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- Dictionaryquack·er·y/ˈkwakərē/
noun
- 1. dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine: "a website dedicated to exposing medical quackery"
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Fraudulent or inept medical practice involving untested or refuted treatments, promoted professionally or publicly
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". Wikipedia