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quackery

[kwak-uh-ree] / ˈkwæk ə ri /


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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

Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

MMT died a quicker death in the public square than its predecessors in quackery, or so it seemed.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 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

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

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

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

Besides this, he imbibed all the follies and quackeries which others had rejected,—a circumstance in which visionaries entirely differ from philosophers. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by George Henry Borrow


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