Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender...

Radioactive quackery is quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy, which is the scientifically sound...

Quantum mysticism, sometimes referred pejoratively to as quantum quackery or quantum woo, is a set of metaphysical beliefs and associated practices that...

charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or...

Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication—it is one form of hormone therapy. Growth hormone is a peptide...

disproven methods and treatments. It has been described as pseudoscience, quackery, and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine...

under a pro-active Anti-Quackery Strategy, the PHC is running an organized, strategic and consolidated campaign against quackery. This involves mobilizing...

work Trimmer authored was The Natural History of Quackery which documented the history of quackery. He authored the book under the pseudonym Eric Jameson...

fringe medicine, and unconventional medicine, with little distinction from quackery. Some alternative practices are based on theories that contradict the established...

Radithor was a patent medicine that is a well-known example of radioactive quackery and specifically of excessively broad and pseudoscientific application...

and Latin America. The practice of cupping has been characterized as quackery. Cupping practitioners attempt to use cupping therapy for a wide array...

Indian Medical Association regards unqualified siddhars' practices as quackery posing a danger to national health due to absence of training in science-based...

a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north, home of the Aryan race. Quackery is the promotion of ineffective or fraudulent medical treatments. America's...

radioactive source for radioluminescent devices and also in radioactive quackery for its supposed curative power. In nearly all of its applications, radium...

American Medical Association issued a publication titled "Nostrums And Quackery" in which, in a section called "Baby Killers", it incriminated Mrs. Winslow's...

Pseudohistory Pseudomathematics Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery Snake oil Superseded scientific theory True-believer syndrome Voodoo Science...

scientific medicine with ethical, safety and efficacy concerns are termed quackery. Medicine (UK: /ˈmɛdsɪn/ , US: /ˈmɛdɪsɪn/ ) is the science and practice...

radium craze of the early 20th century was an early form of radioactive quackery that resulted in widespread marketing of radium-infused products as being...

Ernst denounced as "financially exploiting the vulnerable" and "outright quackery". Charles personally wrote at least seven letters to the Medicines and...

are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery. There is a range of acupuncture technological variants that originated...

question by medical professionals and its practice has been characterized as quackery. Naturopathic practitioners commonly encourage alternative treatments that...

"the most credulous of faddists" and his book is considered an example of quackery. In 1932, physician Morris Fishbein listed fasting as a fad diet and commented...

it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud. Homeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century...

electricity and magnetism were in the "borderlands" of science and electrical quackery became rife. These concepts continue to inspire writers in the New Age...

activist against quackery. From 1988 to 2011, he was president of the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (VtdK: Dutch Society Against Quackery), which has been...

The history of radiation therapy or radiotherapy can be traced back to experiments made soon after the discovery of X-rays (1895), when it was shown that...

Pseudohistory Pseudomathematics Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery Snake oil Superseded scientific theory True-believer syndrome Voodoo Science...

2021. Retrieved 25 October 2022. Joe Schwarcz PhD QAnon’s Adrenochrome Quackery 10 Feb 2022 Office for Science and Society, McGill University Adrenochrome...

Pseudohistory Pseudomathematics Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery Snake oil Superseded scientific theory True-believer syndrome Voodoo Science...

phytotherapy traditional (prescientific) type: herbalism by animal parts: quackery involving shark fins, tiger parts, and so on, often driving threat or endangerment...