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Legislative Updates displays bills pending in the 2015-2016 state legislative sessions. We expect many new bills will be introduced during the next few months. Please check back weekly.

View the Latest Weekly Update September 5, 2016.

To view bills from the 2013-2014 sessions and their results, see Legislative Archive.

SfSBM Wiki

The Science-Based Medicine Wiki is a work in progress and currently is beta.

January 1, 2015

While SfSBM has many goals for 2015, a major goal is to make the Wiki a going concern. The conversion of the Quackwatch is finished and now we want to make the Wiki the premier source for information on pseudo-medicine on the web.

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Science-Based Medicine Blog Roll

Cancer quackery from Germany to Australia

Supplements: Still popular despite little evidence they’re useful

Measles More Deadly than Previously Thought

Corydalis: An Herbal Medicine for Pain, with Some Thoughts on Drug Development

Naturopaths Warn Parents of Halloween Candy Dangers

Chromium and Fluoride – What an ‘Interesting’ Combination

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Chiropractic Gynecologist Offers Dangerous Treatments and Misinformation

German alternative cancer clinics: Combining experimental therapeutics with rank quackery and charging big bucks for it

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Natural Health Products: Loosely regulated, little evidence of benefit, and an industry intent on preserving the status quo

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Stem Cell Tourism for Eye Disease: No Passport Required

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Is there a distinct standard of care for “integrative” physicians? The Woliner case

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