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Edell, Dean. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry : America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts Are Wrong (Harpercollins, 1999) ***

Baker, Robert A. They Call It Hypnosis (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). ***

Barrett, Stephen and William T. Jarvis. eds. The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993). ***

Barrett, Stephen and Kurt Butler (eds.) A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine : A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments; edited by (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992). ***

Barrett, Stephen. "Homeopathy: Is It Medicine?," in The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal - A Skeptical Inquirer Collection, ed. Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991), pp. 271-277. 

Brenneman, Richard J. Deadly Blessings : Faith Healing on Trial (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). 

Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957),  ***

Huston, Peter. "China, Chi, and Chicanery - Examining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Theory," Skeptical Inquirer, Sept/Oct 1995. 

Magner, George. Chiropractic : the victim's perspective; edited by Stephen Barrett ; with a foreword by William T. Jarvis. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995). ***

Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books). ***

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982), chapter 9. ***

Raso, Jack. "Alternative" Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994). ***

Raso, Jack. Mystical Diets : Paranormal, Spiritual, and Occult Nutrition Practices (Consumer Health Library) (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993). ***

Rubin, Robert T. Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior, edited by Claude T. H. Friedmann and Robert A. Faguet (NY & London: Plenum Press, 1982). 

Skrabanek, Petr and James McCormick. Follies and Fallacies in Medicine (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). 

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Steven Barrett is a retired psychiatrist, author of 46 books, a tireless consumer advocate and watchdog of medical quackery. He is a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud and a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). Visit Dr. Stephen Barrett's QuackWatch Site

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