Editing Quackwatch (section)

== Site content ==
The Quackwatch website contains [[essay]]s and [[white paper]]s, written by Barrett and other writers, intended for the non-specialist consumer.<!-- The numerous other writers are identified in each article they wrote. --> The articles discuss health-related products, treatments, enterprises, and providers that Quackwatch deems to be misleading, fraudulent, or ineffective. Also included are links to article sources and both internal and external resources for further study.

The site is developed with the assistance from volunteers and expert advisors.<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite news|title=Let's check in with the skeptics! (They're way more fun than the credulous)|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/02/lets-check-in-with-the-skeptics-theyre-way-more-fun-than-the-credulous-.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=February 5, 2010}}</ref> Many of its articles cite [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] research<ref name="ascp"/> and are footnoted with several links to references.<ref name="FactCheckED.org">{{cite web|title=Quackwatch|url=http://www.factchecked.org/Sfts_PolicyWonksDetails.aspx?myId=8|work=FactCheckED.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921193725/http://www.factchecked.org/Sfts_PolicyWonksDetails.aspx?myId=8|archive-date=September 21, 2007}}</ref> A review in ''Running & FitNews'' stated the site "also provides links to hundreds of trusted health sites."<ref name="American Running Association">{{cite news|title=Cutting through the haze of health marketing claims|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/27449056/cutting-through-haze-health-marketing-claims|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414232045/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/27449056/cutting-through-haze-health-marketing-claims|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-04-14|work=[[Thomson Gale]]|publisher=Running & FitNews|date=September–October 2007|access-date=February 1, 2008}}</ref>

=== Related and subsidiary sites ===
Naturowatch is a subsidiary site of Quackwatch<ref>{{cite journal |title=Bacteria, ulcers, and ostracism? H. pylori and the making of a myth |first=Kimball C. |last=Atwood IV |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=28 |issue=6 |page=27 |year=2004|url=https://www.csicop.org/si/show/bacteria_ulcers_and_ostracism_h._pylori_and_the_making_of_a_myth}}</ref> which aims to provide information about [[naturopathy]] that is "difficult or impossible to find elsewhere".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naturowatch.org/ |title=Naturowatch<sup>SM</sup> |access-date=April 28, 2017}}</ref> The site is operated by Barrett and [[Kimball C. Atwood IV]], an anesthesiologist by profession, who has become a vocal critic of alternative medicine.<ref name=Parascandola>{{cite journal |title=Alternative medicine trial suspends recruitment |first=Mark |last=Parascandola |journal=Research Practitioner |volume=9 |issue=6 |page=193 |year=2008|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266795147}}<!-- teaser URL=http://www.centerwatch.com/advertise/samplerp.pdf --></ref>

The site is available in French<ref name="French">[http://www.sceptiques.qc.ca/quackwatch/ Quackwatch en Français]</ref> and formerly in German<ref name="German">[https://web.archive.org/web/20020124192258/http://neuropsychiater.org/quackw.htm Quackwatch auf Deutsch] (archived)</ref> and Portuguese,<ref name="Portuguese">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100127015251/http://quackwatch.haaan.com/index.html Quackwatch em Português]</ref> as well as via several [[mirror website|mirrors]].