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No one knows how much quackery costs the U. S. In recent
hearings conducted by the Subcommittee on Frauds and
Misrepresentations affecting the elderly, a unit of the
United States Senate's Special Committee on Aging, testi-
mony indicated the costs ran into hundreds of millions each
year.
The sad part of these dealers in quackery is
that this affects the poor, the sick and the elderly
beyond the loss of money, for they bring suffering, disap-
pointment and despair, and hold out false hopes in terms
of significant ailments such as arthritis.
Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., recently
said "Do we really know how many Americans are quietly
using therapy or products that can give them neither cure
nor the hope of cure?"
We live in an age of chemistry, and products so
manufactured bring forth numerous hazards. For example,
an investigation by the Fair Trade Commission in April,
1966, pointed out that certain sweaters manufactured in
New York were highly flammable. Television and radio pro-
grams broadcast the dangers and in a demonstration one