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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