Definition of "quackery" []

• The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. (noun)
• An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine. (noun)

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• "There are definitely problems in the medical system but this quackery is not the answer, it only creates more problems."
• "Their definition of quackery is the application of treatments that have not been scientifically proven to have any effects, that are practiced by physicians as well as specialists without a MD and they organise congresses from time to time where they say things like this."
• "What some call quackery was just the right prescription for Doletzky, who says he's suspicious of traditional treatment and the U.S. health care system."