“Quack Protection Acts” proposed in state legislatures
Laws protecting “complementary and alternative” health care providers from state regulation have been proposed in several state legislatures under the rubric of “health freedom”. These “Quack Protection Acts” harm consumers.
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In yet another attack of Legislative Alchemy, bills protecting unlicensed practitioners of “complementary and alternative” health care are, once again, pending before several state legislatures. These “Quack Protection Acts”, as I like to call them, are the brainchild of National Health Freedom Action (NHFA) and a related organization, the National Health Freedom Coalition. To give you an idea of just how ardently these folks promote pseudoscience, I’ll turn to my recent post on their efforts to block public health measures during pandemics,