Reference Links of Interest
Other online alt-med resource links
 
 

The authors have found the following Websites useful in the pursuit of accurate information dealing with "alternative" and "complementary" therapeutic claims, medical pseudoscience, health fraud, critical thinking, science, and skeptical issues in general:
 

Hogwash School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Faculty of Voodooists

Health Care Reality Check
(Web Archive site only)

The Quack - Files

Quackwatch

The Skeptics Dictionary - Alternative Medicine

Cluster Scams (dealing with "clustered water" quackery)

Chirobase

Chirowatch

Alternative Medicine: The Multi-Billion Dollar Fraud.

Healthwatcher

MLM Watch -- A Skeptical Guide to Multilevel Marketing

National Council Against Health Fraud

The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
(Publication)

The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
(New website)

American Council on Science and Health

Gary P. Posner's Homepage

PubMed (Medline search)

Prometheus Books (U.S.)

Prometheus Books (U.K)

Skeptical Inquirer

CSICOP

The Skeptic Magazine (U.K.)

Skeptic Magazine (U.S.)

Australian Skeptics Homepage

The Skeptics Society

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)

The National Center for Science Education

Skeptical references

North Texas Skeptics

Bay Area Skeptics

British Columbia Skeptics Society

Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York

The East Bay Skeptics Society

Rocky Mountain Skeptics

The Critical Thinking Community

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

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The following websites (in our opinion) offer highly UNRELIABLE information on alleged "alternative" and "complementary" therapies. (Learning about "alternative medicine" by reading the material these sites provide is, in our view, very much like investigating evolution by reading the material provided by "Creation Science" advocates. Some of the information offered is accurate, but much of it is demonstrably false, and much of the remainder is highly misleading. Accurate information tends to be cited only if it supports the particular "alt modality" the website operators are promoting. Scientific studies and literature refuting their claims and beliefs tend to be "invisible" on their sites. Many of the individuals responsible for these Websites are practitioners of the modality or modalities they are promoting. It seems reasonable to assume many of them are heavily "invested" in their favored "alt med modality" -- emotionally, intellectually, professionally and even financially.) * * * Denotes Veterinary websites.
 

The AltVetMed Webpage, J Bergeron, D.V.M., S. Wynn, D.V.M., * * *

International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) * * *

The American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association * * *

The Veterinary Acupuncture Page * * *

The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy * * *

American Veterinary Chiropractic Association * * *

Alternative Medicine Digest (on-line version)

Acupuncture.com

Acupuncture Home Page for the Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Medical Acupuncture Web Page

FEB - The Swedish Association for the Electro-Sensitive

The Amazing Maze of Natural Medicine