Opposing Views

ABC of Complementary Medicine - What is Alternative Medicine - A review article from the British Medical Journal on Alternative and Complementary medicine.
bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/319/7211/693

Alternative Medicine - Scientist Vic Stenger's page on alternative medicine and quackery. Articles on homeopathy, energy healing and the science of prayer.
www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/alt.html

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

CINAM - Examines alternative (complementary) medicine from an evangelical Christian viewpoint using objective science and biblically based criteria.
www.cinam.net/

Complementary and Alternative Therapies - Information from the American Cancer Society.
www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/ETO_5.asp?sitearea=ETO

Complementary and Alternative Therapies - Systemic reviews, meta analyses and generall information on alternative medicine from the Oxford University.
www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/booths/altmed.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

Ebm-first.com - Skeptical information on alternative medicine in general and articles on several specific types.
www.ebm-first.com/

False Coral Calcium Claims - Explains that the content of coral calcium is not very different from the calcium carbonate found in other supplements.
www.healthcastle.com/coralcalcium-scam.shtml

Health Watch UK - Discussion on assessment and testing of treatments and information for the public why only thoroughly tested treatments are safe. Non-profit organization in the UK.
www.healthwatch-uk.org/

HealthLink MCW - Offers a question and answer dealing with the safety of alternative medicines.
healthlink.mcw.edu/article/992528763.html

Herbal Triangle - Adverse reactions to alternative herbal remedies and posibility to report them. Site by medical student Lori Anderson.
www.absidia.net/herbtri/

HerbalWatch - Consumer Watchdog of the Herbal Industry - Information on the dangers of Herbal products. Some can be harmfull to peoples health.
www.herbalwatch.com/

HomeoWatch - A skeptical guide to homeopathy. Homeopathic "remedies" are usually harmless, but their associated misbeliefs are not.
www.homeowatch.org/

Hypnosis and Hypnotism - A Christian viewpoint on hypnotherapy.
www.spirithome.com/hypnosis.html

Iridology - Information on diagnoses one can really observe in the eye, and why iridology is fraud.
your-doctor.com/patient_info/alternative_remedies/various_therapy/fraud_topics/bogus_tests_tx/iridology.html

The Millenium Project - Uncovers promoters of quackery and those who lie about the dangers of vaccines. A list with a several hundred fundamental websites, commentaries on fraudulent organisations and sites, hate-mail from uncovered quacks, tributes and awards.
www.ratbags.com/rsoles/

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.
users.rcn.com/cabbidge/Index.html

NYH HealthCare Communications Group - Healthcare-related communications from Nancy Yanes-Hoffman.
www.nyhwriter.com/

The Quack-Files - Critical reviews, specially of alternative medicine. Provides resources and links on quackery, alternative medicine and health fraud.
www.geocities.com/healthbase/

QuackWatch - Nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Information on quackery, questionable therapies and products.
www.quackwatch.org/

Rocky Mountain Skeptics - Failed Alternative Medicine - A database of negative testimony.
www.rationalmagic.com/RMS/rms-altmd.htm

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.horsemagazine.com/CLINIC/R/RAMEY_DAVID/Ramey.html