About Quackdown

Quackdown exposes people and companies who sell untested health remedies.

This site also hosts QuackBase. This is a database of unsubstantiated health claims and the attempts by us and others to expose them.

South Africa is awash with false medical claims. We hope that this site will help patients to make informed choices.

Quackdown is a joint project of the Treatment Action Campaign, Community Media Trust and several individuals. It is currently edited by Nathan Geffen, Marcus Low and Catherine Tomlinson. Gareth Dawson designed the logo and did it free of charge. Leon Geffen came up with the name "Quackdown".

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Shameless plug for Nathan's book, Debunking Delusions.
You can order it from Amazon or Kalahari or buy it at most
bookstores in South Africa.

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Catherine sensibly realises Twitter is a waste of time so you can't follow her.

Copyright © 2011 Treatment Action Campaign and Community Media Trust.
The aim of Quackdown is to inform consumers and patients about untested and implausible health-care claims.
Quackdown is implemented using free and open source software.
Unless otherwise noted, all material on the site is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
The site is implemented using the Django web framework and the django-pubman content management system.
The source for Quackdown can be downloaded from launchpad.