[Jump to Health Related Pseudoscience, Books Reading List]

Aquascams - magnetic water treatment, catalytic water treatment, etc.
Marfa Mystery Lights of Texas.
Patent Watch - Articles about some questionable patents.
Tales of the Wooden Spoon - Nice collection of real and false urban legends by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson of the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society
STATS, Statistical Assessment Service (contains some nice readings about statistics)
Exposing Flawed Science, PBS NOVA web pages written by Rick Groleau
The list below is good for tracking down internet hoaxes.  [Source: Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation by Paul S. Piper (Librarian, Western Washington University), Searcher, v8, No. 8, Sept. 2000]

The directory featured at UrbanLegends
Don’t Spread that Hoax
Scambusters
SNOPES ( The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society’s Urban Legend Pages)
The Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) of the U.S. Department of Energy
Rhode Island Soft Systems produces a site called Vmyths.com
The National Fraud Center is a consumer center for fraud, including Internet fraud.

Young Skeptic's, a PSICOP program, nice educational site for young people and pseudoscience.
Carl Sagan on Pseudoscience - A Science Friday, National Public Radio program (requires RealAudio player).
Scientium (I'm not quite sure of this organizations mission but the pages look like they have some good content.)
North Texas Skeptics library - Information on ESP, Astrology, and Graphology
Beyond Science? - Scientific American Frontiers episode on pseudoscience, teaching resources
World Wide Scam network - "150 Organizations in 28 Countries To Tackle Internet Fraud,
Unprecedented International Partnership Targets Bogus Get-Rich-Quick Scams"
Museum of Unworkable Devices (related to perpetual motion machines) by Donald Simanek
Perpetual Motion Machines - A good discussion perpetual motion machines and with plenty of links.
Astronomical Pseudoscience Resource list - sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Court Appointed Experts Project - A project sponsored by the AAAS to keep junk science out of the court room.
What's New - A searchable database which includes lots of information about politics, science, and pseudoscience.  It is written by Bob Parks and supported by the American Physical Society (APS)
James Randi Educational Foundation - An educational resource for the paranormal, pseudoscientific, and the supernatural.
CSICOP Organization - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
National Fraud Information Center - A National Consumers League web page devoted to fraud.
Creationism verses Evolution - An on-line book with a detailed analysis of the debate (National
Academy Press)
Articles and resources on the issue of creationism verses evolution from Discover magazine
Fact Sheet on transitional fossils to counter some creationism arguments.
Pseudoscience, Kookiness, Weird Science - Web links courtesy of Donald Simanek
Being an Absolute Skeptic - Essay in the journal Science by David Miller (specializes in the philosophy of science)
Science and Religion: Lessons From History? - Essay in the journal Science by John Brooke.
Closing the Gap Between Non-scientists and Scientists - Essay in the journal Science by Takashi Tachibana.
Popular Culture and the Threat to Rational Inquiry - Essay in the journal Science by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
What We Don't Know Does Hurt Us. How Scientific Illiteracy Hobbles Society - Essay in the journal Science by Norman Augustine.
Statement on Science, Creationism, and Evolution - A statement put forth by AAAS.
The T-Files - Lots of links to web pages that debunk unusual claims.
Video Interviews on the topic of UFO's (some good, some questionable)

Health Related Pseudoscience

National Public Radio show on alternative medicines.  (Quite recent - May 3, 2002)
Mayo Clinic on alternative treatments for arthritis
Mayo Clinic on anti-aging and anti-aging hype
An FDA Guide To Dietary Supplements by Paula Kurtzweil
FDA Center For Food Safety and Nutrition, contains information about biotechnology, food approval process, labeling, dietary supplements, etc.
HerbMed - an interactive, electronic herbal database.  This site seems to approach the subject of medicinal herbs in a scientific way presenting both supporting and refuting evidence.   However, one should be cautious about the objectivity of this link!
MayoClinic searchable database on health
National Council For Reliable Health Information - Position Papers, reliable web sites, unreliable websites, and more.
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices - Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Quackwatch - A medical database operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D.  Large database on just about everything you would want to know about medical quackery.
HONcode - Health On the Net code of ethics sponsored by Health On the Net Foundation.  However, "...HONcode doesn't intend to rate the quality or the information provided by a Web site. It only defines a set of rules designed to make sure the reader always knows the source and the purpose of the data he's reading."  (Excerpted from the HONcode web site.)
Viewpoint on Therapeutic Touch - Article on the Skeptic Tank's web site.
Limits and Values of Clinical Trials - Article on the MayoClinic web site.