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
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
Though most of the action takes place a decade or more ago in another hemisphere, its themes of medical quackery, alternative facts and social-media echo chambers are more relevant than ever in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
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
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
Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The vulgar quackeries drop off, atrophied, one after another.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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