quackery
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As a young mother, she rejected traditional medicine in favor of homeopathy, then thought to be a form of quackery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
“It’s just mythology. There was a time when that stuff was really popular. It was the major psychiatric quackery of our time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
For years, diet drugs were viewed as vanity treatments or outright quackery, and many were pulled from the market because of dangerous side effects, including death.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022
His nutritional quackery even led him to monitor her regularity like a doctor, and some of their biggest fights came as a result of his interrogating Lina about her stools.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 1, "Our Spiritual Strivings" by W.E.B. Du Bois
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