Quackery

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares on the market shouting in a loud voice.

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The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Healing, Hype or Harm?: A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine (Societas)
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Zenarchy
Of Certain Strange Phenomena Appearing in the Contents of Books
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The Art & Science of Ernst Haeckel
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William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures
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Quackaduceus
106 books — 3 voters
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•Medical The Poetical
100 books — 2 voters

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•Medical Poetry
91 books — 10 voters

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Pseudoscience & Bullshit
334 books — 21 voters
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•Uptown Suckers
171 books — 4 voters


Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poichè il destino e gli eventi li avevano tenuti per tanto tempo separati, occorrevva che qualche cosa di lieve e come indifferente corresse avanti ad aprire le porte dell'anima a parole più gravi, suggerite da più gravi pensieri. ...more
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pope Brock
the average American was as gullible as a wide-mouthed shad
Pope Brock, Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

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