Global Information Lookup Global Information

Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij information


Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij
Formation1881
FounderBruinsma brothers
TypeNon-profit organisation
PurposeOpposing quackery and promoting evidence-based medicine
Location
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area served
Netherlands, Belgium
Membership
2,000+ (2011)[1]
Chair
Nico Terpstra[2]
AffiliationsEuropean Council of Skeptical Organisations, Stichting Skepsis, SKEPP
Websitehttp://www.kwakzalverij.nl/

The Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij or VtdK (English: Association Against Quackery[3] or Society Against Quackery[4]) is a Dutch organisation that investigates the claims of alternative medicine and opposes quackery.[5][6]

  1. ^ van Lier, Bas (2011). Van Bruinsma tot Renckens. De geschiedenis van de Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij in 16 voorzittersportretten. Amsterdam: Verening tegen de Kwakzalverij. p. 96.
  2. ^ Frits van Dam (21 October 2015). "Het bestuur". Website VtdK. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Spiritual healer acquitted in death of Dutch actress", CBC News, 12 June 2009, retrieved 8 October 2009
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Quackometer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "ZonMw wint kwakzalverij-prijs", Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch), 2006, retrieved 2009-06-23
  6. ^ Van Der Smagt, C.P. (2001), "Wat wil de vereniging?", Vereniging Tegen de Kwakzalverij (in Dutch), retrieved 2009-06-23

and 21 Related for: Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij information

Request time (Page generated in 0.7988 seconds.)

Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij

Last Update:

The Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij or VtdK (English: Association Against Quackery or Society Against Quackery) is a Dutch organisation that investigates...

Word Count : 1372

Scientific skepticism

Last Update:

of pseudoscience. Publications such as those of the Dutch Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (1881) also targeted medical quackery. Using as a template...

Word Count : 5881

Catherine de Jong

Last Update:

de Jong (born 1956) is a Dutch anesthesiologist, drug rehab physician, intensivist, since 2009 board member of the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK)...

Word Count : 1569

Jomanda

Last Update:

Millecam's fate. The Dutch Federation Against Quacks (Nederlandse Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij) listed Jomanda as #15 on their top 20 list of quacks. In October...

Word Count : 431

Cees Renckens

Last Update:

against quackery. From 1988 to 2011, he was president of the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK: Dutch Society Against Quackery), which has been actively...

Word Count : 1010

Greet Hofmans

Last Update:

commission appeared as an appendix to Fasseur’s book in 2008. The Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (Dutch association against charlatans, or quackery) has ranked...

Word Count : 912

Quackery

Last Update:

modern standards. A Dutch organisation that opposes quackery, Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK), was founded in 1881, making it the oldest organisation...

Word Count : 9478

Jan Willem Nienhuys

Last Update:

als webmaster". Nederlands Tijdschrift Tegen de Kwakzalverij (in Dutch). 122 (1). Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij: 16–18. Belmont, Lillian; Marolla, Francis...

Word Count : 1187

List of skeptical conferences

Last Update:

Geneeskunde, geen kunst?". Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij website (in Dutch). Stichting Skepsis. Retrieved 19 August 2014. Sam de Voogt (10 December 2011)...

Word Count : 571

History of pseudoscience

Last Update:

also arose during the late 19th century. In 1881 the Dutch Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (English: Society against Quackery) was formed to oppose pseudoscientific...

Word Count : 1928

Vitus Bruinsma

Last Update:

and politician from Frisia, best remembered for founding the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij in 1881 with his brother. Woltjer, J. J. (2013). "BRUINSMA...

Word Count : 113

Stichting Skepsis

Last Update:

decision independently. At this point Stichting Skepsis and the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij took legal steps forcing the prosecutor to continue his case...

Word Count : 1339

VTDK

Last Update:

(VTDK), a Lithuanian state institution of higher education Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK), a Dutch skeptical association campaigning against quackery...

Word Count : 63

De Vrije Gedachte

Last Update:

others Stichting Skepsis and the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij. Since its foundation in 1856, the bylaws of De Dageraad/De Vrije Gedachte have been amended...

Word Count : 5223

Wim Betz

Last Update:

Bruinsma Erepenning by Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (Society against Quackery). "SKEPP". Skepp.be. Retrieved 12 June 2014. De Belder, Paul (2020). "Wim...

Word Count : 602

List of skeptical organizations

Last Update:

18 July 2014. KSP website The letters 'SKEPP' stand for Studiekring voor de Kritische Evaluatie van Pseudowetenschap en het Paranormale ("Study Circle...

Word Count : 302

Skepter

Last Update:

universities, the "ridiculous" verdict by an Amsterdam judge that the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij could not label orthomanual therapist M. Sickesz a "quack"...

Word Count : 528

Rob Nanninga

Last Update:

inspector of Healthcare Herre Kingma (also a member of the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij) to take an overdose of homeopathically prepared sulphur (three...

Word Count : 3882

Petr Skrabanek

Last Update:

2005, the president of the Dutch anti-quackery organisation Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij, Cees Renkens, wrote that Skrabanek was one of the first to...

Word Count : 2677

Piet Borst

Last Update:

Florida, USA. 2010 Gebroeders Bruinsma Erepenning van de Nederlandse Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij, Amsterdam. 2023 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement...

Word Count : 3526

European Council of Skeptical Organisations

Last Update:

(SKEPP), Arlette Fougnies (Comité Para) and Cornelis de Jager (Stichting Skepsis). Cornelis de Jager served as first president until 2001, when he was...

Word Count : 1858

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net