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Recent Examples of quackery
Stirring up antipathy is always going to be an occupational hazard for people who study misinformation, rumors, pseudoscience and quackery.
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F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Health The science of placebos is fueling quackery The placebo effect is real.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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
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F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Health The science of placebos is fueling quackery The placebo effect is real.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quackery
Noun
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As an escaped convict posing as a beloved preacher, and as his gentle, upright twin, Robeson embodies a devastating split between appearance and truth, and whose uncanny doubling plays out in a community shaped by racial violence, spiritual deception, and economic precarity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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Ellie, however, cannot abide Joel’s deception, and interrupts to tell the truth to Gail, who then slaps Joel and tells him to leave.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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This becomes fuel for a spiraling breakdown, for Taylor and for all the other women, full of DMs and text-thread images shown on-camera as evidence of various hypocrisies.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
Noun
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The entire texture of that life, its willed imposture.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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Body Double Long before the imposture of Anna Delvey, the Tichborne Claimaint swept a nation’s imagination.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 June 2024
Noun
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This is because an element of confusion or dishonesty could be present in your financial transactions.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 May 2025
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Final Thoughts The social stigma surrounding erectile dysfunction is a self-perpetuating cycle of unhealthiness and dishonesty.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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Lia Thomas stole a medal through deceit, and this rag has the gall to call him a 'champion'?—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Maeve doubles down on her deceit, lying to Conrad to cover her own ass.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 May 2025
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And some saw duplicity in Holden’s efforts since the councilman had fought so vigorously to restrict liquor licenses in South L.A. after the 1992 riots.—
Jaimie Ding,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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The publication, known for its close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, framed the talks as yet another round of predictable Western duplicity.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Quackery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quackery. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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