REFERENCES


Books:

Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis- Second Edition by Allen C. Bowling (New York: Demos Medical Publishing, 2007)

Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions by Stephen Barrett, William M. London, Robert S. Barat (New York: McGraw Hill, 2007)

The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America (Consumer Health Library) by Steven Barrett and William T. Jarvis (New York: Prometheus Books, 1993)

The Placebo Effect and Health: Combining Science and Compassionate Care by W. Grant Thompson, MD (New York: Prometheus Books, 2005)

Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices by Bob McCoy (Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press LLC, 2000)

Quacks & Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker, & Harry Hoxsey by Eric S. Juhnke(The University Press of Kansas, 2002)

The Skeptic's Dictionary - A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003)

Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R. Barker Bausell (Oxford, 2007 )

Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008)

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, MD (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008)

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer (Henry Holt and Company, 1997)




Web Sites:

http://www.quackwatch.org/      

http://www.skepdic.com/     

http://www.museumofquackery.com/video.htm

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