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Quackwatch Founded in 1969, Quackwatch is an international network of people who are concerned about health-rel

Quackwatch is an international network of people who are concerned about health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Founded by Dr. Stephen Barrett in 1969 as the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud (Allentown, Pennsylvania), it was incorporated in 1970. In 1997, it assumed its current name and began developing a worldwide network of volunteers and expert advisers. Our activities include:

Investigating questionable claims
Answering inquiries about products and services
Advising quackery victims
Distributing reliable publications
Debunking pseudoscientific claims
Reporting illegal marketing
Assisting or generating consumer-protection lawsuits
Improving the quality of health information on the Internet
Attacking misleading advertising on the Internet
Consumer Health Digest, a free weekly e-mail newsletter
The healthfraud discussion list, which has about 600 members

10/13/2026
10/13/2026

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation's largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.

10/13/2026

Though these examples just scratch the surface, they are the end result of the doctors I've written about previously, as well as the academic and media ecosystems that promoted them.

10/13/2026

Online claims that ni****ne addiction is a government-manufactured myth contradict decades of established global medical research. https://bit.ly/3VKrGyq

10/12/2026

HHS Secretary RFK Jr is colluding with anti-vaxx lawyer Aaron Siri to attack states that support vaccination, and the companies that make vaccines. This should be a bigger story.

Author: Katherine Eban.

--While Kennedy has sown parental doubt from his federal bully pulpit, it’s his legal confidant Siri, an expert in the circuitry of vaccine policy, with his hands on the motherboard, despite having no formal government role.

Internal emails obtained by Rolling Stone show Kennedy offering to take departmental action to “be helpful” with certain private legal cases of the type Siri’s firm has pursued, and Siri advising Kennedy on departmental actions he can take to weaken liability protections for manufacturers without congressional approval.

Siri says in an email to Rolling Stone, “I do not provide the secretary with legal or regulatory advice.”

Says a former HHS official, “What gets Aaron Siri up in the morning is to try and figure out every possible, conceivable tool to make it harder to vaccinate people in America.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/vaccine-wars-aaron-siri-rfk-jr-west-virginia-1235636157/

https://archive.li/qISw3

10/05/2026

Happy Monday, gang! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. William Matthew London has posted th ...

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