Review of the Victorian Dept of Health’s ‘Better Health Channel’

On its ‘Better Health Channel’ web pages; the Department of Health provide ‘Fact Sheets’ relating to complementary and alternative health practices that are not grounded in science and which lack evidence of efficacy.

The Victorian Government, by speculating on unproven medical practices, is culpably negligent in its obligations to the health consumer, encouraging of a credulous public attitude, leaving consumers open to abuse by the many charlatans who are only too willing to commit health fraud by offering false hope to the desperately sick and vulnerable.

We, the undersigned, call on the Dept. of Health to review the ‘Better Health Channel’ to ensure that all information provided is genuinely ‘Quality Assured’ by confining itself to science based medicine, supported by credible evidence of efficacy.