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Recent Examples of quackery
Yet medical quackery continues to exist in various forms, and the spread of misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic is among the most timely and notable examples.
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Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.
—F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Health The science of placebos is fueling quackery The placebo effect is real.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.
—F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Health The science of placebos is fueling quackery The placebo effect is real.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quackery
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This deception couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s debt.—
Thomas Kahn,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Unlike earlier studies that uncovered evasion or deception, this research exposed a more alarming phenomenon: models calculating that unethical behavior was a justifiable strategy for survival.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Douglass’s moral indictment against American hypocrisy resonated far beyond its historical moment.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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She is principled, willing to speak truth to power, and uses her years of experience in the publishing industry to highlight its absurdities and hypocrisies while also celebrating the work of so many of its workers.—
Literary Hub
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Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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The entire texture of that life, its willed imposture.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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Body Double Long before the imposture of Anna Delvey, the Tichborne Claimaint swept a nation’s imagination.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 June 2024
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Blurring The Lines Of Academic Integrity As AI tools become more accessible, the boundary between acceptable support and academic dishonesty is increasingly unclear.—
Ulrich Boser,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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But their mixture of love, dishonesty, competition and aggression may also remind viewers of two other sets of brothers: Jacob and Esau, and Cain and Abel.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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In the 21st century, varying degrees of financial deceit — from the Enron accounting scandal to the devastating consequences of massive Ponzi schemes like the one run by Bernie Madoff — continue to impact people across the country.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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Every fraudulent claim becomes part of the data used to set next year’s rates, creating a feedback loop where today’s deceit has the potential to become tomorrow’s financial burden.—
Paulina Wierzbicka,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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No, the movies in the novel are real, the suffering is real, the evasions and duplicities are real.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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That yearning involves no duplicity or threats to others.—
Jay Tcath,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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“Quackery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quackery. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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