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
That leads into Colorado’s second justification—that conversion therapy does indeed contravene the standard of care by subjecting minors to “discredited” quackery far more likely to harm than help.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2025
Kennedy has no medical expertise and peddled a range of harmful quackery as a private citizen, including anti-vaccination rhetoric and the benefits of chugging raw milk.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 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
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
We live in a land of abounding quackeries and if we do not learn how to laugh, we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024
Beautiful, energetic and not entirely scrupulous, Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee practiced many of the popular quackeries of the day: seances, psychic remedies, a bottled "elixir of life."
From Time Magazine Archive
New York City, as a community, last year spent 150 millions caring for the sick �on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, drugs, quackeries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 860 farm families surveyed last year paid out an average of $104.94 each for doctors, nurses, hospital care, medicines, quackeries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quackeries of miracle-cure, shrine-cure, relic-cure, were destined to eclipse the genius of Hippocrates, and nearly two thousand years to intervene between Archimedes and Newton, nearly seventeen hundred between Hipparchus and Kepler.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
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The Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 1, "Our Spiritual Strivings" by W.E.B. Du Bois
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