Quackery

//ˈkwæk(ə)ri//

"Quackery" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Dozens of astrological journals and newspapers are published; quackery drives out medicine; and all this mystical squalor is justified in every possible way by philosophical argumentation.

A new online database is fighting medical quackery by helping people easily find out if their doctor has a license.

When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.

[…] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]

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