quackery

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for quackery
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Noun
  • Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece.
    Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Everything can be used as a tool for good and to build, or for bad and destruction and deception.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The question now is whether our ability to detect deception can evolve as fast as the tools that create it.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Salvat, a real estate agent who has branded himself an anti-establishment outsider, accused his rivals of hypocrisy.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Her hero, Vernon, is a fallen Gen-Xer trying to survive it all—and the book is critical of his generation’s hypocrisies.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The problem isn’t that my girlfriend wouldn’t get to go, but the disrespect and dishonesty of uninviting her out of the blue and trying to cover it up as being a genuine mistake.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, many of the investigations could not be pursued because his accusers did not sign formal complaints, and some complaints, including those that involved allegations of dishonesty, were not sustained by police oversight officials.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And with that comes deceit and manipulation.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The 2022 push for Measure B, which enabled this year’s approval of new city trash policies, was built on deceit about how much the fees would be.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To Serbian audiences, Vučiċ accuses the EU of duplicity and anti-Serbian prejudice.
    Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Stevenson’s pirates are a frighteningly murderous and totally untrustworthy bunch, thriving on threats and duplicity.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In an era of skepticism, audiences quickly detect insincerity.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And as the secretive Jack, Travis Van Winkle oozes oily, sexist insincerity.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Quackery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quackery. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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