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Big-hitting American set to drive the Open wild 24 Nov 2005
...taught. He shuns coaches, dieticians, psychologists and much of the other quackery that dominates the tour, preferring things his way. ...
- The Age (subscription),
Don urges FG to enact law against quackery Nov 14, 2005
Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin Dr Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem has called on the Federal Government to enact a law that would make quackery a criminal ...
- Vanguard,
Quackery passing off as Naturopathy Oct 28, 2005
Kochi, Oct 28: Deploring the tendency of quackery being passed off for naturopathy to attract gullible tourists, Environmental activist and former Union ...
- Chennai Online,
Trust science, not quackery Nov 1, 2005
The survival of this fake controversy represents, in Consumers Union opinion, one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our generation.� (CR43:392 ...
- Tooele Transcript-Bulletin,
Maneka cautions against ''quackery, fadism'' in naturopathy Oct 29, 2005
Kochi: Deploring the degeneration of naturopathy into ''quackery and fadism'', MP and environment activist Maneka Gandhi has called for Indian practitioners to ...
- NewKerala.com,
When quackery kills Nov 4, 2005
...by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick. The tragic death of a five-year-old autistic boy in the USA this summer following mercury chelation - a ...
- Spiked,
HK stocks up on herbs to treat flu pandemic Nov 22, 2005
It's not a bunch of mumbo jumbo and quackery, the Chinese medicine practitioner says from his store-front clinic filled with earthy, musky smell of herbs and ...
- China Post,
Man who colonised Shakespeare Nov 18, 2005
I tell you, I couldn't believe it. I felt so much better.". I say it sounds like quackery and he says, "oh it sounds like quackery, but I tell you, it's not". ...
- New Zealand Herald,
Brief points - November 21, 2005 Nov 21, 2005
Scientists agree this simplistic methodology is without validity. No one's integrity should be judged based on such quackery. It ...
- Cape Argus (subscription),
Chowrasta Chatter Nov 21, 2005
There is a quality of quackery in what we have now. With time everything changes, and art particularly has to respond and change with the passage of time. ...
- The Statesman,
Well and Good : Spot a health and fitness quack Oct 31, 2005
...health. Quackery works because quacks appeal to our vanity. ... pill. Quackery has always been willing to cater to these desires.�. ...
- INQ7 Interactive, Inc.,
Clinic's embryonic stem cell therapy worries govt Nov 16, 2005
No proven medical therapy using embryonic stem cells is available," he said, though making it clear that while good work should be promoted quackery should not ...
- Rediff,
Row over doctor's 'miracle cures' Nov 17, 2005
...body is affected by the treatment, and western experts say that, potentially, she could be pushing an important therapy into the "realms of quackery", that her ...
- Guardian Unlimited,
Govt to formulate operational guidelines for stem cell research Nov 16, 2005
Setting up of system for actual treatment offering good work is required so that quackery could be avoided.'' He said though guidelines are there, more ...
- Webindia123,
Govt Keen To Propagate Stem Cell Research On Right Track Nov 17, 2005
To avoid quackery in the field of stem cell therapy, and propagate the stem cell research on right track, the Government has decided to work on improving the ...
- MedIndia,
MEDICAL RESEARCH GUIDELINES IN INDIA LEAVE DOCTORS FREE TO DO WHAT ... Nov 19, 2005
...have been a corrective mode, the health secretary made it clear that the government would work to see that “only good work proceeds and that quackery is not ...
- Calcutta Telegraph,
Needle in a Hayestack Nov 17, 2005
...war.". But, if Hayes is feeling abandoned, he can take some consolation in the fact that his quackery has been a good career move. ...
- New Republic,
Medicine swings back to nature Nov 19, 2005
...all over the world, including here, now allow private clients to claim against what a few years ago were described as form of quackery, traditional healers ...
- Sunday Independent (subscription),
BIG MED. QUACK FOUNDER LOSES Nov 19, 2005
...www.quackwatch.org , www.chirobase.org and 20 other web sites and has been a long time critic of chiropractic calling much of it “quackery.� The victory to ...
- Free Market News Network,
Funds Are Failing Us Nov 16, 2005
...moments. Anyone who refers to technical analysis as 'quackery,' as Swensen does at one point in his book, gets my thumbs-up.". Swensen ...
- Motley Fool UK,
The folks on Capitol Hill can sure put on a show Nov 10, 2005
All of which is nothing more than political quackery. After all, the first step to being a good corporate citizen is running a good company. ...
