Sentences with phrase «quackery in»

As a healthful supplement I should like to recommend an earlier, polemical view of the major problem that confronts us in education: Albert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools, a neglected 1953 book whose title is not yet out of date.

[8] The AMA established a Committee on Quackery in 1963 to keep chiropractors from being included on medical insurance, or from becoming mainstream.

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Some such centers have gone independent, and a few are in or near the quackery line, simply exploiting the interest but neither meeting the standards of competence nor relating themselves appropriately to the church in an administrative sense.

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.»

Oh and Jerry... your «earned Ph.D. from an accredited institution» is clearly not in the sciences... LOL All those thousands of scientists who you claim believe in your young earth 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.

We are at the era of Charlatanism, Quackery & Delusion... Pure Religions are a good thing but Religious one's might be misguided to astray beyond the truth by swindlers into becoming as dark as it reflects; - Say, «O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way.»

In a world where Reichian quackery rules, we do not debate the limits of modesty for the simple reason that the very concept of modesty itself is illegitimate, a fundamentally oppressive notion.

He wrote in Learned Quackery Exposed:

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.

«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.

Similar mathematical quackery was used in the run - up to this year's general election.

Science in an Age of Delusions: some examples from scientific fraud, quackery, religion and university politics.

The Oyo State government in its bid to sanitise private health facilities and curb medical quackery across the 33 local government areas in the state said...

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.

«It could have been «quackery,»» he says, «but they didn't have a position in that.»

The extensive collection, which includes such creative quackery as «magic Oriental oils» or «miraculous snake root,» has been culled from all over the country, but it could well have originated here, since New Orleans in the early 19th century was a veritable cesspool of sickness.

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.

With doctorates in genetics and microbiology, Marchant is no fringe thinker advocating quackery.

By the time Old began his cancer research, in the 1950s, Coley's toxin had been relegated to the American Cancer Society's «black book» of suspected quackeries.

«Science writers need to take an active role in challenging quackery,» he said.

Side Trip Science Museum of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota When the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis closed in 2002, curator Bob McCoy donated his incredible collection of quackery to the science museum.

Physicians in traditional practices, however, viewed chelation therapy as quackery, since there truly was little science to support it.

At the same time, the openness did seem to be based in evidence and the conversation didn't descend into quackery, which led me to sign up and give it a try.»

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

You will notice that most medical and government health websites generally focus negatively on the topic of silver as quackery, in contrast to personal testimonies around the web which speak positively of individuals» use and experiences.

This produced a climate of warring practitioners and fostered «sectarian antagonism,» «internecine hatreds,» and «mutual hostility» in the medical profession, and led to the concerted dissemination of propaganda dismissing their healing modalities as «quackery» (McKeown, 1979).

There is a refreshing hint of irony about the ultimate standard - bearer for Reason placing himself at times beyond reality's reach, and even in his stable moments Darwin believed in «water cure» quackery to treat his feverish mystery illness.

And in his post Why Writers Must Beware Quackery, he does the unthinkable and forgoes his usual list - of - 25 format to fill you in on some major areas of deportment to remember when cavorting among the conferees.

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.

As written in Ampersand Gallery's press release about their last exhibition with Hall, «[his] finely detailed assemblages bring to mind the dioramas & curiosity cabinets of natural history museums, yet on a deeper level they allude to the ritualistic strangeness of reliquaries, thereby serving as an intersection where notions of religion, science, folklore & quackery collide with the artist's imagination.»

In the meantime, people's lives have been shortened and healthcare costs have been increased by trillions due to an unbelievable surge of chronic diseases tied directly to government diet nutrition quackery.

IN EUROPE, policy packages are like patent remedies: if they promise to cure one or two ills, they might be worth a try; if a dozen, suspect quackery.

If those reasons are sound, regardless of the validity or bogosity of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hokum, in what way could, should, or would your libertarianism prejudice you against this quackery?

When it comes to climate change, QTIIPS stands for, Quackery and Tautologous Ignorant Ideological Professional Sorcerery, which explains in part why the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect even exists...

In contrast, in the field of climate change quackery the usual methodology does away with such notions and typically involves a reliance on cherry pickinIn contrast, in the field of climate change quackery the usual methodology does away with such notions and typically involves a reliance on cherry pickinin the field of climate change quackery the usual methodology does away with such notions and typically involves a reliance on cherry picking.

Those in the latter will cling to an argument that sounds coherent, which is why scientific quackery is so prominent.