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Recent Examples of quackery
The owner of the offending Bin Ladin-esque wall earned the money to build said wall thanks to an apparently successful series of books combining New Age quackery and extraterrestrial quackery.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
The coat’s origin occurred in the 19th century as the scientific method and thinking replaced some of the quackery and mysticism that was often used in the medical practice of the times.
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Stephen J. Forman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
Yet, this theory has continued for years—centuries, in fact—to give rise to a wide range of colonic quackery.
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Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
That is how CrossFit die-hards who dabble in Qanon quackery and blame wildfires on space lasers end up as the face of the House GOP.
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Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
The coat’s origin occurred in the 19th century as the scientific method and thinking replaced some of the quackery and mysticism that was often used in the medical practice of the times.
—
Stephen J. Forman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
Yet, this theory has continued for years—centuries, in fact—to give rise to a wide range of colonic quackery.
—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
That is how CrossFit die-hards who dabble in Qanon quackery and blame wildfires on space lasers end up as the face of the House GOP.
—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quackery
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The green-screen effects are knowing in their outright fakery; the nerdiness of the whole enterprise is lampshaded with a whole setpiece in a comic-book store.
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In that vacuum, fakery thrives.
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So, that's a kind of deception.
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The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
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These passages highlight the typically human cruelty and hypocrisy of fighting for one’s own liberty while denying it to one’s neighbors.
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Months after Louis and Schmeling’s first match, the Summer Olympics in Berlin offered another telling indictment of America’s hypocrisy, when Jesse Owens won four golds.
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Every college and university has rules against plagiarism and other forms of intellectual dishonesty.
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Among the grounds listed are fraud, embezzlement, theft, misappropriation of district resources, breach of fiduciary duty, neglect of duties, criminal convictions, violations of law, policy violations, dishonesty, insubordination and failure to perform contractual obligations.
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The original trial was found to be invalid due to fraud and deceit.
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And with that comes deceit and manipulation.
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Britain’s largest police force, on the other hand, is presented as the height of duplicity.
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Pakistan, for its part, accused Washington of its own duplicity, relying on Pakistan as a partner to fight terrorism, yet never fully backing the country in its conflicts with India.
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It was made that much worse when several cast members laughed at her insincerity and Maddi Reese interrupted it several times because there was a stray cat nearby that terrified her.
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Allen’s combo of flip insincerity and kindly concern is a terrific treat, recalling Bill Murray at his doofy best.
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“Quackery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quackery. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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