quackery

Example Sentences

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As a young mother, she rejected traditional medicine in favor of homeopathy, then thought to be a form of quackery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

And that is alarming, because Kennedy is a charlatan who opposes evidence-based medicine and promotes discredited quackery.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025

Kennedy has no medical expertise and peddled a range of harmful quackery as a private citizen, including anti-vaccination rhetoric and the benefits of chugging raw milk.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025

“It’s just mythology. There was a time when that stuff was really popular. It was the major psychiatric quackery of our time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

His nutritional quackery even led him to monitor her regularity like a doctor, and some of their biggest fights came as a result of his interrogating Lina about her stools.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides