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n. The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.

n. An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

n. The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.

n. The boastful pretensions or knavish practice of a quack, particularly in medicine; empiricism; charlatanry; humbug.

n. the dishonesty of a charlatan

n. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings

"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."

dishonesty    knavery    medical practice   

fraud   

quack   

empiricism    imposture    charlatanry    charlatanism    mountebankery   

Thackeray    Zachary    daiquiri   

charlatanism    charlatanry    humbug    imposture    swindle