quackery
quack·ery [ ˈkwa-k(ə-)rē]
[ˈkwa-k(ə-)rē]
: the practices or pretensions of a quack Recent Examples on the Web
//These were paradoxical rivers, precious cold headwaters in the desert, the fish runs kept barely alive with billions in work-arounds and techno-quackery.
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Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, "The $68,000 Fish," 28 Oct. 2019
//In 1910, Abraham Flexner, an American educator and education scholar, was hired by the Carnegie Foundation to tour the US and shut down medical schools that were selling quackery, or taking people’s money and not training them, says Piemonte.
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Lila Maclellan, Quartz at Work, "Should we be testing doctors for empathy?," 24 Oct. 2019
//These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
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Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, "Ask Amy: Wronged ex-wife struggles with memorial service," 15 July 2019
//These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
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Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, "Ask Amy: Wronged ex-wife struggles with memorial service," 15 July 2019
//Fat from the American rattlesnake isn’t so useful, but that didn’t stop entrepreneurs from rendering the fat, bottling it—and turning snake oil into a synonym for quackery.
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Lloyd Minor, Fortune, "Why Google’s Crackdown on Fake Medicine Is So Important," 9 Sep. 2019
//These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
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Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, "Ask Amy: Wronged ex-wife struggles with memorial service," 15 July 2019
//These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
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Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, "Ask Amy: Wronged ex-wife struggles with memorial service," 15 July 2019
//These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
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Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Ask Amy: Wronged ex struggles with memorial service," 14 July 2019
First Known Use of quackery
circa 1711, in the meaning defined above
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