Fascinating Website about 'Quackery'

[Gaballetto]

If you're interested in sifting the wheat from the chaff on the internet it's worth looking at this website - quackwatch.org.

I am thinking of some of you I have seen to have a healthy scepticism in your approach to health information on the web.

Since desperate people like us are especially vulnerable to misimformation, and smart people like us know there's a lot of misinformation out there, this website is particularly interesting.

[fmlife]

it sounds like duck watching, like spring watch only for ducks lol 😄

what a funny name for such a website.

[Gaballetto in reply to fmlife]

I think it's to do with untrustworthy doctors being called 'quacks' in the old days

[fmlife in reply to Gaballetto]

apparently the site is not secure. my internet browser will not allow visit.

barbers used to do surgical ops and blood lettings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbe...

[desquinn Partner Volunteer FMAUK Trustee in reply to fmlife]

Site comes back as having an up to date SSL cert and looks okay to be. This is the URL I used: quackwatch.org/

[desquinn Partner Volunteer FMAUK Trustee]

use the site often and has good info, Dr. Ben Goldacre is a UK person to follow doing the same sort of stuff.