The health robbers

Offers a comment on why quackery may be expected to continue, to expand, and to remain a challenge to scientific health care. From the book 'The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America.'

By Stephen Barrett, William T. Jarvis, published on March 01, 1994

Quackery

"Those who embrace irrational creeds fervently, who throw themselves headlong into self-help regimens, furnish a fertile recruiting ground for unscientific health wares. Quacks are agile. They sense quickly and rush in to exploit people's real concerns. Thus, for many reasons, quackery may be expected to continue, to expand, and to remain a challenge to scientific health care."

CARTOON

-From The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Edited by Stephen Barrett, M.D., and William T. Jarvis, Ph.D. (Prometheus Books; 1993).