This comprehensive report, entitled “Quackery: A $10 Billion Dollar Scandal” was issued by the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the House of Representatives Committee on Aging in 1984. The author defines quackery as: The promotion of medical remedies known to be false or which are unproven for a profit, usually by means of false representations that they will “cure” or aid in the cure of various diseases and problems. Quackery is pseudoscience at its best. one of the most appalling elements of quackery [is that it amounts to] uncontrolled tests on human guinea pigs .
. . Humanity as well as science demand that new remedies be tested and proven safe and effective before wide dissemination. The author found following common theme in most quackary claims - The idea that many diseases are caused by vitamin and mineral deficiencies and a “more is better” approach to vitamin and…
