It is very intereting to see what is labeled as a quackery Some mainstream providers use their power of being mainstream to label with Quackery many treatments that are far more efficient For all of those that label acupuncture homeopathy herbalisam and many other great therapies as quackery I would love to chellenge them to provide a nice label for the fact that Orthodox therapies now kill over 250 000 hospital patients a year ranking 3rd as a leading cause of death in the U S What is a quackery nowdays Here is some interesting reading for those that are quackery labelers Enjoy your reading Karen Lee Actually the claim that orthodox therapies now kill over 250 000 hospital patients a year is not a fact That smug claim has spread like a virus from one alternative medicine website to another as demonstrated above but its origins are merely a context dropping distortion of figures cited in Dr Barabara Starfield s commentary in JAMA Is US Health Really the Best in the World in which she estimates that there are 225 000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes Although that terrible figure indicates much needs to be done to improve healthcare in the United States those who toss it around without full understanding should realize that orthodox therapies and iatrogenic causes are not one and the same