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quackery

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quackery /ˈkwak(ə)rē, ˈkwæk(ə)ri

▸ noun dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine:

a website dedicated to exposing medical quackery

[count noun] the belief that these quackeries actually work.