Sentences with phrase «quack medicine»

He has been tireless in his efforts to fight quack medicine and to maintain liberal standards in our medical ethics laws.

I'd also say that the levels of social normalization of quack medicine are quite high.

It found prayer was not effective, and even less effective than the hokey quack medicine «techniques» which at least helped people by giving them positive human attention.

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.

Not exact matches

This would be like saying, because there are some quacks in the medical and scientific communities, we should do away with medicine and science.

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).

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

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.

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.

My fear is candidates turned president will buckle like all those before them, and the medicine for our energy, environment, and climate woes, whatever it is, will be tossed in favor of some quack cure, or rather a whole bevvy of subsidies and other favorites that do not confront all of us with the need to changes technologies, adjust how we live and reformat our expectations.

(through drastic slashing of manufacturing technologies, draconian cap and trade taxation, repossession of private property, and a whole host of other proceedures of questionable value), and on the other, you have the alternative medicine quack that says «The pain is all in your mind» (EG, the non-scientists that say that human released carbon dioxide has no impact on the environment whatsoever, in spite of the fact that this is not supported by even the slightest bit of chemical evidence.)

Quacks flourish and the sale of patent medicines for syphilis has become big business because even the severe and recognizable early symptoms usually are transitory.