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Quackery

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Medical Quackery PSA

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What is QUACKERY? What does QUACKERY mean? QUACKERY meaning, definition & explanation

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Quackery Gallery - "Phrenology and the Psycograph"

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares on the market shouting in a loud voice.
    • Definition 

    • Quacksalver 

    • Criticism of quackery in academia 

    • History in Europe and the United States 

    • Contemporary culture 

    • Presence and acceptance 

    • Persons accused of quackery 

    • Information Age quackery