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quack remedy

noun as in snake oil

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He was talking about how Gerald Ford was faking his own assassination attempts; in his campaign newsletter Reagan promoted a John Birch Society quack remedy for cancer called Laetrile.

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What quack remedy can I promote today?

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May I here mention en passant a harmless old quack remedy—the common practice of smoking out the microbe.

This scheme Davis considered a quack remedy, and he declared that he could not give it his support because it looked to the employment of force to bring about a condition of security which ought to exist without force.

But the ancient story was about much more than a clever, or quack, remedy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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