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Ronnie Polaneczky: When Ducks act like hogs: Tour-bus quackery - 25 Mar 2008
Philadelphia Daily News,By Ronnie Polaneczky IT'S BEEN THREE years since a city law went into effect that was supposed to create civility and fairness among motorized-tour
CPN seeks govt support to fight quackery - Mar 15, 2008
Nigerian Tribune,The Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN has enlisted the support of the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education
Don't believe nutrition 'facts' until you check research - Mar 22, 2008
Daily News Journal (subscription),Some quackery may be easy to identify, but most fraudulent nutrition claims are not so blatant. Between the extremes of intentional quackery and scientific
More Bush quackery - Feb 29, 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal,The Bush administration's abuse of common sense and historical precedent continues, even as the lame duck waddles toward the White House exit ramp.
Death Now Classified as Mental Illness - Mar 19, 2008
The Spoof (satire),...said chairperson Dr. Buddha Quackery. Conference attendees were informed Merck recently developed a pill called 'reviverin' to reverse the disorder.
'People die taking Rath's products' - Mar 12, 2008
Independent Online,Dumisani Zondi that the issue was not whether Rath was selling the vitamins - he claims he is distributing them free - but about preventing quackery.
John Brinkley, the goat-gland quack - Mar 1, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,As medical procedures go, having severed goat's testicles implanted in one's body to boost a failing potency sounds like the rankest quackery - and it is.
Unable to afford proper medicine, India's sick masses turn to quacks - Feb 29, 2008
The Age,Though the country banned the trade of human organs in 1994, it has done little to crack down on quackery. Yet the work of quacks "is quite incredibly
Easter fun for all the family! - Mar 23, 2008
Redditch Advertiser,The following day Pattern 23 Theatre Company will produce a performance to tell an entertaining story about science and quackery.
Doctors are not plumbers - Mar 5, 2008
YourHub.com,The taint of "quackery" is still with us; we still lack the cultural authority that enables us to be presumed correct. Yes, we are legitimate,
Corporate culpability: give business an ASBO - Mar 22, 2008
Tribune,...regarded as a sign of modernity and scientific fact increasingly considered as a mere opinion that can be counter-balanced by superstition and quackery.
UK Athritis Charity Hits Back at Placebo Claim as New Study Links - Mar 20, 2008
Press Dispensary (press release),...“To label all non-orthodox medical interventions as quackery, their success due to nothing more than the placebo effect, is a sweeping condemnation,� he
Attachment disorder treatments wrapped in controversy - Mar 3, 2008
Colorado Springs Gazette,...“Attachment therapy is the worst quackery in our nation today,� said Linda Rosa, executive director of the Loveland-based Advocates for Children in Therapy.
South Africa: TAC Seeks Ban On Rath Treating Aids With Vitamins - Mar 13, 2008
AllAfrica.com,...of medicines had to be registered with the council. The purpose of the act was to protect patients and prevent quackery, he told Judge Dumisani Zondi.
Authorities crack down on cancer scams - Mar 12, 2008
National Post,Dr. Terry Polevoy, an Ontario physician who runs the anti-quackery Web site healthwatcher.net, said he applauds the competition bureau for taking action but
Eye Editorial: Find a way – March 18, 2008 - Mar 19, 2008
Arcata Eye,This New Age quackery has a name George Orwell would have adored, and rigidly controls what words people can use and who can speak at public meetings,
City explores way to keep geese away - Mar 19, 2008
Great Falls Tribune,The deterrents aren't quackery, Basta said. They're effective, environmentally safe and nontoxic, but too expensive to use over a large area, he said.
FOI Bill and professionalism of journalism - Mar 17, 2008
The Tide,Besides making constructive criticisms possible, some Nigerians believe the law will help eradicate corruption in the country as well as quackery in
South Africa: Settle Case Against 'Definitive Charlatan', TAC ... - Mar 5, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Most importantly, by taking a stand against quackery, government can save lives. "This is a chance to signal that the ANC congress in Polokwane in December
As a scientist I used to think meditation was hokum. Not any more! - Mar 17, 2008
Daily Mail,Some of my fellow scientists have even stronger views and dismiss it all as quackery. Yet over the past few years, Britain has seen a dramatic uptake in
Osteopaths enter mainstream - Mar 3, 2008
Baltimore Sun,In the early 1900s, progressive reformers drove many osteopaths and their schools out of business in their zeal to eliminate quackery.
No, Vaccines Aren't Behind the Rise in Autism - Mar 2, 2008
Yahoo! NewsI know only too well that families are drawn to quackery and hokum. I have also seen how hard it is for medical science to compete for airtime with
March 3, 1879: Birth of the B's (Thought for Food) - Mar 2, 2008
Wired NewsMcCollum was a fierce believer in nutrition through food: To his dying day, he regarded drugstore vitamin pills and supplements as snake-oil quackery.
