Editing Quackwatch (section)

== History ==
Barrett founded the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud (LVCAHF) in 1969, and it was incorporated in the [[Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]] in 1970.<ref name=whofundsquackwatch/> In 1996, the corporation began the website quackwatch.org, and the organization itself was renamed ''Quackwatch,&nbsp;Inc.'' in 1997.<ref name="quacks">{{cite news |last=Baldwin |first=FD |date=July 19, 2004 |title=If It Quacks Like a Duck.{{nbsp}}...|url=http://www.medhunters.com/articles/ifItQuacksLikeADuck.html |publisher=[[MedHunters]] |access-date=February 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206060833/http://www.medhunters.com/articles/ifItQuacksLikeADuck.html |archive-date=February 6, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation was dissolved after Barrett moved to North Carolina in 2008,<ref name=whofundsquackwatch >{{cite web |last=Barrett |first=SJ |date=April 18, 2016 |title=Who Funds Quackwatch? |url=https://quackwatch.org/about/funding/ |publisher=Quackwatch |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> but the network's activities continue.<ref name="BarrettBio">{{cite web |last=Barret |first=SJ |date=December 21, 2016 |title=Stephen Barrett, M.D., Biographical Sketch |url=http://www.quackwatch.com/10Bio/bio.html |publisher=Quackwatch |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name="mission">{{cite web |last=Barret |first=SJ |date=May 2, 2007 |title=Quackwatch Mission Statement |url=http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mission.html |publisher=Quackwatch |access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> Quackwatch co-founded, and was closely affiliated with, the [[National Council Against Health Fraud]] (NCAHF).<ref name=NCAHF_history>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncahf.org/about/history.html|title=NCAHF's History|access-date=October 29, 2007}}</ref><ref name="QWmainpage">{{cite web |last=Barret |first=SJ |url=http://www.quackwatch.org/ |title=Quackwatch.org main page |publisher=Quackwatch |access-date=February 12, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="The Good Web Guide">{{cite book|author-first1=Arabella|author-last1=Dymoke|title=The Good Web Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JCipdQBDUucC&pg=PA35|access-date=September 4, 2013|year=2004|publisher=The Good Web Guide Ltd|isbn=978-1-903282-46-5|page=35|quote=Quackwatch is without doubt an important and useful information resource and injects a healthy dose of scepticism into reviewing popular health information. Its aim is to investigate questionable claims made in some sectors of what is now a multi-million pound healthcare industry.}}</ref><ref name="Eastern Medicine Goes West">{{cite web |last=Politzer |first=Malia |date=September 14, 2007 |title=Eastern Medicine Goes West |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118971914846626834?mod=googlenews_wsj |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |access-date=September 14, 2007}}</ref> The NCAHF was formally dissolved in 2011.

In February 2020, Quackwatch became part of the [[Center for Inquiry]]. CFI planned to maintain its various websites and to receive Barrett's library later in the year.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fidalgo |first1=Paul |title=Quackwatch Joins the Center for Inquiry |url=https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/quackwatch-joins-the-center-for-inquiry/ |website=Center for Inquiry |access-date=26 February 2020|date=February 26, 2020 }}</ref>