Where the distinction between reliable and unreliable information is unclear, quackery, soothsaying, and magical thinking thrive. |
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Let us not be put off by the use of the word holistic, which we have come frequently to associate with some homeopathic quackery. |
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I'm sure you that know the entire profession is based on unscientific quackery. |
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The Skeptic's Dictionary is a compendium of detailed information about oft-repeated hoaxes, legends and quackery. |
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These organizations are supposedly immune to quackery, pseudoscience, and plain swindles. |
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Posting this sort of apparently innocuous message to newsgroups and mailing lists is one of the hallmarks of spammers and purveyors of quackery. |
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Exposing quackery in clinical psychology has in fact a much longer history than the article notes. |
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Mesmerism is a bit of medical quackery developed in the 18th century by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer. |
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There you will find extensive accounts of this and other forms of quackery, from Ayurveda and aromatherapy to zen shiatsu to zone therapy. |
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Any one can set up a site on the Internet and cyberspace is littered with misinformation, fraud and quackery. |
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Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery. |
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I wonder what quackery the Kuwaiti authorities plan to invent in their vain attempt to identify gay men. |
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Moreover, he sees himself in the tradition of an H. L. Mencken or George S. Schuyler as a satiric denouncer of all forms of cant, quackery, and nonsense. |
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If we do not, then we are doing quackery on people in other countries and treating them less than our own people. |
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Substituting logic and reasoning for quackery and fraud appalls me. |
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A Chinese herb lowers high blood pressure in a patient with heart disease after being dismissed as quackery by doctors. |
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The circulation of fake medicines and medical quackery have also been on the rise. |
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The ever-returning 'miracle ingredients' are nothing but a form of quackery and a pointless attack on your budget which you should avoid. |
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We see anything else as quackery, and want no part of it. |
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Even then, ruthlessness and outright quackery lurked behind the façade. |
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Dr. William Chan: Well, I must say that I pretty well grew up in Canada, and if you'd asked me about Chinese medicine eight or ten years ago I, along with some other people, would have said it was quackery. |
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How can people sort out the truth from the quackery? |
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Most people think of chiropractic as, at best, something good for back pains and, at worst, pure quackery. |
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Alternative medicine is criticized for being based on misleading statements, quackery, pseudoscience, antiscience, fraud, or poor scientific methodology. |
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Quackery usually involves integrating metaphysics and such things as sympathetic magic or spiritualism with healing. |
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