Book review: Charlatan - Mar 1, 2008
Kansas City Star,By the time he was in his 20s, Brinkley’s quackery (his medical diploma was probably bogus) had landed him in jail in South Carolina, and he had few
People Living With HIV Turn to Homeopathy in Maun - Feb 28, 2008
AllAfrica.com,Supporters of conventional medicines tend to view it as a placebo at best and quackery at worst. In an opinion published this week in The Star,
Ionic power - Mar 18, 2008
Logan Herald Journal,In a recent KSL-TV report, a physician referred to the procedure as “ludicrous,� and a myriad of Web sites label it “quackery,� “a folly,� and “akin to
Web surfing isn't just for cyberchondriacs - Feb 28, 2008
Globe and Mail,Rather than dismiss the Web as a minefield of quackery and half-truths (which it can be), we need to empower patients with good information and the ability
Book kidney kingpin under MCI Act: IMA - Feb 27, 2008
Times of India,According to Dr Anil Bansal, convenor of the anti-quackery cell of IMA, the evidence gathered against Kumar so far is weak. "It is our duty to ensure that
Letters - Saturday - Mar 14, 2008
Colorado Springs Gazette,This letter is in response to the article, "Therapy or Quackery?" in the March 4 Gazette. The article said, Linda Rosa, executive director of the
World Kidney Day - Mar 14, 2008
The Post,Another important factor pointed out by urologists is the unavailability of qualified doctors in the country, which gives way to quackery.
For a healthy lifestyle be 100 percent fad free - Mar 13, 2008
Milford Times,Products sold through quackery may not report this information, including potential side effects and dangers. Choose foods sensibly by looking at the big
Are There Any Bankable Actresses in Hollywood? - Mar 11, 2008
Starpulse.com,Is this man spewing forth misogynistic quackery, or is he, as a businessman, simply stating the obvious - that women no longer come with built-in audiences,
Gus and Us, Part 5: In The End Is The Beginning - Mar 10, 2008
Huffington Post,It was a new national phenomenon that had sin, sex, quackery, corruption and salvation: an irresistible mix, a sure ratings winner.
New Proposals To Fight Global Warming Would End Civilization, Kill ... - Mar 10, 2008
Prison Planet.comSince most of the people who push this kind of quackery also believe in global population reduction, they'd probably be all for it.
Three medical stores sealed in Capital - Mar 8, 2008
The Post,...raids and sealed three medical stores on receiving complaints from the residents of Bhara Kahu regarding quackery on the part of medical stores' owners.
Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to Growth" was demonized - Mar 6, 2008
The Oil DrumThere is a legend lingering around the LTG report that says that it was laughed off as an obvious quackery immediately after it was published.
Acupuncture helps New Yorker get pregnant - Mar 5, 2008
amNewYork,Sticking needles into a woman to help her conceive may sound like quackery, but a recently published study backs what acupuncturists have long claimed: the
Focus on Fernley: Attrition by chronic discombobulation - Mar 5, 2008
Reno Gazette Journal,Both gatherings took place at Australia's Macquerie (rhymes with Quackery) University. In 2006, some 2500 squeezed in; this year's count wasn't reported by
Aromatherapy Doesn't Work? - Mar 4, 2008
FitSugar.com,What do you think? Is aromatherapy a bunch of quackery, or do you think it really can heal the body and make you feel better?
PAU extension scientists highlight problems in transfer of modern ... - Mar 4, 2008
Ludhiana Newsline,...appropriate literature, no duplicity of functions in government departments, a vigil on quackery and informative programmes on broadcast media can help
‘Big Farma’ is a threat - Mar 2, 2008
BCLocalNews,How do they allow such quackery on television? At the end of the commercial it didn’t even say that I should contact my doctor before starting to eat
Ills of a nation - Mar 1, 2008
The Tribune,...health centres that are never opened and there are doctors and paramedical staff who are invisible forcing the poor patients to fall prey to quackery.
Question: ‘What was the practice of medicine like in the Spanish era?’ - Feb 29, 2008
The Santa Barbara Independent,Redmon Medical practices in Alta California under Spanish rule ran the gamut from sophisticated to what today would be considered downright quackery.
Who are the real dons of ‘counterknowledge’? - Feb 29, 2008
Spiked,First, Thompson argues that Islamic societies are particularly vulnerable to counterknowledge and quackery in general because their governments have a
Posted By Kinsinger, Dr. Stuart - Feb 29, 2008
Lindsay Daily Post,I remember a national group of physios referring to chiropractic spinal adjusting as nothing more than unscientific quackery. Turn the clock ahead 30 years
Natural Health - Feb 27, 2008
Nigerian Tribune,According to him, the traditional medical council will need to enforce code of ethics, check quackery and build the capacity of traditional medical
To Hang Or Not To Hang? - Feb 27, 2008
CounterCurrents.org,Justice Iyer went on to condemn the death penalty as “a criminological quackery and jurisprudential philistinism�. With all this great disgust and
No ‘alternative’ to funding, just stop - Feb 25, 2008
UW Badger Herald,...worse — giving someone straight answers about their condition or giving them false hope and encouraging them to waste their time and money on quackery?
The Miracle Machine - Feb 25, 2008
KXAN-TV,For someone diagnosed with constant pain, however, Black has posted online how she thinks the EPFX is "quackery." "The sicker I've become,
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