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- 21'st Century Technology - Brief description of a combination of approaches to healthcare, traced back to origns of pollution.
members.aol.com/marion7800/page1.htm
- ABC of Complementary Medicine - What is Alternative Medicine - A review article from the British Medical Journal on Alternative and Complementary medicine
www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7211/693
- Alternative Medicine and Quackery - Alternative medicine and quackery: what various alternative healing methods exist? For what diseases? Mainly critical viewpoints.
www.stelling.nl/simpos/health.htm
- Anti-Quackery Resources - A collection of anti-quackery links and tools.
www.geocities.com/healthbase/anti_quack_sites.html
- Cancell Alternative Cancer Treatment - Exposes disinformation regarding Cancell, a safe alternative cancer treatment which has successfully treated people and animals for a wide array of diseases for more than thirty years without dangerous side affects. Information on other alternative cancer treatments such as Laetrile and Hydrazine Sulfate is also supplied.
www.handpen.com/Cancell/cancell.htm
- Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer - Fairly comprehensive site by University of Texas~Houston Health Science Center dedicated to investigating the effectiveness of alternative/complementary therapies used for cancer prevention and control.
www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam
- Confessions Of A Former Iridologist - Former iridologist talks about his gradual disillusionment with the profession.
www.mather.infomedia.com/reality/confessions.html
- Debunking the Paranormal - A science writer's guide to debunking pseudoscience, the paranormal, homeopathy, and other far out claims of alternative medicine.
www.aaskolnick.com/paranormal.eyes.htm
- Deepak Chopra and Maharishi Ayurvedic Medicine - A summary of material, including the scientific status of ayurveda and quantum healing, by Thomas J. Wheeler, Ph.D. The following article originally appeared in BASIS, the newsletter of the Bay Area Skeptics.
www.hcrc.org/contrib/wheeler/chopra.html
- Health Care Reality Check - Answers to frequently asked questions on alternative and complementary medicine.
www.hcrc.org
- Health Sentinel - Provides news and information that effects health and the world. All the information presented here comes directly from reliable sources such as peer review medical, scientific, historic, and other journals.
www.healthsentinel.com
- HealthLink MCW - Offers an a question and answer dealing with the safety of alternative medicines.
healthlink.mcw.edu/article/992528763.html
- Homoeopathy and Allopathy - Traditional writers comment about allopathy. History, applications, research, and opinions.
www.geocities.com/homeolibrary3/index.html
- Iridology's Blind Side - George Nava True II presents his objections to iridology in a short article.
www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/Iridology.htm
- Janice Lyons: Iridology - A brief overview of the topic from a Christian perspective.
www.hcrc.org/contrib/lyons/iridol.html
- Kundalini and Liberating Breathing or Rebirthing - Marja Savola describes her personal experience, noting that rebirthing, liberating breathing and holotropic breathing can cause explosive Kundalini experiences, psychosis and other mental diseases.
kundalini-info.org/breath.html
- Monterrey Wellness Center Makes Me Sick - Personal opinion about James Davidson, proprietor, currently under a 63 count indictment in Tennessee for fraud for claiming to cure cancer.
members.tripod.com/lorihoeksema0
- My Ordeal as a Patient of Dr. Christiane Northrup M.D. - A true story that raises serious questions concerning the absence of accountability in physicians who market themselves as holistic.
www.javanet.com/~cabbidge
- My Visit to a "Straight" Chiropractor - Article by Stephen Barrett debunks chiropractic hocus-pocus by visiting a chiropractor undercover as a patient.
www.chirobase.org/01General/chirovisit.html
- Natures Protector - The Safety Factor: Research reveals the proven safety of Masqueliers OPCs. Information available upon request.
www.naturesprotector.com/safety.html
- NYH HealthCare Communications/Medical Writing Group - Healthcare-related communucations.
www.nyhwriter.com
- QuackWatch - Some "treatments" make more money than cure patients. Site provides information on the signs of quack medicine, how to evaluate a treatment, how not to get taken.
www.quackwatch.com
- Rocky Mountain Skeptics - Failed Alternative Medicine - Have you had a bad experience with alternative medicine?
bcn.boulder.co.us/community/rms/rms-altmd.htm
- The Healing Techniques of Nicolai Levashov - A brief biography and summary of techniques of the psychotronic healer Nicolai Levashov. Also a reply to critics and skeptics of his methods.
www.drbgkoopman.com
- The Medical Renaissance Group - Aim is to create a revolution in health care. The group comprises doctors, other health professionals, and the public. Aims to pin-point the major problems in health systems. Intends to prepare reports, which will be publicised and presented to the government and the public.
www.medical.wsmcafe.com
- The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine - The only peer-reviewed medical journal dedicated exclusively to carefully assessing the claims, treatments, and hypotheses of unconventional medicine.
www.hcrc.org/sram
- Why Therapies May Seem to Work (Even When They Don't) - Reasons care givers and their clients who rely on anecdotal evidence and uncontrolled observations may erroneously conclude that therapies work.
www.seanet.com/~vettf/WHY.htm
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