Haha you know I had that same thought myself. I think SOME of the stuff on that site is truthful like... yes there are some alternative health scams out there (same goes for anything tho) but theres so much stuff on quackwatch where they say "this is quackery, unsubstantiated claims" when i KNOW it works. They're extremely biased. I really want to find a health site with pure UNBIASED (for or against) information.
The only thing that makes anything a scam is that it promises something and you pay for it and do not get what you pay for.
What you call a 'quack' is a person who claims to be able to heal you using a technique and the technique is false. Somebody who claims to be a doctor and is not is just a liar; false representation.
The Pharmaceutical industry is none of the above.
But, read the writeups on their drugs that they produce, such as those they say have RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) and use their drug. They have visible TV commercials that say the same thing. 'When taking this medication, you may fall asleep during regular activities, such as driving yor car.'
And some of the newer drugs that are out on the market have writeups claiming that a known side effect is death.
The whole society is now in a gambling attitude. Dog tracks, casinos, cruise ships, lottos everwhere. You gamble when you drive your car down the road. The odds are in your favor if you are an experienced driver.
But, you take a drug produced by the Pharmaceutical Industry, the odds are not in your favor. Your body has to dispose of the drugs you take and some have taken them for years and are walking around the picture of health. Why? Has the drug done that? Maybe the drug has masked the symptoms to allow you to be a poster child, but that drug is a foreign substance to your body and the more of that substance you put in your body, the more your body is going to accept. And whatever the side effects of that drug are, will start occuring.
They got around that though. They just produce another drug to counteract the side effects. More foreign stuff in your body that could have been stopped initially by natural flora; plants of the earth.
Some of the medications that are on the market now are claiming to be less stressful on the liver and kidneys; organic.
Well, the Colombine shooting and the most recent mall shooting are really a chain of events that signify what is being done to the children by the parents and the parents are the ones being duped into beleiving that medication like Ritalin and other psychoeffective drugs work. Yes, they are very effective in destroying lives.
I watched the replay of the interview of the mother of the guy who did the recent mall shooting and it is like society is now numb to the fact that it is deathly ill. Society is sick and getting sicker and pharmaceutical drugs are masking symptoms to allow continuation of this way of life.
Am I scared of the medical industry? No, I am here because of doctors and nurses who knew what they were doing saved me. It is the Pharmaceutical Industry that is the one to be feared.