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Crack down on quacks and make them pay the bill

by Tory Shepherd

02 Feb 06:00am

Filed under: Alternative Medicine, Bogus Doctors, Complementary Medicine, Quackery

192 comments

The world is full of quacks. Legislation won’t work. Time for MyQuack.

Don't malign my chakras, man

Sorry, scrap that, bad connotations.

Time for a one-stop easy-access online information source where you can click on the name of the healer you’re visiting and see where they sit on a bullshit-barometer. This week the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission lawyers allege a man has claimed he can cure cancer with diet and exercise. The court has heard he claimed this treatment was more effective than surgery, chemotherapy and pharmaceutical drugs.

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St. Michael says:

12:22am | 05/02/11

I don’t need to or want to look up Google. The burden of proof is on you. Cite some sources or verifiable studies ... for the third time. Third strike, dear. Your Latin also gets a D minus. “Ad hominem” is shorthand for “argumentum ad hominem”, which is an attempt… Read more »
Michelle says:

06:08pm | 04/02/11

St Michael. OK, I admit it, you’re right: my self-esteem is wrapped up in free-thinking. Call it a crime, if that’s what it is from your padded cell of “controlled studies is all there is, la la la I can’t hear anything else”. Ad hominem = appealing to personal considerations… Read more »

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