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Quackery

Quackery meaning

The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. | An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

Example sentences (11)

It seemed like another win for quackery and easily refuted pseudoscience, all of which certainly doesn't need any more unchallenged positive publicity in 2020.

The proposed bill for the "Anti Quackery Act of Nigeria 2017" is a piece of document with the sole aim.

And he includes numerous takedowns of quackery, fakery and ego.

National President Elect, IMA, Dr. Rajan Sharma, said addition of Section 32 in the bill will only legalise quackery by empowering the community health providers to practice medicine, thereby endangering the lives of people.

You know what the single biggest counter is for sham-medicine and other general quackery?

He declared that the government would press for maximum punishment for the offender as a deterrent to those who did not have value for life, noting that the state had zero tolerance for quackery.

The Oscar-winning actress has long claimed that she is not encouraging “quackery”, but rather engaging in a discussion about alternatives to mainstream treatments and therapies.

Although there is some limited evidence of positive benefits from the consumption of grapes for health purposes, extreme claims, such as its ability to cure cancer, have been widely derided as “ quackery ”.

Irregular practice became increasingly marginalized as quackery and fraud, as western medicine increasingly incorporated scientific methods and discoveries, and had a corresponding increase in success of its treatments.

Sampson has also written that CAM is the "propagation of the absurd", and argues that alternative and complementary have been substituted for quackery, dubious, and implausible.

Smithers then tells Mr. Burns that phrenology was dismissed as "quackery" 160 years ago.