quackery

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
noun the dishonesty of a charlatan

From quack + -ery.

He had imagined a grisly, morbid thing of quackery. — Changeling, and Other Stories, Donn Byrne
Did you not see our quack friend apply to himself his own quackery? — The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, Herman Melville
Quackery is the native growth of the ingenious as well as the whimsical and hypochondriacal ideas of men. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

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