quack medicine

During Bizon's trial on Wednesday, the nurse said that the lawmaker "tried to bully, coerce and intimidate me to practice quack medicine because he believed in conspiracy theories."

As the historian Rick Perlstein pointed out some time back, peddlers of quack medicine and right-wing extremists have had a long and happy relationship.

If not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.

He has also promoted quack medicine and encouraging price gouging in the market for masks, ventilators and other essential equipment.

Pharmacist and broadcaster Olivier Bernard, who has campaigned against quack medicine in Canada, won early career stage award.