Review agencies urged to stop promoting untrustworthy sites

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Review agencies urged to stop promoting untrustworthy sites.

Dr. Barrett has urged Health on the Net (HON) Foundation and

Healthfinder to stop endorsing sites that promote unreliable health

information.

HON permits sites that subscribe to its principles to display the

HONcode seal.

Healthfinder includes sites in its searchable database after " careful

review " of their contents.

However, Quackwatch has listed more than 40 sites that inappropriately

display the HONcode seal

http://www.quackwatch.org/12Web/honviolators.html or should not be in

Healthfinder's database. http://www.quackwatch.org/12Web/healthfinder.html

The most egregious is Healthfinder's listing of the American College of

Advancement of Medicine, which, despite the FTC order, still

misrepresents chelation as effective against coronary artery disease.

http://www.acam.org/chelation_therapy_information.php

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