quackery

[ UK /kwˈækəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈkwækɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
  2. the dishonesty of a charlatan
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How To Use quackery In A Sentence

  • By the poverty and ignorance of his people the Negro lawyer or doctor was pushed toward quackery and demagogism, and by the criticism of the other world toward an elaborate preparation that overfitted him for his lowly tasks. Strivings of the Negro People
  • Quackery usually involves integrating metaphysics and such things as sympathetic magic or spiritualism with healing.
  • There is no fun going on now-a-days -- no quackery, no mountebankery, no asses, colonial or otherwise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
  • Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.
  • The world of “complimentary and alternative medicine” otherwise known as quackery is even worse: the waste is 100%. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Fixing What Already Exists Before Adding More
  • When people hear the word ‘mystic’, what immediately comes to mind is quackery, voodoo, black magic and the like.
  • Using aspirin, an over-the-counter pill on sale in every supermarket without a prescription, to treat serious circulatory disease may seem almost like quackery.
  • We are still, therefore, exposed to the humiliation of hearing that spiritualistic quackery is freely practised in England. London: Saturday, September 16, 1865
  • Its primary focus is on quackery -related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
  • People are intoxicated thing repeatedly reported, but no expose quackery mystery.
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