Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/List of articles related to quackery
The following is a list of Wikipedia articles and categories that are related to the subject of quackery. Inclusion here is not a statement that the subject is quackery or the person is a quack, only that scientific skeptics, debunkers, and consumer protection advocates consider the article to be related to the subject and of possible value when investigating the subject of quackery. Some listed items may be considered by them to be forms of quackery, promoters of quackery, openly against quackery, red flags for quackery, or mechanisms and thought patterns conducive to it. Both sides of the issues are included. See the individual articles for more information.
Concepts and methods[edit]
- Academic dishonesty
- Acupuncture
- Acupuncture point
- Ad hominem
- Algae-based therapies
- Alternative medicine
- Amalgam removal
- Amygdalin
- Anecdotal evidence
- Animal magnetism
- Anthroposophical medicine
- Anti-intellectualism
- Antineoplaston
- Antiscience
- Anti-fluoridation
- Anti-vaccinationist
- Applied kinesiology
- Area 51
- Aromatherapy
- Attachment therapy
- Aura (paranormal)
- Auriculotherapy
- Ayurvedic medicine
- Azeztulite
- Bach flower remedies
- Bates method for better eyesight
- Bent Spoon Award
- Bio-geometric integration
- Bioresonance therapy
- Biorhythm
- Body memory
- Buteyko method
- Candidiasis (yeast allergies)
- Canine cancer detection
- Chakra
- Chalybeate
- Charlatan
- Chelation therapy
- Ch'i
- Chi Machine
- Chinese herbal medicine
- Chiropractic
- Chromotherapy
- Codex Alimentarius
- Cognitive dissonance
- Colloidal silver
- Confirmation bias
- Consciousness causes collapse
- Conspiracy theory
- Consumer Bill of Rights
- Controversial science
- Conversion therapy
- Coral calcium
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Crackpot index
- Cranial osteopathy
- Craniosacral therapy
- Crank (person)
- Critical thinking
- Cryobiology
- Crystal healing
- Crystal power
- Degree mill
- Delusional parasitosis
- Dental amalgam controversy
- Dermo-optical perception
- Detoxification
- DHEA
- Diagnostic kinesiology
- Dianetics
- Dietary supplements
- Dishonesty
- Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
- Doctrine of signatures
- Double-blind testing
- Dowsing
- Drug development
- Ear candling
- Eclectic medicine
- Electrical quackery
- Electrical sensitivity
- Electromagnetic theories of consciousness
- Electromagnetic therapy
- E-Meter
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Energy field disturbance
- Energy (spirituality)
- Ergogenic aid
- Essiac
- Ethics
- Eyology
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
- Faith healing
- Falsifiability
- Female orgasm
- Feng Shui
- Flexner Report
- Folk medicine
- Food faddism
- Fraud
- Fringe science
- Gerovital
- Global Warming
- Glucosamine
- Grapefruit seed extract
- Growth hormone treatment
- Hadacol
- Hair analysis (alternative medicine)
- Health claims on food labels
- Growth hormones
- Hair analysis (alternative medicine)
- Hasty generalization
- Health freedom movement
- Herbal medicine
- Herbal therapy
- Hexagonal water
- Holotropic Breathwork
- Homeopathic Materia Medica
- Homeopathy
- Honesty
- Hoxsey Therapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Iatrogenesis
- Immortality Device
- Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm
- Innate intelligence
- Insulow
- Integratron
- Intellectual dishonesty
- Ionized bracelet
- Iridology
- Journalism scandals
- Junk science
- Kneipp therapy
- Krebiozen
- Laetrile
- Liability
- Libel
- Life-extension movement
- Lightning Process, The
- Logical fallacy
- Lunaception
- Magnet therapy
- Malpractice
- Medical intuitive
- Medical error
- Medicine show
- Megavitamin therapy
- Meridian (Chinese medicine)
- Metaphysics
- Morbidity & Mortality
- Morgellons
- Moxibustion
- Mucoid plaque
- Multiple chemical sensitivity
- NAET
- Narconon
- Natural health
- Natural hygiene
- Natural therapy
- Naturopathy
- Neuro emotional technique
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Neurotheology
- New age
- Nutraceutical
- Nine oils
- Noni juice
- Non-science
- Nuclear crime
- Nutripathy
- Oberon (device)
- Organic food
- Orgone
- Orthomolecular medicine
- Osteopathy
- Over-the-counter (OTC) medications
- Parapsychology
- Patent medicine
- Pathological science
- Patient safety
- Patient safety organization
- Peer review
- Pejorative
- Penta Water
- Phrenology
- Pigasus Award
- Placebo effect
- Plagiarism
- Polarity therapy
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- Prayer healing
- Prescientific system
- Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987
- Prescription only medicine
- Protoscience
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudoskepticism
- Psychic surgery
- Psychokinesis
- Psychosomatic illness
- Psychotherapy
- Purification Rundown
- Quantum brain dynamics
- Quantum dots in living cells
- Quantum mechanics
- Quantum mysticism
- Quackery
- Radioactive quackery
- Radionics
- Radithor
- Reflex anal dilation
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Risk management
- Scientific community
- Scientific consensus
- Scientific method
- Scientific misconduct
- Scientism
- Scientology
- Self-deception
- Snake oil
- Somatotype
- Spinal adjustment
- Straw man attack
- Statin
- Subtle body
- Superstition
- Sympathetic magic
- Testimonials
- Theosophy
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Therapeutic effect
- Therapeutic touch
- Thiomersal controversy
- Thought Field Therapy
- Tort law
- Traditional medicine
- Traditional Chinese medicine
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
- Trepanation
- True-believer syndrome
- Truthiness
- Tu quoque
- UFO
- Universal Intelligence
- Universal panacea
- Urine therapy
- Vaccine controversy
- Vega Machines
- Vertebral subluxation
- Violet wand
- Vision therapy
- Vitalism
- Vitamin O
- Wellness
- What the Bleep Do We Know!?
