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Categories: Health fraud, Alternative medicine, Ignorance, Articles with short description, long volume value

quackery empiricism charlatan quack quack doctor

Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings WordNet 3.0

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Medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. Wikipedia

Fraudulent or inept medical practice involving untested or refuted treatments, promoted professionally or publicly Wikidata

Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments. OmegaWiki

Empirical method or practice. OmegaWiki

A practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; the method or practice of an empiric. Wiktionary

Practice of medicine founded on experience only. Wiktionary (translation)

The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. Wiktionary

Practice. Wiktionary (translation)

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

quackery, empiricism

Wikipedia

quackery

Wikidata

quackery

Wiktionary

empiricism, quackery

OmegaWiki

charlatan, empiricism, quack, quack doctor, quacksalver

Wikidata Alias

medical quackery