Sentences with phrase «as quacks»

Every time you promote a now discredited theory, you are doing even more damage — you are not only risking the whole profession being seen as quacks and new age romantics, you may well be harming learners.

You have been described as a quack - buster for your work testing alternative medicine.

Dr. Finch employs electro - shock therapy and loads of psychiatric drugs to treat his patients, none of whom seem quite as wacky as this quack (he even has a special Masturbatorium chamber in his home where he relieves his stress).

you can use the sounds available, such as a quacking of a duck, a toy rattle, or a chirping bird or squeaking toy, to get their attention long enough for that picture - perfect shot.

He was subsequently dismissed as a quack by his peers who scoffed at the idea of bacteria living in the stomach.

Not exact matches

The Dodd - Frank Act had six major provisions that affected Main Street corporate governance, all of which I have derided as «quack» corporate governance:

When will people realize that just as there are good doctors and quacks, good cops and rogue cops, there can also be good religions and bad religions?»

iif your refer to quack medicine without scientific research as practiced in china or elsewhere i am sure its goes back even perhaps even more than 2000 years.

Though his words were like roaring quacks to my ears, in my head I heard his meaning plain as day.

It's as if a person is warned by his doctor to lose weight and stop smoking but does neither, but, when he has a heart attack, proclaims his doctor to be a quack.

Soon Thomson began to scorn physicians as «educated quacks» and «parasites.»

This is as dumb as saying that for 99 % of human history, quack remedies were the primary or only source of medical care (since modern medicine only arrived in the 20th century).

Since then many more quacks have paraded around the same CIO dribble as Dr. Spock in a pretty new packaged selling is as «sleep training» for babies.

The invocation of mysterious forces, «energy flow» and intentional biologic processes marks her as a garden variety quack.

Featuring an old photo of her family with someone dressed as apparently as Donald Duck and apparently at a childhood birthday party («Oops, that link wasn't what it was quacked up to be»), it also includes a volunteer signup link.

He paints them as either ignorant, money - hungry quacks who don't have a clue what real medicine is, or dismisses them as vapid celebrities who should do their homework before influencing the public by endorsing medical treatments.

The exit from the hospital was strange as the dietitian, doctor and endocrinologist all said what I was doing was wrong and Bernstein was a quack... really?

Paleo quacks and others gush rivers of ignorance with terms such as «anti-nutrients» in regard to Phytic acid in beans and grains.

The «crackpots» and the «quacks» had been reading that evidence as it came out and knew that a good 30 years before.

Of course, I'm sure you'll refer to him as some kind of quack or snake oil salesman, because he doesn't follow what is engrained in nutrition courses and books, and guidelines thrown together by the USDA, which by the way, has done nothing to make us healthier as a population.

It's very easy to refer to someone as a «phony» or «quack» if we don't believe in or understand what they are doing.

Those who helped craft the guidelines call doctors who support natural medicine «quacks», and specifically name Dr. Oz as one of the physicians making bogus claims based on pseudoscience.

She left Dr. Quack and his company as soon as Capital B took over, taking her special inventions with her.

They're less keen, but are a uniquely unpleasant trio themselves: quack to the stars Dr Stafford Weiss (a nicely nasty John Cusack, clearly enjoying his new villainous groove), pushy parent Christina (Olivia Williams - brilliantly brittle, as ever) and, the object of Christina's ruthless deal - making, 13 - year - old teen idol Benjie (Evan Bird), the spoilt star of a horrible film franchise called «Bad Babysitter».

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.

When you press the button on the key fob, the car emits a quacking sound, as if someone stepped on a duck.

He picked up the phone on the fourth ring and heard Detective Sergeant Don Dyson going on at him in his chilly quack of a voice as if they had been separated in the middle of an argument and were only now, three months later, resuming it.

So many people fear taking a risk on an unknown author when they can just as easily plunk down their cash for a known one that it makes it quacking hard for an insane duck lady to bridge the great divide between known and unknown.

How about a writer like yours truly who has books out on Amazon that are published by Quacking Alone Romances but has the same books out and about everywhere else as being published by Smashwords?

Come on Hampton, hurry,» Burks quacked as they ran to the opened field to play.

The villains, Capital B and Dr. Quack, are hilarious in their ineptitude as bad guys.

Waiting to be shipped out, in a shed abutting the kitchen, her new commissions for Quack Quack, as the new Serpentine show is called, draw on memories from her time in Kensington as a child during the blitz, as well as observations of the park's present - day visitors — a mix of fighter planes, cavorting dogs and resting migrants.

Rose Wylie: Quack Quack It feels as if the art world has been playing catch - up when it comes to Kent - based Rose Wylie's large paintings, often inspired by recollections and facts (Pink Skater: Will I Win, Will I Win, above).

Join our 2010 «Woman to Watch», Rose Wylie, as she leads us around her acclaimed exhibition Quack, Quack at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

The group show is curated by Gregor Quack as well as Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff of Berlin's km temporaer and titled (maybe) after a lyric from 1968 The Nova Local song «If You Only Had the Time» - otherwise its sampling on the the Danger Mouse and MF Doom collab track «The Mask `.

To suggest that EPA has kept some quack on the payroll for 40 + years is to question the efficacy of EPA as a whole.

Ronald Reagan discarded reality and intelligence as a tool of American policy, and handed our government over to the greedy and the quacks; George H. W. Bush proved that in an era of campaign ads and sound bites, the side that smears wins.

As a communcator & activist I feel it is my job to apply the Duck Test — if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a damn duck!

Skeptics there are routinely portrayed and treated as denialist quacks.

Seriously, I smell BS here, as for Jones, I think he is a quack that needs to stop whining and share what he has, like a little spoiled brat in the sandbox, I think he is just afraid someone will debunk him (which happened in the past already) and prove him inadequate to hold on to that data.

It is no longer prudent for the environmental movement to think of geoengineering as a closeted secret of quack scientists or something out of an Isaac Asimov novel.

As a good analogy, the climate contrarian is often like a medical quack dressed up in a white coat to look like a medical specialist.

As long as the billionaire globalist keep funding them, they will keep quackinAs long as the billionaire globalist keep funding them, they will keep quackinas the billionaire globalist keep funding them, they will keep quacking.

My position for many years has been that the climate change scammers don't bother to read and are being led by the nose, and by quacks masqurading as scientists, down the road to massive new taxes to solve a problem that does not exist, and that we could not fix if it did.

But as with cigarette smoking and cancer, systemic causality will apply - if it walks like a duck, quacks like duck etc, etc

I say yay, shouted from the rooftops, to beneficial and effective solutions to real problems not, as I said above, to quack solutions to non-problems.

Just as the old saying goes, «If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck,» or rather, in this case, «If you own a rental property like a landlord, have tenants like a landlord, and receive rent money in exchange for accommodation, then you're probably a landlord.»

In cooperation with Best Lawyers ®, German newspaper Handelsblatt has named six WilmerHale partners as The Best Lawyers in Germany © 2017 in their respective areas of practice, and Partner Ulrich Quack was honored as «Lawyer of the Year 2017» in the field of Competition / Antitrust Law.

As to wholesaling, my opinion is rather simplistic, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, it's a duck.

As I've said in previous threads, if it quacks like a duck, judges will assume it's a duck.