- Wikipedia:Scientific peer review
- Wishful data interpretation
- Yin and yang
Organizations, journals, books, etc.[edit]
- American Council on Science and Health
- Australian Skeptics
- Better Business Bureau
- Center for Inquiry
- Christian Science
- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Cosmic Circle of Fellowship
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Trade Commission
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food and Water Watch
- International Association for New Science
- Journal of Scientific Exploration
- Life Extension Foundation
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- National Anti-Vaccination League
- National Consumers League
- National Council Against Health Fraud
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Quackwatch
- Skeptical Inquirer
- Skeptic's Dictionary
- U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- The Weston A. Price Foundation
Persons[edit]
- Albert Abrams
- James Adair
- José Arigó
- Ana Aslan
- Robert Atkins
- David Ayoub
- Stephen Barrett
- Jacques Benveniste
- Almon Glenn Braswell
- John R. Brinkley
- Sylvia Browne
- Johanna Budwig
- Dan Burton
- Stanisław Burzyński
- Eben Byers
- Edgar Cayce
- Deepak Chopra
- Alex Chui
- Hulda Regehr Clark
- C. Alan B. Clemetson
- George Combe
- Ernesto Contreras
- Richard Dawkins
- Lorraine Day
- Kurt Donsbach
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Edzard Ernst
- Dean Faiello
- Moshé Feldenkrais
- William Fitzgerald
- Patrick Flanagan
- Dr. Fritz
- Martin Gardner
- Mark Geier
- Sylvester Graham
- Michael Guillen
- Samuel Hahnemann
- Stuart Hameroff
- David R. Hawkins
- Greet Hofmans
- Leonard Horowitz - AIDS conspiracy theorist
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Ray Hyman
- Bernard Jensen
- Ross Jeffries
- Jomanda
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Philip J. Klass
- Paul Kurtz
- Benedict Lust
- John A. McDougall
- Joseph Mercola
- Earl Mindell
- Gary Null
- Alex Orbito
- B. J. Palmer
- Daniel David Palmer
- Linus Pauling
- Penn and Teller
- Elisha Perkins
- Michael Persinger
- Lydia Pinkham
- James Randi
- Wilhelm Reich
- Jeff Rense
- Royal Rife
- Carl Sagan
- Viera Scheibner
- Herbert Shelton
- Rudolf Steiner
- Victor J. Stenger
- Andrew Taylor Still
- John Taylor (oculist)
- Russell Trall
- Kevin Trudeau
- Marcello Truzzi
- Andrew Wakefield
- Joel D. Wallach
- George de la Warr
- Andrew Weil
- Edward Yazbak
See also[edit]
- Consumer protection
- Debunkers
- Evidence-based medicine
- Glossary of alternative medicine
- History of alternative medicine
- List of branches of alternative medicine
- List of consumer organizations
- List of famous people in alternative medicine
- List of hoaxes
- List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts
- List of pseudoscientific theories
- List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine
- List of vaccine topics
- Medical ethics
- Pseudoscience
- Quackery
- Scientific skepticism
- Skeptic groups
- Watchdog journalism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine/Classification Systems
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience
- Wikipedia:Wikiproject Skepticism
- Wikipedia:Wikiproject Skepticism/Skeptic watchlists
Related categories[edit]
- Category:Ailments of unknown etiology
- Category:Alternative medical systems
- Category:Alternative medicine
- Category:Biologically based therapies
- Category:Chiropractic
- Category:Confidence tricks
- Category:Consumer fraud
- Category:Consumer organizations
- Category:Controversies
- Category:Deception
- Category:Early scientific cosmologies
- Category:Energy therapies
- Category:Hoaxes
- Category:Homeopathy
- Category:Internet fraud
- Category:Logical fallacies
- Category:Medical lists
- Category:Obsolete biology theories
- Category:Obsolete medical theories
- Category:Propaganda
- Category:Propagandists
- Category:Pseudoscience
- Category:Scientific skepticism
- Category:Skepticism
- Category:Skeptic organisations
- Category:Supernatural healing
Further reading[edit]
- The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (Paperback) by Robert Todd Carroll, Robert T. Carroll (2003 Edition). John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-27242-6.[1]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Health Quackery: Spotting Health Scams - National Institute on Aging
- How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- National Council Against Health Fraud - Wikipedia article
- Protecting Yourself Against Health Fraud - FDA
- Quackery - United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
- Quackwatch.org - Wikipedia article
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