(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.
Quackery
Definition:
(n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
(2) The U.S. Congress determined quackery to be the most harmful consumer fraud against elderly people.
(3) He disparaged medical quackery but actively supported therapies such as vaccination that were based on research and careful observation.
(4) Health practitioners have an obligation to be sensitive to patients' needs, and to provide emotional as well as medical support, to communicate openly with patients and families, and to nurture the trust that will prevent abandonment of traditional medical care in favor of quackery.
(5) The Congress of the United States has estimated that $2 billion is spent annually on cancer quackery.
(6) In medical quackery, inventiveness seems to be limitless, and only the main paranormal healing systems can be reviewed here.
(7) Cancer quackery involves about $2 billion each year in the United States alone.
(8) The doctor, George Delgado, has published a paper in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy reporting that “four of six women who took mifepristone were able to carry their pregnancies to term after receiving intramuscular progesterone 200mg.” Delgado maintains a website, abortionpillreversal.com , which advises “It may not be too late!” It’s quackery, according to medical advisory groups.
(9) Recently, some have hailed hyperthermia as the new fourth method of cancer therapy, and others have branded the treatment as "quackery" surrounded by mysticism, ignorance, and confusion.
(10) A by no means exhaustive list of his political interventions includes: health – he forced ministers to listen to his gormless support for homeopathic treatments and every other variety of charlatanism and quackery; defence – he protested against cuts in the armed forces; justice – he complained about ordinary people’s access to law, or as he put it: “I dread the very real and growing prospect of an American-style personal injury culture”; political correctness – he opposes equality as I suppose a true royal must; GM foods – he thinks they’re dangerous, regardless of evidence; modern architecture – he’s against; and eco-towns – he’s for, as long as he has a say in their design.
(11) Quackery has for centuries used aphrodisiacs to exploit vulnerable victims, 30% of whom, through the power of suggestion, have achieved sexual success from potions, powders and genital pomades.
(12) Twenty-three children had been treated by alternative medicine in violation of the Swedish law against quackery, but legal action had not been taken in any case.
(13) With the uncertainties surrounding PMS in the 1980s, the potential for quackery is tremendous.
(14) In the commentary, it is stated that refunding of costs for nonconventional medical treatment is neither justified nor helpful, because it favours power struggle, sectarianism, and envourages quackery and charlatans.
(15) While poor clinical research, like poor conventional treatment, certainly exists, it is nonetheless true that clinical research has a permanent place in cancer treatment and provides an important alternate to cancer quackery.
(16) These alternative therapies vary from active involvement in promotion of one's own health (exercise, diet) to quackery.
(17) The site is not intended to be comical, but with articles on 'Massage therapy: riddled with quackery' and '10 ways to avoid being quacked', you cannot help a gentle chuckle.
(18) In a paper presented on the occasion of the 5th Congress of gynecology in the GDR the author discusses in details the phenomenon of modern occultism and quackery.
(19) The psychopathology of health fraud, the standards by which pseudoscience and health quackery are defined, and the complexities of learning disorders are discussed.
(20) Quackery disguised as science can have a destructive effect on a country already deep in trouble, on a people profoundly misguided by the populist rhetoric of most of their politicians.