Medical licensing boards' meeting shakes quackdom. (Federation of State Medical Boards)

The 84th Annual meeting of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) held in Chicago on April 12 has Arlene Brecher, a publicist for the Townsend Letter, in a tizzy. Brecher attended a session entitled "Fraudulent Medical Practice--Watch and Be Wary" that focused on increased attacks around the country on medical practice acts by the proponents and practitioners of alternative medicine--so-called "medical freedom" laws. Brecher declares that the medical boards' concerns about the erosion of these consumer protection laws is, in fact, a manifestation of the grand medical conspiracy against alternative and complementary medicine. The focus at the meeting was upon chelation …