What is quackery

Quackery is a term used, when people don’t believe in certain medical treatments. Some people may call acupuncture quackery, and similar alternative medical treatments.

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Quackery: Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of disease.

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

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Quackery???

Q: What is Quackery??What are the possible effects of quack medicine???

A: “Quackery” derives from the word quacksalver (someone who boasts about his salves). Dictionaries define quack as “a pretender to medical skill; a charlatan” and “one who talks pretentiously without sound knowledge of the subject discussed.” These definitions suggest that the promotion of quackery involves deliberate deception, but many promoters sincerely believe in what they are doing. The FDA defines health fraud as “the promotion, for profit, of a medical remedy known to be false or unproven.” This also can cause confusion because in ordinary usage — and in the courts — the word “fraud” connotes deliberate deception. Quackery’s paramount characteristic is promotion (“Quacks quack!”) rather than fraud, greed, or misinformation.”possible side effects could be as extreme as death (a lot of women died from the miracle breast cancer cure a while back and all it was doing was giving them arsenic poisoning) or as little as wasted time and money

What is a motivating statement of why it is necessary to watch out for quackery?

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A: People have died from improperly performed cosmetic surgery and injections from quacks posing as legitimate plastic surgeons.

what is an example of quackery and self-fulfilling phophecy?

Q: what is an example of quackery? and self-fulfilling phophecy?

A: An example of quackery would be a physician who claims he or she can heal depression using the power of certain gems or stones. An example of self-fulfilling prophecy is the client who seeks out the services of the above-mentioned quack. He/she comes to the quack for the treatment of depression, fully expecting the nonsense “treatment” to work. Because he/she EXPECTS the “treatment” to be effective… it is. The lifting of the depression, of course, is not due to pressing special stones against the body. Rather, the person cured him/herself via self-fulfilling prophecy.~M~