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How Should It Be Defined?
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How It Sells
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How It Harms Cancer Patients
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“Health Freedom”
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More Ploys That May Fool You
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“Research” Associated with Promotion of Questionable Methods
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Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
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Common Misconceptions
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Why People Are Vulnerable
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How People Are Fooled by Ideomotor Action
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Endorsements Don’t Guarantee Reliability
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The Power of Coincidence
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Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience
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Why Science Needs to Combat Pseudoscience
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Why Health Professionals Become Quacks
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Epidemic Quackery (James Harvey Young, 1978
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Why Quackery Persists
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Victim Case Reports (47)
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Ten Ways to Avoid Being Quacked
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Pro-Quackery Legislation
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Incisive Comments
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Senate Hearing on Anti-Aging Quackery
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Debunking the Myth that “Only 10-20% of Medical Procedures Are Proved”
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Propaganda Techniques Related to Environmental Scares
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Spontaneous Remission and the Placebo Effect
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How to Become a Successful Quack
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Why Strong Laws Are Needed to Protect Us
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Some Notes on the Nature of Science
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The Myth of the Healthy Savage
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Quackery and You (booklet
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A Historian’s View of Quackery in 1974
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Health Frauds and Quackery (1977 Interview of Dr. Barrett
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Quackery Unmasked (Dan King, MD, 1858
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Nostrums and Quackery, Volume I (AMA, 1912
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Nostrums and Quackery Volume II, (AMA, 1921
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Nostrums and Quackery and Pseudomedicine, Volume III
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Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions (Worthington Hooker, MD, 1850
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Third National Congress on Medical Quackery (1966)
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The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Quackery in 20th-Century America
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The Toadstool Millionaires: Social History of Patent Medicines before Federal Regulation
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FDA Survey of Health Practices and Opinions (1972)
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History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills
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The Health Robbers: How to Protect Your Money and Your Life (1976
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The Health Robbers: How to Protect Your Money and Your Life (1980
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“The Foolmaster Who Fooled Them” (James Harvey Young, 1980
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Vitamins and “Health” Foods: The Great American Hustle (1981
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The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America (1993
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The Vitamin Pushers: How the “Health Food” Industry Is Selling America a Bill of Goods (1994
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Health Smarts (1990
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Nutrition Cultism: Facts and Fictions (1983
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Acupuncture
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AIDS-Related Quackery and Fraud
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Algae Products: False Claims and Hype
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Allergies: Dubious Diagnosis and Treatment
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Important Definitions
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Be Wary of “Alternative” “Complementary,” and “Integrative” Health Methods
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Miniglossary of “Alternative” Methods
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A Critical Review (W.T. Jarvis, 2000
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“Alternative Medicine as Self-Care
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Commonly Publicized Methods
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The Braid of the ‘Alternative’ Medicine Movement
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Science vs “Alternative” Methods
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A Public Health Perspective
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The Eisenberg Data: Flawed and Deceptive
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Why Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Proof
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Alternative Medicine” and the Psychology of Belief
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“Postmodern” Attacks on Science and Reality
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Problems with “CAM” Peer Review and Accreditation
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“Alternative Engineering”: A Postmodern Parable
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Should Managed Care Companies Cover “Alternative Medicine”?
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Views of a Concerned Layperson
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Additional Thoughts about “CAM” Beliefs
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Newsweek’s Misleading Report
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Definitions of 1,169 Methods
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White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
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Detailed Analysis of WHCCAMP Draft Report
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Institute of Medicine Publishes Dishonest “CAM” Report
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“Antiaging Medicine”
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Aromatherapy: Making Dollars out of Scents
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Ayurvedic Mumbo-Jumbo
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“Bio-Identical” Hormones
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Cancer: Questionable Therapies
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“Calorie-Blockers”
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“Candidiasis Hypersensitivity/Yeast Allergy”
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“Cellulite” Removers
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Chelation Therapy
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Chinese Medicine
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ALSO VISIT CHIROBASE
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Don’t Be Fooled
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Chiropractic’s Dirty Secret: Neck Manipulation and Strokes
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Advertising Gimmicks
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Steer Clear of Chiropractic Nutrition
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Subluxations: Chiropractic’s Elusive Buzzword
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Undercover Investigations
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How Chiropractors Oversell Themselves
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My Visit to a “Straight” Chiropractor
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Inside View of a Chiropractic Office
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Applied Kinesiology
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Contact Reflex Analysis
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What a Rational Chiropractor Can Do for You
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Does the Bad Outweigh the Good?
