(n.) One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
(n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan.
(a.) Alt. of Empirical
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(3) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(5) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
(6) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(7) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(8) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
(9) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.
(10) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
(11) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
(12) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
(13) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(14) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(15) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
(16) This study is directed toward the empirical elaboration of four of these issues as they relate to adjustment in the community.
(17) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
(18) In addition to a detailed description of the method, examples for its applications are given, including concomitant investigations of the same cells by empirical staining, immunostaining, and fluorescence histochemistry of biogenic monoamines; colocalization of multiple peptides to the same cells and corresponding specificity controls; three-dimensional reconstructions based upon immunostained serial semithin sections; quantitative (computer-assisted) determinations of immunoreactivities.
(19) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(20) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
Quack
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
(v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
(v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
(n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
(n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
(n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
(a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agency has worked with other authorities to move against quack AIDS products and to educate the public concerning this health fraud.FDA hopes that through all these efforts it can help researchers in government, academia, and industry advance the development, testing, and review of safe and effective therapies, preventatives,and diagnostics for AIDS and related conditions.
(2) The FPC has neither, so it risks just going quack- quack on a murky pond," he said.
(3) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
(4) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
(5) Their ruling will help young people Duncan Smith's department had pushed into quack schemes on pain of losing their benefit.
(6) No politician can keep a promise to bring back jobs – especially not Donald Trump Read more Like all good quack analysis, it is instantly digestible, it makes little demands of its audience: no scouring of footnotes nor leafing through history.
(7) Brome, western wheat, and quack grasses demonstrated RAST inhibition patterns similar to the northern grasses.
(8) Mega-projects have become the quack remedies of modern politics.
(9) But it isn't only quack journals that have failures in peer review.
(10) We are taught to bark like dogs, quack like ducks around the same time we are learning the words for mummy and daddy.
(11) The policy quacks urge us to breezeblock the greenbelt.
(12) These objects include radium in devices which were used by legitimate medical practitioners for legitimate medical purposes such as therapy, as well as a wide variety of "quack cures."
(13) It was a quick political fix, a quack’s remedy that seemed to deal with the symptoms in the short term when it was really just aggravating the causes.
(14) If this is not double-dip recession it is certainly starting to walk, talk and quack like one.
(15) State media alleged that in pursuit of profits, Baidu had allowed its online health forums to become “flooded with quacks and advertisements for unlicensed hospitals”.
(16) Cue Baxter’s own recollection of her angst about the jab, which concluded with the claim that some parents were “being used by a quack and a fraud”.
(17) The structure of sinistrin from red squill (Urginea maritima) was determined by methylation analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy, using the fructans from Pucinella peisonis and quack-grass (Agropyron repens) as reference substances.
(18) George Orwell berated them as "fruit juice drinkers, nudists, sex maniacs, Quakers, nature-cure quacks, pacifists and feminists", while others have, outrageously, labelled them Guardian writers and readers.
(19) For Robert De Niro to use the platform of his internationally known film festival to lend credibility to a quack peddling toxic misinformation about autism is, among other things, a flagrant abuse of power and privilege – yes, white power and privilege.
(20) He doesn’t look particularly comfortable, writes resident Guardian quack Dr Murray, who has no clue whatsoever if he’s being honest.