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1. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › society-againstWhat’s Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years

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   May 19, 2017 · An issue of the Dutch Magazine Against Quackery>. Nederlandse Leeuw/CC BY-SA 4.0. And it’s not just about raising awareness of quacks. The VtdK is still involved in more hands-on cases. “We ...

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   Beginnings. The organisation was founded in 1881 and is the oldest skeptical organisation in the world. It has published its magazine Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij (NTtdK, "Dutch Magazine against Quackery") ever since.

   • Formation: 1881
   • Membership: 2,000+ (2011)

   • Founder: Bruinsma brothers

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   What is the Dutch society against quackery?

   • The Dutch Society Against Quackery dates back to 1880 and is probably the oldest as well as the largest of its kind in the world. Discontentment with the massive violations of the influential Dutch prime minister's (Johan Rudolf Thorbecke) health laws led to the foundation in 1880 of the Dutch Society against Quackery.

   A Brief History of the ‘Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij’

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   What is the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK)?

   • The Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij or VtdK ( English: Association Against Quackery or Society Against Quackery ) is a Dutch organisation that investigates the claims of alternative medicine and opposes quackery. The organisation was founded in 1881 and is the oldest skeptical organisation in the world.

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   Why did the Bruins call the quacks 'Maandblad tegen de Kwakzalverij'?

   • January 15, 1881, marked the publication of the first periodical of the Society called the Maandblad tegen de Kwakzalverij ('Monthly against Quackery'). In the Monthly, the quacks were described with their full names and addresses, because, as the Bruinsmas stated: 'It's no use accusing the cards, while not mentioning the cardsharps.'

   A Brief History of the ‘Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij’

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   What is the Society Against Quackery?

   • From this initial bit of literature, the Society Against Quackery was born. In the beginning, the group was mainly focused on rooting out fraudulent doctors and suspicious medicines (nostrums).

   What’s Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years

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4. www.ecso.org › organization › vereniging-tegen-deVereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij – European Skeptics

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   Its main activities include the publication of its quarterly magazine Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij (‘Dutch Magazine Against Quackery’) in print and online, and hosting an annual symposium, during which the mock Meester Kackadoris Prize is awarded to the person or organisation that is deemed to have promoted quackery the most ...

5. www.neatorama.com › 2017/05/21 › Whats-Kept-theWhat’s Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years

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   May 21, 2017 · Neatorama has featured many articles about patent medicine, snake oil, quackery, and dangerous cure-alls from the past. Those stories make us feel thankful to be living in the present, where modern medicine is working miracles. In 1881, the Dutch society Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK), translated as The Society Against Quackery, formed to fight the unscientific hucksterism that ...

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   A Dutch organisation that opposes quackery, Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK), was founded in 1881, making it the oldest organisation of this kind in the world. It has published its magazine Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij (Dutch Magazine against Quackery) ever since.

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   The Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij or VtdK (English: Association Against Quackery or Society Against Quackery) is a Dutch organisation that investigates the claims of alternative medicine and opposes quackery. Beginnings. The organisation was founded in 1881 and is the oldest skeptical organisation in the world.

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   Jul 15, 2010 · The Dutch Society Against Quackery dates back to 1880 and is probably the oldest as well as the largest of its kind in the world. A Brief History of the ‘Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij’ - Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij