Sentences with phrase «other quackeries»

For some authors, technology and social media and all that other quackery can be very frustrating when building a presence, online or otherwise.

Not exact matches

The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»

A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.

To be perfectly blunt, the «other side» of this issue is nothing more than a collection of old myths and deliberately deceptive research that's utterly undeserving of recognition (except perhaps in the context of a discussion about modern - day quackery or the like).

To me this is really no different than NCB advocates touting garlic up the vagina, the Brewer diet, Webster chiropractic, cohosh and evening primrose supplements, and any other manner of quackery — the only difference is in degree of woo.

But disturbingly, a good two thirds of the book's contents are relevant today, including Gardner's discussions of homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, iridiagnosis (reading the iris of the eye to deter - mine bodily malfunctions), food faddists, cancer cures and other forms of medical quackery, Edgar Cayce, the Great Pyramid's alleged mystical powers, handwriting analysis, ESP and PK (psychokinesis), reincarnation, dowsing rods, eccentric sexual theories, and theories of group racial differences.

The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real, says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Some sites allow anyone to initiate campaigns, but others sift through scientific proposals and try to screen out those which do not have academic affiliations or are obvious quackery.

Controlling your weight does NOT require eating certain foods and avoiding others, combing foods in specific ways, or any other type of quackery.

Now all the super-antioxidant nutraceuticals and other supplements that are being put into new and improved manufactured, convenience foods, especially healthy snacks, beverages and pet foods, are a prop, a science - based piece of quackery when the basic diet of most consumers — 20 million of whom are morbidly obese in the US alone, — and of our dogs and cats — remains unchanged.

Whether it is homeopathic medicine and other medical quackery, intelligent design «theory», or complex and open global systems, it is important to look not only at the data that is produced, but the motivations for arriving at that data.

Question: Are AGW witchdoctors» predictions of catastrophe based on the casting of chicken bones, numerology, tarot cards or some other for of jigger - pokery quackery?

On the other hand, the bullshit, quackery dr. google nonsense peddled to parents of children with an autism diagnosis is horrifying.