- Houston Chronicle,
Teen's cancer treatment draws focus to center Nov 10, 2005
Through its 30 years, the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning has had critics who say its work is quackery or close to it. ...
- Kansas.com,
Supplementing care State demand up Mixing things up Seeking ... Nov 13, 2005
But she also deems many mainstream and alternative practices as "quackery.". "The complementary medicine I prescribe is evidence-based," Richter says. ...
- Barre Montpelier Times Argus,
Denogean: Losing it? Now, you can get it back Nov 11, 2005
...met with a "quack, quack.". In other words, it was viewed as kooky, laughable, pseudo-medicine - quackery. Today, the concept of ...
- Tucson Citizen,
Virtue versus vice Nov 8, 2005
But the proliferation of diet material, in which it is nearly impossible to separate the quackery and faddishness from the common sense, puts the subject ...
- Times Online,
McQueen's Legacy of Laetrile Nov 14, 2005
...hoax. One doctor called the treatment "rank quackery." But others wanted to hear what McQueen and his new doctors had to say. At ...
- New York Times,
Health food store hosts vitamin advocate Nov 3, 2005
...traditional medical professionals warn that science doesn't always support Mindell's theories, and some go so far as to say those theories amount to quackery. ...
- Victoria Advocate,
'Fat Politics': Healthy skepticism on obesity Nov 4, 2005
Disney got our future half right: It missed the part about dangerous obesity surgeries, diet quackery and potentially deadly weight-loss drugs such as fen-phen ...
- Los Angeles Times,
Assessing emergent paradigm in journalism Oct 27, 2005
Apart from the fact quackery has reduced journalists to a bunch of nobodies it has also militated against the negotiation for higher wages by practitioners. ...
- The Tide,
Hemmingsen: Too Short To Write Long About Nov 3, 2005
I believe. Some regarded her methods of treating the paralyzing illness as medical quackery except for one thing; it worked. My ...
- KELOLAND TV,
Ghost guide lists places they may haunt Rhode Island Oct 28, 2005
...they're laid up in a hospital," Randi says. "This is an expense of quackery.". Though Belanger has previously spoken with Randi, he ...
- Providence Journal (subscription),
Bishop warns doctors against misconduct Nov 2, 2005
...result of doctors' mistakes. He condemned quackery in medical practice and also advised against self-medication. Ugorji urged doctors ...
- Daily Independent,
Time and the Anti-Fluoride Cause Oct 31, 2005
Consumer's Union put it well some years ago: "The survival of this fake controversy represents one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our ...
- American Council on Science and Health,
How to know what to believe Oct 27, 2005
Right across the board, we encountered very engaged audiences, hungry for information that might help to minimise the impact of scare stories and quackery. ...
- ResearchResearch,
Growing Up in Jesus Land Oct 27, 2005
...off the n-word taunts (and worse) at school and carefully sidestep their father's wrath at home, their mother methodically stuffs quackery Christian propaganda ...
- AlterNet,
Where Are Our Seers, Our Medicine Men and Women? Oct 28, 2005
Modern medicine has brought with it modern quackery, and we must be wary of the do-gooders who masquerade as bearers of old healings. ...
- AllAfrica.com,
Quacks make hay only till sun shines 03 Oct 2005
...find. The Reay Road scenario which is replicated on all Mumbai streets is only a pointer to the extent of 'quackery' in the city. ...
- Times of India
Stakes doubled to find CNY's biggest idiots 03 Oct 2005
...law, jerky, kung fu, lizards, losing stuff, mice, medication, navigation, naps at inopportune times, Oswego, parking, pet waste, quackery, radiation, rants ...
- Syracuse Post Standard
Speakout: State ignores naturopaths' 'quackery' Sep 18, 2005
...the ND for a profit, and more. There is a time-honored term for such practices: quackery. (a) Holding out oneself to the public ...
- Rocky Mountain News
Evolution: None Dare Call it Quackery! Sep 9, 2005
Don Boys, Ph.D. - Evolution is pure quackery and purveyors of this foolishness should be branded as quacks. ... But none dare call it quackery! ...
- The Conservative Voice
Evolution: None Dare Call it Quackery! Sep 7, 2005
Evolution is pure quackery and purveyors of this foolishness should be branded as quacks. ... In fact, he hasn’t even gargled. But none dare call it quackery! ...
- NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Homeopathy - natural remedies or quackery? Sep 7, 2005
...still believe homeopathy is “scientifically implausible�, a “pseudoscientific remnant from the age of alchemy� – in a word, quackery, despite its ...
