How to Use quackery in a Sentence

quackery

noun
  • His cure was nothing but quackery.
  • People have a right to be protected from quackery.
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Jay will not seek any help and feels a counselor or psychologist is a bunch of quackery.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 2 June 2022
  • Some health professionals worry that this opens the door to more quackery.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Veterinary forensics can come off as quackery to people who are new to the concept.
    — Stefanie Marsh, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
  • What look like dead giveaways of quackery for some go completely unnoticed.
    — Alan Levinovitz, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • The daily quackery has left the public tolerant as of a new TV series.
    — John Havelock, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And Finchem's quackery goes well beyond the Big Lie and its Arizona tendrils.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
  • These are all medical quackery, nothing a doctor would recommend.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2019
  • Some of the resistance to taking the vaccine is driven by anti-vaxxer quackery that predates Covid.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 8 Dec. 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
  • Yet even in a world infected by epistemic uncertainty, not everyone falls for quackery.
    — Alan Levinovitz, Slate Magazine, 23 Jan. 2017
  • To many doctors, advocating a specific drug to cure a specific disease seemed the height of quackery.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
  • Someone needs to save the American people from the quackery of the health and human services secretary.
    — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Trump’s presidential endorsement was apparent proof of rank quackery.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Part of it is that the history of this field, both scientifically and technologically, has really been plagued by the shadow of quackery.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • But his practice is neither a superhuman capability nor New Age quackery.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Once disparaged as borderline quackery, the total ankle replacement is gaining acceptance as a treatment for crippling arthritis and serious injuries.
    — Eric Pianin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
  • With doctorates in genetics and microbiology, Marchant is no fringe thinker advocating quackery.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
  • As such advertisements suggest, vibrators were not standard medical treatments, but medical quackery, alternative medicine that didn’t deliver on their promises.
    — Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
  • In developed countries, leech applications are often, and perhaps unfairly, associated with quackery, like the once popular practice of bleeding patients.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • And, according to modern scholars, L’Orvietan’s curative claims probably weren’t just pre-Enlightenment quackery.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023

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