industries. This website is a PATHETIC JOKE that no one with any sense should take seriously!
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A very informative site. Keep it up!
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Great site to go to to check whether a medical practice actually has science behind it or is pseudoscience.
Ignore the negative comments, especially the ones that go off spouting how Stephen Barrett, M.D. is a Big Pharma shill. This is nonsense people resort to because they don't like the fact that their pet therapy or product is being called what it is.
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It's funny how those who cry 'big pharma conspiracy' conveniently forget that the alt med craze isn't providing its products for free. They are, in fact, very expensive. I think the general public needs to be protected from those people.
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Take what you read here with a salt mine. The Dr. who runs it has proven ties to Big Pharma.
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Very informative. Love finding out about things from here.
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The site is one big shameless shill for pharmaceutical companies. Good doctors using treatments that are effective, are inexpensive, and can not be patented will be labeled quacks by the barret cabal on this site.
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Infinite Jest, you are right in lumping it together with esowatch - it's of the same spirit, promoting the view of the world that big money want it's sheeps to have -
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Quackwatch is clearly a site which propogates ignorance and lies about alternative medicine. It provides negative comments but not much of scientific proof for those comments, except for "cherry picking" press releases from radical sites and so-called "reliable" sources. This is a good site to stay away from.
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A very obviously and highly biased site run by a failed psychologist who is not an M.D. He makes a living as a paid "professional witness" in various cases but has been certified by a federal judge as a charlatan. A treasure trove of false and misleading "health" information for the gullible.
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The flagging campaign by 'shills' for Big SCAM (Supplements, Complimentary, and Alternative Medicine) can be ignored. Quackwatch is the definitive source for all things pseudo-science in medicine.
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it screams big pharma.
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