quack medicine
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Pharmacist and broadcaster Olivier Bernard, who has campaigned against quack medicine in Canada, won early career stage award.
From Nature ● Nov. 12, 2019
I'm no doctor but it certainly sounds like quack medicine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2018
One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2015
Critics have taken Oprah to task for years for her energetic shilling on behalf of peddlers of quack medicine.
From Time ● May 31, 2013
Yet it’s considered acceptable if it’s done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
