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.
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Quackery
/ˈkwæk(ə)ri/
Synonyms for "quackery" (11 found)
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5 entriesmedical impostormiracle curepatent medicinequack doctorsnake oil
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5 entriesmedical quackeryquackery allegationsquackery claimsquackery industryquackery remedies
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A new online database is fighting medical quackery by helping people easily find out if their doctor has a license.
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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.
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[…] 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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