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QUACKERY
quackery, empiricism
(noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
charlatanism, quackery
(noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)
(legal, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Source: Wiktionary
Quack"er*y, n.; pl. Quackeries (.
Definition: The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNINFORMATIVELY
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”
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