10 Facts About Quackwatch

Quackwatch cites peer-reviewed journal articles and has received several awards.

The success of Quackwatch has generated the creation of additional affiliated websites; as of 2019 there were 21 of them.

Quackwatch co-founded, and was closely affiliated with, the National Council Against Health Fraud .

Quackwatch is overseen by Barrett, its owner, with input from advisors and help from volunteers, including a number of medical professionals.

Quackwatch website contains essays and white papers, written by Barrett and other writers, intended for the non-specialist consumer.

Naturowatch is a subsidiary site of Quackwatch which aims to provide information about naturopathy that is "difficult or impossible to find elsewhere".

Quackwatch has been mentioned in the media, books and various journals, as well as receiving several awards and honors.

Quackwatch's quoted Barrett as saying that "a lot of things don't need to be tested [because] they simply don't make any sense".

Jane Cuzzell viewed Quackwatch similarly, arguing that it was entertaining but that the "resource value of this site depends on what the visitor is seeking" and had concerns about the appearance of bias in the selection of the material.

Good Web Guide said in 2006 that Quackwatch "is without doubt an important and useful information resource and injects a healthy dose of scepticism into reviewing popular health information", but "tends to define what is possible or true only in terms of what science has managed to 'prove' to date".