 Heilpraktiker were created by the Nazis as a counter within alternative medicine to the "occult" practices of anthroposophy.The Nazi link was noted in a 1939 "Time" article titled "Hitler's quacks", and alternative medicine researcher Edzard Ernst has also written on the links between heilpraktiker and Nazism, and described it as "a relic from the Nazis that endangers public health" in a series of blog posts, also arguing against extension of the practice.Heilpraktiker have been identified as involved with fake cancer cures.