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BOB CONTEMPORARY QUACKBUSTERS HISTORY COLLECTION AND CARE EPHEMERA AND GRAPHICS MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND EXHIBITS TOPICS - MORE LINK LISTS ON-SITE

Bob McCoy and The Musueum of Questionable Medical Devices

BBC News: "Museum of Health Madness" July 7, 2003
Beaver County Times: "Whacked Out Cures" - June 13, 1995*
Calhoun Times: "Medical Chicanery and Mayhem"- June 30, 1999*
Chicago Tribune: "Medical Charlatans Are His Specialty" - Oct 11, 1990*
Flickr: Museum Visit Photoset by AKuchling
Good Morning America: "Bob McCoy Warns of Quackery"
Lakeland Ledger: "Quackery" - March 6, 2001*
Milwaukee Journal: "Fake medical cures, devices find cozy home in museum." - Nov. 16, 1993*
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Obituary for Bob McCoy - June 1, 2010
Mondo Diablo Podcast: Bob McCoy - June 8, 2011*
New York Times: "A Museum with a Cure for Every Ill but Naivete" - July 10, 1998
NPR Story "Quackery Museum Closes" All Things Considered story on Bob McCoy's retirement. - Feb. 4, 2002
People Magazine: "Quack House" - November 8, 1999
Randi.org: James Randi on Bob McCoy's retirement and passing *
Roadside America: Offical Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Museum of Quackery Full of Bogus Curing Devices" - July 11, 1998*
Voice of America: "Museum Showcases Medical Quackery"- Aug. 22, 2001
Voice of America: "Only in America: Quack! Quack!" - Nov. 22, 2010*

View Bob McCoy's TV appearances in our Video Vault!

Contemporary Quackbusters

Welcome to the Internet FDA - Great article on how to spot Health Fraud
Quackwatch Home Page by Dr. Stephen Barrett...perhaps the dean of the today's anti-quackery movement in the U.S.
National Council Against Health Fraud is a vital organization in the U.S. fighting medical quackery today.
Completmentary and Alternative Medicine - Virginia Commonwealth University*
American Council on Science and Health
Healthwatcher.net - Great site from Canada
Medical Urban Legends at Snopes.com
The Quack Files - a quackery site with an excellent resource section, in English and Danish
Confessions of a Quackbuster blog
The Saul Green Files Renouned debunker of pseudo-science and quackery.
DC's Improbable Science Wordpress Page from the UK debunks the SCAMs*
National Institute of Health - Medline Plus: Health Fraud links
National Institute on Aging - "Health Fraud" *
Federal Trade Commission - "Miracle Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism" *
Quack machines - Gizmos - Magnets: A cure for all diseases, Canadian style
James Randi Educational Foundation Debunking pseudo-science of all kinds - "The Real McCoy Retires" article about Bob McCoy*
RationalWiki Web community Encyclopedia of Science and Critical Thinking
Australian Skeptics' Qakatak
Australian Council Against Health Fraud
Healthfinder.gov- reliable sources of health information from the US Dept. of HHS*
DietFraud.com*
Anti-Quackery Webring

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History

American Artifacts Scientific Medical & Mechanical Antiques - publisher of bi-monthly newsletter; articles and devices for-sale with historic descriptions posted on-line
Chirobase: A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices
by Stephen Barrett, M.D., William T. Jarvis, Ph.D., and Charles E. DuVall Jr., D.C.
Cornell University MOA Journal Collection magazines from the 1800's including Scientific American
DRY DRUNK: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th-and 18th-century Europe at The New York Public Library
Dynamize Me! Medical Quackery Past And Present a feature by Glen Callender published in The Peak, Volume 95, Issue 12 March 24, 1997
FOUR EPOCHS OF WOMAN'S LIFE: A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. Galbraith, M.D., 1901, rev. 1915 (e-book, hypertext)
"From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in the 19th Century: An Exhibition." by Barbara Floyd, University Archivist at The University of Toledo.
The Healing Power of Placebos by Tamar Nordenberg
The History of Nutrition Collection of Vanderbilt University Medical Center Library
provides links to selected reports (descriptions and images) of historically significant nutritional research held in its collections.
The History and Future of Women's Health by PHS Office of Women’s Health
Johann Andreas Eisenbart "the German father of all quack doctors" -
recommended by Brigitte Aust
Karolinska Institute Library History of Biomedicine - the meta-collection of history of medicine links.
Massage and the Original Swedish Movements by Kurre W.Ostrom at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Vol. III by Charles Mackay - e-text
National Library of Medicine and Science
Nebraska Historical Society - Quack Medical Devices Page with photos
Millenium Project: Medical Frauds - 500+ links to quackery on the net
"Oxygen Therapy, the First 150 Years: Curiosities, Quackeries, and Other Historical Trivia" by Lawrence Martin, M.D., Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, OH.
Reliable Agencies and Organizations at Quackwatch.com
Spondylotherapy Simplified by Alva Emery Gregory, M.D., 1922 - e-text
The Quack Doctor Historical Remedies for all your Ills*
Wikipedia entry on Quackery*
WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine Excellent!

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Ephemera and Graphics

Advertising Cards at the Vanderbilt Medical Center
Bob Sokol's medical quackery and curio page
Images from the History of Medicine, a searchable database from the History of Medicine Division and the National Library of Medicine.
Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera, The Online Version of an Exhibit Held at the National Library of Medicine, May 22 through September 11, 1995

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Museums, Libraries and Exhibits

The oldest Psychograph (phrenology machine) that we know of is displayed at the Fairlawn Museum in Superior, Wisconsin. Henry Lavery, inventor of the Psychograph, is a native of Superior.