Ernst also interprets Barrett's attempt to "reject and label as 'quackery' each and every approach that is not part of science-based medicine" as one which minimizes the patient's role in the healing process and is inimical to medical pluralism. A 2003 website review by Forbes magazine stated: Dr. Stephen Barrett, a psychiatrist, seeks to expose unproven medical treatments and possible unsafe practices through his homegrown but well-organized site. Mostly attacking alternative medicines, homeopathy and chiropractors, the tone here can be rather harsh. However, the lists of sources of health advice to avoid, including books, specific doctors and organizations, are great for the uninformed. Barrett received an FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for fighting nutrition quackery in 1984. BEST: Frequently updated, but also archives of relevant articles that date back at least four years. WORST: Lists some specific doctors and organizations without explaining the reason for their selection. A 2004 review paper by Katja Schmidt and Edzard Ernst in the Annals of Oncology identified Quackwatch as an outstanding complementary medicine information source for cancer patients. The 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". The organization has often been challenged by supporters and practitioners of the various forms of alternative medicine that are criticized on the website. See also Consumer protection Crackpot index Evidence-based medicine Hoax Medical ethics Pathological science Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine Scientific skepticism List of topics characterized as pseudoscience References Further reading Three of the eighteen chapters are reprints of Quackwatch articles. External links Skeptic organizations in the United States American medical websites Scientific skepticism mass media Internet properties established in 1996 1996 establishments in the United States