quack remedy

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.

What quack remedy can I promote today?

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.