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“Veterinary Chiropractic”
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Chiropractic Victim Support Group
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Colloidal Minerals
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Colloidal Silver
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Colon Therapy and Related Quackery
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Craniosacral Therapy
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“Holistic Dentistry” / “Biologic Dentistry”
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The “Mercury Toxicity” Scam
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Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis (NICO)
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“Detoxification” Schemes and Scams
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DHEA: Ignore the Hype
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Dietary Supplements, Herbs, and Hormones
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Dubious Diagnostic Tests
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Ear Candling
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Electrodiagnostic Device Quackery
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“Ergogenic Aids”
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Eye-Related Quackery
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Fad Diagnoses
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Faith Healing
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Genetic Testing Scams
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Gerovital
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Arthritis
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Gamma-hydroxybutyric Acid: A Growing Danger
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Growth Hormone Schemes and Scams
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Hair Analysis: A Cardinal Sign of Quackery
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Hair Removal Methods: What Works and What Doesn’t
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The Herbal Minefield
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Paraherbalism: Ten False Tenets
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“Natural Product” of the Month: Garcinia
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ALSO VISIT HOMEOWATCH
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The Ultimate Fake
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Essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1842)
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Hyperbaric Medicine: What Works and What Does Not
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Insurance Fraud and Abuse
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Ionic Cleansing
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Iridology
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Juice Plus+
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Juicing
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“Liberation Therapy” for Multiple Sclerosis
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Liiefcort for Arthritis: Worthless and Dangerous
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Low-Carbohydrate Diets (including Atkins Diet)
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Lyme Disease: Questionable Diagnosis and Treatment
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Macrobiotics
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Magic Muscle Pills!!: Health and Fitness Quackery in Nutrition Supplements (1992
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Mail-Order Quackery
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Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View
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Massage Therapy: Riddled with Quackery
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Feingold Diet
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Nutritional Supplements for Down Syndrome
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Orthomolecular Therapy
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Procedures to Avoid
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Psychomotor Patterning
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Psychotherapy Mismanagement
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Self-Help Products
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Index to Mental Help Topics
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Metabolic Therapy
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
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Multiple Sclerosis “Cures”
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Multilevel Marketing: Mostly a Mirage
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ALSO VISIT MLM WATCH
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Natural Hygiene: A Critical Look
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ALSO VISIT NATUROWATCH
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A Close Look
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Opposition to Immunization
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HEW Report (1968)
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Medicare Testimony (1970)
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Nutrition Insurance: A Skeptical View
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Organic Foods: Certification Does Not Protect Consumers
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Osteopathy’s Dubious Aspects
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Unethical and Ignorant Behavior
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Misuse of Compounding
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Pneumatic Trabeculoplasty (PNT) for Glaucoma
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Power Lines and Cancer: Nothing to Fear
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Psychic Practices (Astrology, Tarot, Palm Reading, Tarot, etc.
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Qigong
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Reiki is Nonsense
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Reflexology: A Close Look
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Therapeutic Touch
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Top Health Frauds
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Unnecessary Surgery
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Vitamin C: The Dark Side of Linus Pauling’s Legacy
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Water-Related Frauds and Quackery
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Weight Control Gimmicks and Fraud
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“80% of Doctors Take Antioxidants”
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Can Florsheim Shoes Cure Your Magnetic Deficiency
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“Chiropractic Healing Successfully Treats Cancer”
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Clarified Butter (Ghee): Is It a health food
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Dr. Oz Makes Wacky Claims for Pyjamas
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Dubious Claims Made for DZ10 Enzyme Supplement
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Eckerd Drugs’ “Personalized Vitamins”
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Enzyte Marketers Sued
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“Enzyme Deficiency”
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Gero Vita, A. Glenn Braswell, and the ‘Journal’ of Longevity
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Homeopathic Hype
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Impossible Weight-Loss Claims: Summary of an FTC Report
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Life Force Energy Discs
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Magnetic Bracelet
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Magnetize Your Beverages?
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“Mommy My Ears Hurt”
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“Oxygenated Water” Device
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More Oxygen Hype:”Magnesium-Based Oxygen Therapy”
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Phytopharma/Plant Macerat Weight-Loss Plan
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“Recommend Centrum to Bridge Nutrition Gaps”
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Recovery™: An “Amazing” Story
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Reflexology Steering Wheel Cover
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Slim Slippers: A Precautionary Tale
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“Free Preliminary Spinal Examination”
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USPS Media Guidelines (1990
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