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Complementary or alternative medicine works outside the evidence-based realm of science. This area includes alt-med stories that don't fit into any of our other categories. Read more about alternative medicine

Here are 276 people who were harmed by someone not thinking critically.

Oxford, England

Died (untreated breast cancer)1998

Bungoma, Kenya

Genitals mutilatedMarch 2005

Age: 55Fort Bragg, California

Died (cancer)July 15, 1997

Age: 57Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada

Died (poisoning)December 26, 2006

Age: 58Tulsa, Oklahoma

Died (undiagnosed leukemia)October 2005

Age: 5 monthsLos Angeles, California

Died (untreated cancer)

Age: 64New York City, New York

Blinded1997

Age: 32Arizona

DiedMarch 1993

Age: 41Paris, France

DiedMarch 31, 2001

Age: 54Pelham, New Hampshire

Died (untreated cancer)2000

Age: 39Sacramento, California

Died (cancer)March 20, 1999

Age: 13Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada

Died (cancer)June 30, 1999

Age: 9Siegen, Germany

Died (untreated cancer)November 2004

Age: 19Wheat Ridge, Colorado

DiedDecember 19, 2003

Age: 49Sandy, Utah

Died

Age: 46Macon, Georgia

Died (cancer)November 7, 1999

Age: 3Scituate, Massachusetts

Died (cyanide poisoning)October 12, 1979

Post Falls, Idaho

Died (untreated cancer)January 2005

Age: 54Hamilton, Michigan

DiedFebruary 6, 1996

Age: 43Poole, Dorset, England

Died (untreated cancer)June 2002

St. Louis, Missouri

DiedJanuary 24, 2007

Age: 76Windsor, Wisconsin

DiedMay 9, 2005

Michigan

Father died of untreated cancerMarch 1996

Age: 9New York

Died (untreated Hodgkin's disease)1980

Age: 17Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Died (leukemia)September 5, 2002

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Family destroyed, daughter diedSeptember 5, 2002

Husband poisonedApril 12, 2002

Age: 40

Died (untreated breast cancer)December 11, 2005

Age: 52Southsea, Hampshire, England

Died (untreated wound)April 17, 2007

Age: 15Bungoma, Kenya

Genitals mutilatedMarch 2005

Age: 12Hull, Quebec, Canada

Died (untreated diabetes)March 28, 1994

Age: 36Nine Miles, Jamaica

Died (untreated cancer)May 11, 1981

Age: 11North Canton, Ohio

Died (cancer)May 17, 2007

Age: 59Seattle, Washington

Died, $17,000 wasted on quack deviceSeptember 3, 2005

Age: 50Jurez, Mexico

Died (lung cancer)November 7, 1980

Age: 45Boxmeer, Netherlands

Died (untreated cancer)August 19, 2001

Cape Town, South Africa

DiedOctober 2005

Orlando, Florida

Sold useless treatments for her cancer, died2007

Du Noon, Cape Town, South Africa

DiedOctober 30, 2005

Age: 33Kansas City, Kansas

DiedJanuary 2004

Age: 57Arundel, Queensland, Australia

Untreated tumors, shortened life spanFebruary 2002 - June 2004

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Died (liver failure)December 17, 1987

Janesville, Wisconsin

Died (untreated cancer)April 2000

Age: 5North London, England

Bowel perforated in 12 places1998

Age: 2 months

Died1978

Age: 40New York City, New York

Died1995

Age: 36Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Died (cancer)March 2, 2000

Age: 52Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Died (untreated cancer)March 8, 2003

Age: 68Los Angeles, California

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