An Holistic View of the Quackoblogosphere
For a while now, the quackometer has been regularly and automatically scanning various blogs for good writing about quackery. The end result is a twice-daily […]
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QuackSafeTM Surfing with the Quackometer Toolbar Button
Le Canard Noir is pleased to announce the arrival of the Quackometer QuackSafeTM Toolbar Button for Internet Explorer that will allow one-click access to the […]
E-mail alerts of Quackery in the Newspapers
If you would like to receive emails whenever the quackometer finds a quack newspaper article, then provide your email address here. Email alerts will only […]
RSS Quack Alert Feeds Now Added
You can now subscribe to RSS Feeds to get all the Quackiest Stories direct to your browser without scanning the news sites and papers yourself. […]
Advances in Quackometrics – News Alerts
The latest quackometer functionality is now being tested on the quackometer web site. Throughout the day, the little black duck will be reading the news […]
What is Quackery?
Definitions are hard. You could argue that one person’s quack is another’s health professional. I do not want to limit the definition to just those […]
The Science of Quackometrics
So, how does the Quackometer work? The quackometer counts words in web pages that quacks tend to use. The more quack words, the more quackery […]
What is the Quackometer?
The quackometer is an experiment to see if it is easy to spot quack web sites just from the language they use. The idea for […]