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[edit] Analysis and review of Quackwatch, a critical summary

A peer-reviewed critical analysis, "Watching the Watchdogs at Quackwatch," by an independent skeptic, Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D.(MIT) of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, has been published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. His article in JSE closely examines eight Quackwatch articles for factuality, fairness and scientific currency.[1] "With 80 papers on chemical and medical topics, and 11 patents, including 2 on antituberculosis drugs, Dr. Kauffman has turned his attention to exposing fraud in medicine"[2] and is also author of Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year and How to Protect Yourself.[3] He states that all eight articles were "contaminated with incomplete data, obsolete data, technical errors, unsupported opinions, and/or innuendo," and gives numerous examples with extensive, peer reviewed references.

After stating that "Hostility to all alternatives was expected and observed from the website, but not repetition of groundless dogma from mainstream medicine" and that "it is very probable that many of the 2,300,000 visitors to the website have been misled by the trappings of scientific objectivity," Kauffman concludes, "At least 3 of the activities in the Mission Statement: Distributing reliable publications, Improving the quality of health information on the Internet, Attacking misleading advertising on the Internet, have been shown to be flawed as actually executed, at least on the 8 webpages that were examined. Medical practitioners such as Robert Atkins, Elmer Cranton and Stanislaw Burzynski, whom I demonstrated are not quacks, were attacked with the energy one would hope to be focused on real quacks. The use of this website is not recommended. It could be deleterious to your health."