quackery

[ kwak-uh-ree ]

/ ˈkwæk ə ri /

the practice or methods of a quack.

an instance of this.

Origin of quackery

First recorded in 1700–10; quack² + -ery

qu., qua, quaalude, quack, quack grass, quackery, quacksalver, quaco, quad, quad bike, quad cities

Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of Functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery.

Clinton Doc: This Is How We’ll Fix Health Care |Daniela Drake |June 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
For decades, “leaky gut syndrome” was passed off as quackery.

New Research Shows Poorly Understood “Leaky Gut Syndrome” Is Real, May Be the Cause of Several Diseases |Daniela Drake |March 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Yet no bishop, no theologian, durst oppose their quackery and their fraud.

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Volume 1) |J. H. Merle D'Aubign
There is no fun going on now-a-days—no quackery, no mountebankery, no asses, colonial or otherwise.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. |Various

Vegetation has been exhausted, and the bowels of the earth ransacked, to supply trash for this quackery.

The Seven Curses of London |James Greenwood
The meanest and most contemptible kind of cheating is quackery.

Practical Ethics |William DeWitt Hyde
In this world we are so jealous of any discovery being made, that innovation is immediately stigmatised as quackery.

Olla Podrida |Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

quackery

/ (ˈkwækərɪ) /

the activities or methods of a quack