Alternative Healthcare

This page includes websites which point out problems in established health care systems and call for improvements and alternative methods of treatment.

Patient Advocate Foundation
This site advocates major reforms in the way medical facilities and insurance companies deal with patients. It also helps facilitate the cases of individuals which the system has treated unjustly. According to its mission statement, its goal is to provide effective mediation and arbitration services to patients in order to remove obstacles to healthcare, particularly with regard to medical debt crisis, insurance access issues, and job retention problems for patients with chronic and life-threatening illnesses.

Natural Solutions
This site keeps track of the latest news on herbal research, supplement studies, and nutritional discoveries. It also provides information about which foods to eat and which foods to avoid, and which natural beauty treatments are best.

The Institute for Health Freedom
The Institute for Health Freedom was created to bring the issues of personal health freedom to the center of America's health policy debate. Our mission is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom.

Other Categories

• Social Causes
  Websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society

• Personal Freedom
  Websites that oppose attempts to take away personal freedom and civil liberties

• Political Dissent
  Websites that take unpopular political positions or call for radical changes to existing governmental systems

• Anti-Corporate
  Websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources.

• Atheist Websites
  This page contains descriptions of websites that promote an atheist view of the world. Many of these sites argue against the beliefs and practices of traditional religions.

• Religious Dissent
  Websites that oppose the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups, or that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups.

• Peripheral Science
  Websites which put forward theories about phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science.

• Skepticism
  This page lists websites which express doubts about majority opinions or offer counter-arguments to conventional beliefs. This can include commonly accepted ideas about political systems, religious practices, and social policies.

• Nature and Environment
  Websites and organizations that fight to protect the natural world from human exploitation and encroachment. This could include the advocacy of animal rights, the protection and expansion of park lands, and opposition to commercial development of unspoiled land.

• Weird Beliefs and Practices
  This glossary contains brief definitions of several of the weird beliefs and practices found around the world.

• Other Resources
  Other useful resources.

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