quackery

[ kwak-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural quack·er·ies.

1. the practice or methods of a quack.
2. an instance of this.

quackery

/ ˈkwækərɪ /

noun

1. the activities or methods of a quack

Word History and Origins

Origin of quackery¹

First recorded in 1700–10; quack ² + -ery

Example Sentences

Conspirators also played the media, manipulating the false objectivity of both-sides framing to claim equal time for scientific consensus and quackery.

From Time

This sentiment, Garcia shows throughout his book, continues today even if the delivery methods have changed, in the form of “anti-vaccine quackery” that has hit autistic people hard.

From Washington Post

Like the much more malicious myth that vaccines cause autism, it began with quackery.

From Popular-Science

Near the end of a period in which all sorts of quackery flourished, these assemblages speak not to reemergence but to the enduring appeal of intellectual retreat.

From Washington Post

The medical establishment has typically responded to such charges of quackery, even from other doctors by touting their specialized training, credentials and skills to deal with disease and illness.

From No Straight News

Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of Functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery.

From The Daily Beast

For decades, “leaky gut syndrome” was passed off as quackery.

From The Daily Beast

The comic poets ridiculed pretension, arrogance, quackery, and lies.

From Project Gutenberg

It is written in popular style for the masses and is a sharp and effective weapon for the campaign against quackery.

From Project Gutenberg

You forget also, that in France the age of quackery is over.

From Project Gutenberg

With such notions abroad, quackery must have been rife, and serious medical practitioners had many difficulties to contend with.

From Project Gutenberg

Honesty itself was never more free from quackery or deception than was this embodied and walking Vice.

From Project Gutenberg