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Barrett was the consulting editor for the Consumer Health Library at Prometheus Books, [6] and has been a peer-review panelist for [7] two [8] [9] [10] medical journals. He has also served on the editorial board of Medscape [11] and the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. [12]
Quackwatch is a United States–based website, self-described as a "network of people" [1] founded by Stephen Barrett, which aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere".
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Skimming scams have continued to be on the rise, according to data analytics firm FICO, which noted a 96% increase in such scams in 2023.According to the FBI, skimming scams cost consumers upwards ...
The agency uploaded a daily average of 7,853 consumer complaints over the 10 days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Feb. 3 ordered the bureau's staff to stop much of its work.Five days ...
A company called Telegram Open Network Limited was registered in Britain on February 28 under the name Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. Telegram, a chat app with 200 million monthly users, is ...
According to interviews given before she was exposed, she left her Brisbane family home at age 12 to live with a classmate and later lived with a family friend. [ 4 ] Gibson attended Wynnum State High School in Wynnum, Queensland , until dropping out in Year 10, [ 5 ] although she also later claimed to have been homeschooled .
A prominent example noted by Radford is a systematic review published in the British Medical Journal showing that paracetamol is ineffective for lower back pain and has minimal effectiveness for osteoarthritis. [3] [45] In his 2012 book Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre heavily criticises the pharmaceutical industry but rejects any conspiracy theories ...