According to Stephen Barrett, M.D., founder of Quackwatch, quackery can best be defined as "the promotion of unsubstantiated methods that lack a scientifically plausible rationale. Promotion usually involves a profit motive. Unsubstantiated means either unproven or disproven. Implausible means that it either clashes with well-established facts or makes so little sense that it is not worth testing."
You probably receive all sorts of information about asthma that touts amazing results. Too often these claims are unsubstantiated.
What sorts of quackery have you seen in relation to asthma?
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“Promotion usually involves a profit motive?” Are you kidding me? EVERY single drug company in the world is in business to make money! Just because drug companies have the many millions of dollars that the FDA requires to “substantiate” something, does not mean that other alternative therapies are ineffective. Do you know how often “well established facts” are debunked in medicine? Wake up Mr Barrett! You and your posts often do more harm than good. Stop trying to suppress progress because it does it does not meet the standards set forth by greed.
Before you quote Stephen Barrett, M.D on your website, you should do a Google search on him. Then you might think twice about taking ‘him’ as an authority on quackery. Methinks, it’s kind of like the pot calling the kettle black.
Barrett calls most if not all treatments “quackery” if they do not fit his preconceived ideas. I have used the breathing techniques of Buteyko to help manage my asthma. I am not sure that I agree with the theory of why it works, however it does work. But then the reasons why many medications work are not known either.
I have no faith in Barrett’s assessment.
Do a little research and you may find Barrett is not such a credible source of information.