Quackwatch

Some of the most fantastic, educated and effective naturopaths I know have been discredited on Quackwatch, which is so disappointing. Anyone that offers safe alternatives are discredited, while they they don't attack he big pharma and the crazy expensive toxic medical treatments that destroy our bodies! Quackwatch is definitely a shill for the medical industry.

The authors of this website are all insane. The just take some garbage paper and then feel scientific. Science? Bull $#*!

This site wants you to waste your money on pharmaceuticals with terrible side effects and people who like to make you more ill.

If I were a psychiatrist, I would not be allowed to practice nutrition just as a dietitian could not practice psychiatry without the corresponding degrees. Dr. Barrett is not qualified to make professional judgments about the nutrition industry short of pointing out research. Even giving his personal view on research data is biased information, which amounts to nothing without a strong nutrition education. Couple that with the lack of dissenting research to his views (of which there are infinite examples), this site is misleading and quackery itself. It's like going to FoxNews for complete unbiased political news or MLB.com for news about all sports.

When people (Stephen Barrett) start writing articles about areas well outside their specialisation (psychology) they tend to defend the status quo and reject anything new.

The definition of madness is to:

Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome

Quackwatch is like watching the argument for smoking all over again:

"The established paradigm is safe"
The new <insert topic> has not been proven and thus is bad.

It's hyper skepticism at it's worst... and gives true skeptics a bad name.

Quackwatch do use extensive referencing which is a good habit. If only the referencing was a bit more balanced?

Conflicting data often exists which Quackwatch fails to reference. Disagreements are typically resolved as the weight of data finally erodes an existing paradigm. Quackwatch shows no signs of recognising this duality and stifles valid debate rather than facilitating it.

Quackwatch censors debate, is not transparent, misrepresents dissenting points of view and dismisses anyone who disagrees with them as quacks.

The site would benefit from a comments section. Comment sections bring balance back to a discussion. Publishing reader comments forces websites to address weak points in their arguments. Reader comments give an alternative point of view which is otherwise lacking.:-)

The sole purpose of this site is to discredit effective, safe, and affordable treatments in favor of crazy expensive, toxic and dangerous medical interventions.

At one point I used to see and think I could trust information from this site. It wasn't until they tried to post about something I myself had personally had my life changed about that I realized how biased it was. It seems hard to be with citing sources, but you realize the sources are all cherry-picked and also from biased sources.

Cleary this website has an agenda. An agenda that fits in line with the kind of people that make vaccinations and fluoridated water compulsory. You must be a quack if you speak up about the dangers in things like that, eh?

Misleading, biased, and part of the internet circus of self-proclaimed "experts". Who will call to question these sorts of quacky websites?

I read an accusatory letter from a government agency, t o an honorable and effective herbalist i had bought items from in the past, which letter was published on the QW site. But it seems to be a fundamentally flawed accusation, just that the federal agency did not seem to know their own business and what is permitted vs what is not. The site QW did not give any further info, as to the disposition of the case- just an accusatory preliminary letter. Which may have been overruled by a judge in favor of the existing laws that the Fed agent seemed unaware of. Or maybe the Feds and who knows, maybe also QW, just try to bully and harass alternative medical professionals, in order to serve thier apparent long term masters, Big Pharma. Since the major Federal agencies including this one, seem a bit compromised and a bit captured by industries who become government insiders and then wield the agencies as weapons against competitors.
Old medical remedies DO NOT have the same labeling or ad requirements as new ones. A lot of them are "grandfathered in" without the current requirements, based on thier past of successful use by doctors of the past.
It appears that these people on QW are a bit out of date and not very knowledgeable. As are some people in federal agencies. Or else they deliberately and knowingly harass good alt medicine professionals.

I went to quack watch to see what was offered. I have a Ph. D. In Nutrition from a top 5 university and I am deeply disappointed in the quality. I have fought nutrition quackery for over 30 years but I do it by evaluating the evidence as presented by quality studies and experts. There is a paucity of quality analysis on this site and conclusions drawn that are contrary to scientific evidence. As a result, I have to put this site among those that report quackery. Zero stars.

Barrett never achieved any success in his chosen medical profession. Because of that, he has found frustration. He is rabidly jealous of those that actually accomplish things. As an outlet for that frustration, he hatefully attacks his betters.

De-licensed MD Stephen Barrett, I believe, is one of those people whose ambitions, and opinions of himself, far exceed his abilities.

