nostrum

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Much of the public believes a useful but unsupportable myth about the so-called liberal media, and the media themselves have been cowed by conservatives into repeating their nonsensical nostrums virtually nonstop.

From Salon

That sentence should have read: “As the Trump administration diddled with nostrums and quack cures, the new surgeon general kept forfeiting his integrity.”

From Washington Post

Never mind that the FDA’s statutory responsibility is to keep injurious nostrums out of the marketplace.

From Los Angeles Times

And it wouldn’t be America had there not been the quacks, showmen with snake-oil nostrums at the ready: garlic derivatives, copper treatments, patent remedies like “Tuberculene” — active ingredient, creosote.

From Los Angeles Times

“Those weary of threadbare liberal economics and repelled by present-day conservative nostrums will find here a great deal to ponder,” Winner added.

From Washington Post