- Independent Online
Quantum Quackery Sep 13, 2005
By Michael Shermer. In spring 2004 I appeared on KATU TV's AM Northwest in Portland, Ore., with the producers of an improbably named film, What the #$*! ...
- Scientific American
FDA Confuses Consumers by Allowing Dubious Health Claims on Foods ... Sep 29, 2005
...“The courts have made it clear that the First Amendment is not a license to practice quackery, but that is exactly what the Bush FDA policy sanctions.�. ...
- Consumer Affairs
REVIEW : Venomous Earth exposes poison power of arsenic Sep 25, 2005
Meharg describes the role played by arsenic in many facets of human livelihood, from quackery and alchemy to interior decoration and food coloring. ...
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription)
A Battle for the Ages Sep 26, 2005
...legitimacy.". Over the centuries, the quest to understand and alter the human aging process has been laced with quackery and pseudoscience. ...
- Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Medical community opposes curriculum change Sep 23, 2005
...to integrate modern system with Indian systems of medicine, but the medical fraternity criticised the integration proposal, saying it would 'promote quackery'. ...
- Rediff
Govt wants changes in medical syllabus; but docs oppose Sep 23, 2005
...medicine (ISM). However, the medical fraternity criticised the integration proposal saying it would “promote quackery�. Changes ...
- Financial Express
False dawn for AIDS activists Sep 27, 2005
Here his legacy has been to breed an atmosphere of denial, buck passing, intolerance, the absence of the will to lead, the propagation of quackery, secrecy and ...
- Business Day
Why Scientists Reject Intelligent Design Sep 27, 2005
...ought to be properly taught,� he said, “so people can understand what the debate is about.� How could the “education President� promote such quackery ...
- Newswise (press release)
Self-managed care comes to the coast Sep 28, 2005
...action. "People need to find out which sites are reputable on the computer and in the library so you're not preyed upon by quackery.". ...
- Newport News Times
Complimentary medicine Sep 4, 2005
...of homeopathy to be published by the World Health Organisation) in which Professor Ernst and a gynaecologist from the Dutch Union against Quackery are quoted ...
- Times Online
‘We don’t have skilled technicians’ Sep 1, 2005
Correspondent in his office at Aguda, Surulere, Eboh bares his mind on the raging issue of collapse of buildings, the rising wave of quackery in all the ...
- Daily Independent
Failures are not all in the mind Sep 19, 2005
It is up to the State Government to set the rules so that qualifications are vetted to ensure they are not - as they can be now - merely a veneer for quackery. ...
- Sydney Morning Herald (subscription)
Leading medical bodies in India have criticized the recent ... Sep 24, 2005
He added: "The move would also lead to an increase in quackery," The worry that doctors have is that it will 'dilute' the standards of medical education and ...
- MedIndia
Why Accreditation is Necessary, by CPN Boss Sep 22, 2005
...of the Council by the Minister for Education, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji in Lagos early in the week, Osofisan said accreditation became necessary to eliminate quackery. ...
- This Day (subscription)
Comprehensive Website on Hair Transplant Advice Launched Sep 22, 2005
With their personal quest to seek a cure for hair loss, many people choose the wrong path or run into deception, misinformation and quackery. ...
- I-Newswire.com (press release)
Experts savage oxygen booster Sep 24, 2005
...still be only 98%. Hamlin said it was "quackery" to suggest Oxy-Shot could improve performance. Andrew Kilding, senior lecturer ...
- Stuff.co.nz
Commerce sector needs statutory regulation - Expert Sep 24, 2005
On the invasion of quacks in professional practice, he said quackery was a very negative wind that is blowing and need to be cut. ...
- The Tide
'Natural Cures' book: Is it the truth or is it quackery? Sep 23, 2005
By Candice Choi. As he watched television one night about three months ago, Mike Hendry came across an infomercial for a book promising ...
- Indianapolis Star
Killer with a taste for genius Sep 16, 2005
We can weep at the carnage this disease inflicted among Europe’s literate, laugh at the quackery of the early cures, stand in awe at the brilliant ...
- Tillsonburg News
Mind-Body Problems Sep 19, 2005
They are as far from New Age quackery as they are from mainstream philosophy, commanding respect from cutting-edge researchers in developmental psychology and ...
- Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Net saves a life Sep 20, 2005
...simple, with treatments fairly well known.�. He offers two practical tips to guard against quackery. First, “Never seek or take ...
- Canton Repository (subscription)
Is Science the Proper Metaphor for Educational Research? Sep 18, 2005
...that there are three types of science: science, the borderlands of science (wherein most social science research resides), and nonscience or outright quackery. ...