LIERS SPONSORED BY SELFISH BIG PHARMA
DONT TRUST THEM
THEY LIE ABOUT GOOD ALTERNATIVE DOCTORS AND WEBSITES

Quackwatch appears to be nothing more than a rag that promotes the GMO's, toxic chemicals & big pharma.

Will the real quack please stand up?! Quack watch has no idea what it's talking about. Anytime I do research on natural cures this site comes up saying it doesn't work. Yet, why do I feel better after these treatments? Hmmmmm, something smells Fishy at quackwatch...
Especially when it comes to the Amen clinic, once again quack watch says no, best thing I ever did...

Quackwatch has totally FALSE information on their website. They have a webpage called Index to "Fad" Diagnoses, which claims that Chronic inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) (aka biotoxin illness, aka mycotoxin illness) is not real. I have mycotoxin illness and it is REAL. I I tested positive on VCStest.com as well as positive for Ochratoxin A on the MycoTox Profile test through Great Plains Laboratory. Finally, I have an answer to all my joint pain, muscle pain, memory loss, etc. It is very frustrating when doctors tell you that there is nothing wrong, but yet you know there is something wrong. Barrett is a former psychiatrist, and is in no way qualified to claim that Chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) (aka biotoxin illness, aka mycotoxin illness) is not real. It IS REAL. Stop spreading false information on Quackwatch.

I have been a Cranio Sacral Therapist for many years now and have felt and SEEN amazing results. Clients that haven't had relief of pain for decades felt rejuvenated and alive again. When this site came to my attention it seemed as if there is only one side... and he is being a bully with no direct experience of the topics I have read. I refuse to read ignorance. He reminds me of a fat kid with acne that had no friends on the play ground because he $#*! himself.

Seeing is believing. I'll take natural alternatives over chemical synthetics, any day. This site is designed to discourage alternative treatments by instilling fear, so that big pharma can continue to lie with their bed partners who are mainstream, narrow minded Doctors. Natural Doctors treat the whole person, they don't just specialize in specific areas of the body so as to divide it in sections. When's the last time you went to a mainstream Doctor who was able to diagnose AND treat the thyroid, BP, liver, heart and digestive system all in one visit?

As a person who overcame mental illness with nutrition and alternative therapies and now as a therapist who has seen over 20,000 clients with phenomenal success... this guy Stephen Barrett, M. D. is the REAL QUACK... Sorry to say. Google him. He really is. It's scary to see his affiliations with pharmaceutical companies the FDA and the like. Evil. HE IS

What a joke! Sooo basically everything and anything that isn't chemo or radiation is a scam? You're fraudulent site should be shut down! I truly hope that the people that stumble upon this pathetic website are not gullible enough to believe this crap! What a pathetic piece of trash... Anyone considering any of these alternative therapies should research how cancer cells are developed and how cancer cell growth is promoted. Once you do you will understand the immense benefits of such treatments like: wheatgrass, chlorophyll, oxygenation, gerson, etc.

It appears that this site has ties to the pharmaceutical industry. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 20 years ago. I did the conventional therapy (drugs) only to feel worse than ever and to develop more and more negative symptoms. As soon as I began to use natural healing methods, my health began to improve. I no longer believe in drugs, which provide only a band aid effect as the disease rages on underneath. Quackwatch should be sending out information about all of the countless drugs that undermine health and kill millions of unsuspecting people. One only has to look at the side effects of drugs to wonder, "are people that take these drugs really that clueless?"

This site is terrifying. It presents itself as a non profit consumer protection site when in reality its only goal is to promote the pharmaceutical industry. It tries to discredit legitimate, state-licensed, legal health care practitioners. It bashes every government agency that endorses or promotes alternative medicine. It discounts the critical importance of nutrition in health. If there are 30 positive studies and 10 negative ones on a certain treatment, guess which ones get listed and which don't? Reader beware!

In reading through a Quackwatch article on Lyme disease, I was appalled by the lack of quality references. As a person who spent many years doing research to attain my PhD, I find the information in the article misleading, and based on poor or inefficient reference work. Such practice is commonly suspected as slanted within the "true" research community.

Based on reading this article, I would caution anyone to do their due diligence and look for higher quality research and reference sections. It is out there. Look for peer reviewed research by people with qualified backgrounds. DO NOT waste your time at Quackwatch! I certainly will not.