How to Use quackery in a Sentence

quackery

noun

• His cure was nothing but quackery.
• It might even be cloaked in scrubs, like Dr. Oz – though chastised by the Senate for his quackery.
  — The Conversation, 5 July 2019
• And Finchem's quackery goes well beyond the Big Lie and its Arizona tendrils.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• The idea is a sort of Grand Unified Theory of anti-quackery.
  — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Jay will not seek any help and feels a counselor or psychologist is a bunch of quackery.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 2 June 2022
• The daily quackery has left the public tolerant as of a new TV series.
  — John Havelock, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
• Some health professionals worry that this opens the door to more quackery.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Next week: Alma Levant Hayden and the case of Krebiozen quackery.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2017
• Veterinary forensics can come off as quackery to people who are new to the concept.
  — Stefanie Marsh, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• Some of the resistance to taking the vaccine is driven by anti-vaxxer quackery that predates Covid.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• Anchorage was no more immune from medical quackery than any other town in Alaska or the rest of the country.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021
• And that same part of me wonders where the management of a baseball team gets off promoting what may well be camouflaged quackery to its players.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• In his campaign, Trump repeated his vaccine quackery and dismissed climate change as a fraud.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• These were paradoxical rivers, precious cold headwaters in the desert, the fish runs kept barely alive with billions in work-arounds and techno-quackery.
  — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• What look like dead giveaways of quackery for some go completely unnoticed.
  — Alan Levinovitz, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
• But Goldstein is serious about his work, and the film addresses the criticisms and accusations of quackery that have plagued him.
  — Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• That is a perfect distillation of populism and quackery.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 July 2022
• To many doctors, advocating a specific drug to cure a specific disease seemed the height of quackery.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
• Fat from the American rattlesnake isn’t so useful, but that didn’t stop entrepreneurs from rendering the fat, bottling it—and turning snake oil into a synonym for quackery.
  — Lloyd Minor, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Together, one supposes, the two tales add up to a lesson on the malleability of the human mind, especially if a bill of quackery is made convincing enough.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• There are many parallels between that pandemic and this one, with people fighting mask mandates and the quackery that was involved with people trying everything under the sun to try to take care of the disease.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2021
• Yet even in a world infected by epistemic uncertainty, not everyone falls for quackery.
  — Alan Levinovitz, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
• Saracoglu has a reputation for medical quackery, and his hope to breathe new life into dead material seems to verge on Dr. Frankenstein-style pseudoscience.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2019
• But such quackery also can be deadly dangerous, such as when many protesters, claiming divine inspiration, joined in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 July 2021
• Nearly all economists have rejected returning to the gold standard as economic quackery that would have dire consequences if put into practice.
  — al, 19 Jan. 2020
• The tally includes both conspiracy theories and quackery, such as Trump’s suggestion that the White House coronavirus task force explore the internal consumption by people of household cleaners, such as bleach.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Scientists and health experts have repeatedly denounced homeopathy as quackery and noted that any reported benefits are down to nothing more than the placebo effect.
  — Ars Technica, SELF, 2 Oct. 2017
• But his practice is neither a superhuman capability nor New Age quackery.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022

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