CFI Creates Office of Consumer Protection from Pseudoscience

The Center for Inquiry has established a new arm in its battle against quackery, bringing all its efforts in this arena together under one proverbial roof.

On April 15, CFI announced the launch of its Office of Consumer Protection from Pseudoscience. It will bring legal action, issue warning letters, and seek to educate and inform the public and legislators—both state and federal—to properly protect the public from the harms of these scam products and “treatments.”

The website to the new office includes a contact section for consumers to tell CFI where they see pseudoscience being used to defraud.

“Core to CFI’s mission is challenging pseudoscience,” CFI Vice President and Legal Counsel Nick Little said in announcing the new office. “It’s not enough just to be right in these situations. As skeptics and humanists, we have an obligation to protect people from the harm pseudoscience represents. Now we are doing it under a new name and a single organization—the Office of Consumer Protection from Pseudoscience.”


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