Special thanks to my friend and colleague, Charles Wheeler M.D. , pathologist and former Kansas City mayor. Thanks also to the real Patch Adams M.D. , who wrote me encouragement when we were both beginning our unusual medical careers. Especially if you're looking for information on a disease with a name that you know, here are a couple of great places for you to go right now and use Medline , which will allow you to find every relevant current scientific publication. You owe it to yourself to learn to use this invaluable internet resource. Not only will you find some information immediately, but you'll have references to journal articles which you can obtain by interlibrary loan, plus the names of the world's foremost experts and their institutions.
Modern quackery has several other names.
Quacks themselves use other terms. There are exceptions. Quackery may reasonably by defined as the making of health claims without an honest effort to validate them by the usual methods of science . 1.State a hypothesis 2. Design a study to test it, using appropriate controls 3.