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Quackwatch is a United States–based website, self-described as a "network of people" [1] founded by Stephen Barrett, which aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere".
Francis Tumblety (c. 1833 – May 28, 1903) was an Irish-born American medical quack who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada. [1]
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker, in which the author examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past and present psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly antipsychotics.
The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, derived from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve" [3] or rather somebody who boasted about their salves, more commonly known as ointments. [4] In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares at markets by shouting to gain attention. [5]
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Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington Linda Laura Hazzard ( née Burfield ; December 18, 1867 – June 24, 1938), nicknamed the " Starvation Doctor ", [ 1 ] was an American quack , swindler , and convicted serial killer noted for her promotion of fasting , pummeling and hours-long enemas as treatments.
Orthomolecular psychiatry is the use of orthomolecular medicine for mental illness.Orthomolecular psychiatry has been rejected by evidence-based medicine and has been called quackery.
Pierre Kory is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID-19, as president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).