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Quackery

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Noun

1. empiricism, quackery

medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

2. charlatanism, quackery

the dishonesty of a charlatan

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quackery

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noun plural -eries
the activities or methods of a quack

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Quackery

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noun
the claims or methods of a quack

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quackery

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n.
1. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.
2. A charlatan; a mountebank.
adj.
Relating to or characteristic of a quack: a quack cure.
intr.v. quacked, quack·ing, quacks
To act as a medical quack or a charlatan.

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