Quackery Synonyms

kwakərē
Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. charlatanism
  2. pretense
  3. misrepresentation
  4. empiricism
  5. imposture

Words Related to Quackery

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. deception
  2. dishonesty
  3. pseudoscience
  4. pseudo-science

Quackery Sentence Examples

  • He was a great admirer of Galen; and in his writings he protests emphatically against quackery and the superstitious remedies of the astrologers.

  • Empiricism, hitherto the only guide, if indeed a guide at all, was replaced by exact scientific knowledge; the connexion of each phenomenon with a controllable cause was established, and rule-of-thumb and quackery banished for ever by the free gift to the world of the results of his researches.

  • The poem is a typical ' popular ' piece in the alliterative stanza, 91 lines, and is a satire on medical quackery.

  • There is useful information on questionable therapies, and advice on how to spot bogus health scams and other Quackery.

  • The American Medical Association took a stance against naturopathy in the 1920s, calling it quackery, while it promoted the so-called miracle drugs that were being introduced to the medical community at a rapid rate.

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