001. at atlasobscura.com, Eric Grundhauser reports in "What’s Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years" (2017-05-19):
"Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK) [...is] the Society Against Quackery, possibly the world’s oldest skeptic society, have been exposing hucksters and helping to defend their marks since 1881 [...which ] formed around the same time that modern medicine began to be professionalized in the late 1800s [...] their journal [is] Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij (Dutch Magazine Against Quackery) [...]";
hear, hear.
hear, hear.
"'quackery is the practicing of treatments and / or diagnostic methods of
which the value has not been scientifically proven [...] this is usually accompanied by loudly
praising its results' [...] says Dr. Cees
Renckens, former president of the VtdK [...] fakes. Cheats. Snake oil salesmen. Quacks. From time immemorial, people have been trying to sell poorly researched or just plain made-up remedies and medicines [...] while the rise of modern medicine standards and protections has
eliminated some of the more blatant flim-flam that was once passed off
as medical science, Renckens says that quackery is still as much of a
problem as it’s ever been, and is in some ways worse [...]today’s] quacks hide behind appeasing terms such as alternative
medicine, additive medicine, holistic medicine, complementary medicine,
naturopathy, integrative medicine [...] CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) which in our view is a sCAM [...] this undeserved trust of quacks' [...]";
yes. Quack salvers.
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