Quackery
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Quackery is medical treatment that is utter bollocks put politely, doesn't work. It involves giving false hope to incurably sick, or otherwise ignorant patients and charge exorbitant amounts of money for it. Rather a lot of what is dubbed "alternative medicine" is quackery [1], as is much of the vitamin and herbal supplement business. Implicit in the word is that the quack's nostrum, whatever it may be, is pure snake oil and the quack him/herself is a liar.
Quacks may set up their practices offshore to duck the more stringent laws governing medical practice in the developed world. Hence, some Americans head to Mexico for Laetrile in clinics just over the border, or travel to the Phillipines for a Bio-Energizing Anti-Cancer Zapper Machine. If it ducks like a quack, it's probably a quack.
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- ↑ What little isn't simply hasn't been tested.
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