quackery

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Of course, most nonsensical of all is the detox foot bath, and that Cherrix could believe in such quackery -- yes, quackery, there's

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  1. The boastful pretensions or knavish practice of a quack, particularly in medicine; empiricism; charlatanry; humbug. Such quackery is unworthy any person who pretends to learning. Porson, Letters to Travis, p. 41, note. An epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, i. 2.

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  • Many dismiss the idea of using scents to bring medical results as quackery, and that's understandable in many ways.
  • We then opted to decline chemotherapy (you will be dead within a year) as well as decline radiation (seriously, you are really dead within a year now, take the chemo and radiation you crazy person with cancer) and instead began the Beck Protocol based on Dr. Robert Beck's open source schematics (the "quackery" referenced in the previous two posts) which he published in —  Planet Atheism
  • He kept an open mind on Hahnemann's principle of 'like cures like', but had no time for medical quackery, whether by unorthodox practitioners or by mainstream doctors. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • If the NIH wastes money on quackery, its officers do not suffer a loss. —  The Liberty Papers
  • Of course, most nonsensical of all is the detox foot bath, and that Cherrix could believe in such quackery -- yes, quackery, there's —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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