Sentences with phrase «practicing quackery»
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.
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Signing the measure, Governor Brown repeated the view of the psychiatric establishment and medical groups, saying, «This bill bans nonscientific «therapies» that have driven young people to depression and suicide,» adding that the practices «will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.»
Thus it came not only to mean a concern for a person's psycho - social (as well as physical) well - being, but it came also to include some practices which remain untested and which strike some as quackery.
«Beyond Intelligence is laced with common - sense (and occasionally counter-intuitive) implications for parental practice, in which the need to deeply listen to, and understand, the child takes precedence over quick - fix commercial products or educational quackery.
He called on the union to embrace quality control mechanism as to rid the profession of quackery, extortion and unwholesome practices that has eroded it's nobility, and dignity in a way.
Physicians in traditional practices, however, viewed chelation therapy as quackery, since there truly was little science to support it.
Quackery is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.