Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender...

Radioactive quackery is quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy, which is the scientifically sound...

charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or...

"the most credulous of faddists" and his book is considered an example of quackery. In 1932, physician Morris Fishbein listed fasting as a fad diet and commented...

Quantum mysticism, sometimes referred pejoratively to as quantum quackery or quantum woo, is a set of metaphysical beliefs and associated practices that...

disproven methods and treatments. It has been described as pseudoscience, quackery, and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine...

work Trimmer authored was The Natural History of Quackery which documented the history of quackery. He authored the book under the pseudonym Eric Jameson...

Indian Medical Association regards unqualified siddhars' practices as quackery posing a danger to national health due to absence of training in science-based...

Pseudohistory Pseudomathematics Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery Snake oil Superseded scientific theory True-believer syndrome Voodoo Science...

fringe medicine, and unconventional medicine, with little distinction from quackery. Some alternative practices are based on theories that contradict the established...

Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of excessively broad and pseudoscientific application...

Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication—it is one form of hormone therapy. Growth hormone is a peptide...

received accreditation as a non-profit, many of her claims were denounced as quackery, and her qualifications were never confirmed to be genuine. Wigmore was...

under a pro-active Anti-Quackery Strategy, the PHC is running an organized, strategic and consolidated campaign against quackery. This involves mobilizing...

Cupping has been characterized as a pseudoscience and its practice as quackery. Cupping practitioners attempt to use cupping therapy for a wide array...

health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere"....

activist against quackery. From 1988 to 2011, he was president of the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK: Dutch Society Against Quackery), which has been...

Reiki is a pseudoscience, and its practice has been characterized as quackery. Reiki is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly...

question by medical professionals and its practice has been characterized as quackery. Naturopathic practitioners commonly encourage alternative treatments that...

scientific medicine with ethical, safety and efficacy concerns are termed quackery. Medicine (UK: /ˈmɛdsɪn/ , US: /ˈmɛdɪsɪn/ ) is the science and practice...

it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud. Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century...

Ernst denounced as "financially exploiting the vulnerable" and "outright quackery". Charles personally wrote at least seven letters to the Medicines and...

phytotherapy traditional (prescientific) type: herbalism by animal parts: quackery involving shark fins, tiger parts, and so on, often driving threat or endangerment...

are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery. There is a range of acupuncture technological variants which originated...

American Medical Association issued a publication titled "Nostrums And Quackery" in which, in a section called "Baby Killers", it incriminated Mrs. Winslow's...

2021. Retrieved 25 October 2022. Joe Schwarcz PhD QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery 10 Feb 2022 Office for Science and Society, McGill University Adrenochrome...

has been described in the medical literature as a canonical example of quackery, and as "the slickest, most sophisticated, and certainly the most remunerative...

a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north, home of the Aryan race. Quackery is the promotion of ineffective or fraudulent medical treatments. America's...

illnesses, including cancer, a practice which has been characterized as "pure quackery". The therapy can cause serious adverse effects, including death. Ozone...

electricity and magnetism were in the "borderlands" of science and electrical quackery became rife. These concepts continue to inspire writers in the New Age...