- Black Enterprise
Evolutionary Icons Have Fallen! Sep 10, 2005
The evolutionist is like a blind man in a dark basement looking for a black cat that isn't there-and never was! So sad. But none dare call it quackery!
- The Conservative Voice
Q&A with Deepak Chopra Sep 9, 2005
What he touts as his "integration of the best of Western medicine with natural healing traditions," some critics have gone so far as to call quackery. ...
- Dallas Morning News (subscription)
God's escape clause vs. government disaster aid, plus evolution vs ... Sep 8, 2005
He’s an MD who has made millions promoting alternatives to medicine that many doctors denounce as quackery — but that those who believe in them say are ...
- Dallas Morning News (subscription)
NarConon Is Bad News for Customers Sep 7, 2005
But some "Church" critics allege that the procedures are rooted in scientific quackery and put dangerous pressures on the body through a combination of ...
- Pressbox.co.uk (press release)
Builders canvass sanctions for "due process" defaulters Sep 5, 2005
...structure was not adequate. It was quite evident that the act of quackery was being practised on that site". Mr. Chinwokwu opined ...
- Vanguard
Nothing medicinal about it? Sep 1, 2005
They are writing poetry without knowing the language. Homeopathy is no placebo or quackery. It requires a lot of diligence to be successfully practiced. ...
- Times of India
'Switch on the baloney detectors' Sep 2, 2005
...and irrational reaction by some readers of this column the moment the findings of science are weighed up against superstition, quackery, and irrational belief ...
- News24
Wallowing in the lies on which business is built Sep 11, 2005
A surprise bestseller, the petite volume offers a serious, though profoundly humorous, discussion of humbug, balderdash, claptrap, hokum, and quackery. ...
- Boston Globe
'Wickett's Remedy': Flu Season Sep 16, 2005
...outline a story that spans nearly a century and touches many subjects: an independent young woman's coming-of-age, the roots of quackery, the evolution of an ...
- New York Times
Think for Self Sep 6, 2005
Get past outward appearances. Quackery seldom looks outlandish. Promoters often use scientific terms and quote (or misquote) from medical references. ...
- Press-Enterprise (subscription)
Medicos protest against SC ruling Aug 30, 2005
NIMA) has demanded that doctors practising ayurveda, unani, siddha and the Indian system of medicine should not be included in the proposed anti-quackery bill. ...
- Pune Newsline
THE COUNTY SOCIETY AND THE ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT. Sep 13, 2005
...what has been done in some communities in stimulating the organization of the profession; what methods have been adopted for dealing with quackery and with the ...
- Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Detoxification Regime Dangerous Sep 6, 2005
To subject people to these potentially serious side effects on the pretense that they are being "detoxified", "cleared" or "purified" is quackery. ...
- Pressbox.co.uk (press release)
School to offer 3 days of free health classes Sep 15, 2005
...kicks off the event with his lecture about heart disease, Tampa Bay registered dietitian Clara Lawhead will follow with a discussion on "nutrition quackery.". ...
- Bradenton Herald
Not at all crooked on the Bent Spoon Sep 1, 2005
...recorded since the award was instigated in 1982, with citations that highlighted its "unwavering and uncritical commitment to the promotion of medical quackery ...
- Hobart Mercury
Water 'quackery' costs firmJul 26, 2005
...water. Judge Merelina Burnett said that promotional material for the units "contained inconsistencies, quackery and pseudo-science". ...
- New Zealand Herald
Water treatment quackery nets $136,00 fineJul 27, 2005
Judge Merilena Burnett said promotional material for the Living Water units “contained inconsistencies, quackery and pseudo-science.�. ...
- National Business Review
Living water 'quackery' results in $128,000 payoutJul 26, 2005
A Hamilton company has been fined $60,000 plus compensation and costs after selling drinking water treatment systems that did nothing at all to the water. ...
- Stuff.co.nz
Beware Internet "quackery"Jul 24, 2005
Researchers are warning of the dangers of Internet "quackery" and are urging the government to set up an improved health information website. ...
- NZ City
Avoid nutrition quackeryJul 10, 2005
...health. Getting reliable facts and information is the first line of defense in protecting yourself from nutrition quackery. Good ...
- Huntington Herald Dispatch
Quackery raises 'Big' moneyJul 3, 2005
By MARTIN FOX. Saturday's Big Brothers Big Sisters Duck Race at McGregor Park was a big success for the local organization, attracting ...
- Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Spermatomania—the English response to Lallemand's diseaseJul 29, 2005
...vested so much from empiricism and ignorance, seems disposed to yield up this, as if it were debatable land, to chance, philosophy, utter neglect or quackery'. ...
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Roberts gets thumbs upJul 27, 2005
...the feds to nationalize health care! Dr. Dean’s “national health care� prescription is quackery. Most of the problems in the ...
- Billings Outpost
A rash of speculation about KatieJul 25, 2005
...of toxins. Some took advantage of the free service - which made liberal use of niacin - but others dismissed it as quackery. The ...
- New York Daily News
The stomach for itJul 22, 2005
I looked six inches taller. But all this could still have been a methodical quackery. Pritikin is a business, after all, and wants to sell its product. ...
- Guardian Unlimited
Baptist ponders adding focus on alternative careJul 25, 2005
Can massage be used to treat incontinence? A few years ago, many doctors might have dismissed these questions as quackery or merely old wives' tales. ...
- MSNBC
Letters, and some replies, on “One hundred years since Einstein ...Jul 25, 2005
I much appreciated your scholarly exposition ... a far cry from the quantum quackery which disfigures recent pages of Nature. “... ...
- World Socialist Web Site
Allan Appel: Ask questions when you seek alternative therapyJul 25, 2005
By Allan Appel. The reputation of complementary and alternative medicine — known in the industry as CAM — has gone from quackery to legitimacy. ...
- Stuart News (subscription)
Looking at life by the numbersJul 23, 2005
The calculations "give the quackery an aura of both scientific and mystical authoritativeness," but in the end they amount to hokum, Carroll writes. ...
- Salt Lake Tribune
THE HEALTH CARE MESSJul 19, 2005
...into lobbying to accomplish the funding. Some may argue that there would be protection against quackery. The response is that it's ...
- Ether Zone
move to AJD when editedJul 15, 2005
Get a close-up look at how illnesses and ailments were treated in 1870s Kansas during Old Cowtown Museum's event called "Medicine, Quackery and Healing on the ...
- Kansas.com
Evans: The birds and the peaceJul 16, 2005
Summer is fairly quiet on the pond. But on any given day, I'm liable to spot a solitary pelican cruising the shallows or an unexpected quackery of ducks. ...
- Boulder Daily Camera (subscription)
Quack Bhais MBBSJul 3, 2005
According to Section 16 of the Medical Council of India Act, quackery is a punishable offence with rigorous imprisonment of a year. ...
- Expressindia.com
Herbs and hysteriaJul 1, 2005
...of longevity and health, revives in popularity, it is coming under fire from practitioners of modern allopathic medicine who accuse it of quackery and its ...
- Asia Times Online
Govt urged to work on cutting maternal mortalityJul 4, 2005
...the doorstep, proper spacing between births, awareness programs regarding antenatal care, new legislating and implementing laws against quackery, and improving ...
- Daily Times
Instead of pain pills, try hard workJul 5, 2005
They would think it's quackery," said Eve Kennedy-Spaien, clinical supervisor for outpatient pain services at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network in Medford. ...
- Boston Globe
Transsexual's 'quack' healingJul 4, 2005
..."It borders on quackery," says Dr Franco Colin, a Pretoria psychiatrist and one of few in the country to specialise in the area of transsexuality. ...
- News24
'Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research' a National ...Jul 13, 2005
...his own research and with practical experiences from over 30 years in the field, Blomberg calls the history of criminology reform to-date a "history of quackery ...
- Newswise
Injecting Politics into NJ's Needle Exchange ProgramsJul 1, 2005
In the interest of doing just that, they ought to put away their "umbrellas cause rain" quackery and embrace what sound science has to offer. 1 Lurie, et al. ...
- American Council on Science and Health
Fear and Irrationality in the OilpatchJul 11, 2005
...of imminent doom. But it should be seen as a form of quackery rather than dignified with the title of science. Its gross underestimation ...
- PESN
Wild DivineJul 7, 2005
...copper bracelets: "I thought it was witchcraft. It meets all of the criteria for quackery. It claims to work for everything and ...
- OpEdNews
The Diagnosis of Autism: An Expert Interview With Catherine Lord ...Jul 12, 2005
And it's hard to help parents sort out what is really worth trying to do even though there isn't good scientific data for it, vs what is really quackery and a ...
- Medscape (subscription)
Stroking toadsJul 12, 2005
It is suspicious of the very science that has made it so successful. And into this vacuum comes quackery, irrationality and fundamentalism of all sorts. ...
- Radio Polonia
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