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Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion [1] of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". [2]
Rolfing (/ ˈ r ɔː l f ɪ ŋ, ˈ r ɒ l-/) [1] is a form of alternative medicine originally developed by Ida Rolf (1896–1979) as Structural Integration. [2] [3] Rolfing is marketed with unproven claims of various health benefits, [4] [5] is recognized as pseudoscience [6] and has been characterized as quackery.
Chromotherapy is regarded by health experts and historians as pseudoscience and quackery. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to a book published by the American Cancer Society , "available scientific evidence does not support claims that alternative uses of light or color therapy are effective in treating cancer or other illnesses". [ 5 ]
Homeopathic treatment with Arsenicum album is claimed as an "add on" to prevent COVID-19. [66] [medical citation needed] A person living in California marketed pills for curing coronavirus, although the contents of the pill were not made public. He was arrested for attempted fraud, which carries up to 20 years of prison. [67]
The practice has been dismissed as quackery by the medical profession. [50] Livingston-Wheeler Therapy – a therapeutic regime that included a restricted diet, various drugs, therapy and the use of enemas. According to the American Cancer Society, "available scientific evidence does not support claims that Livingston-Wheeler therapy was ...
The medical establishment had come to view Suboxone as the best hope for addicts like Patrick. Yet of the dozens of publicly funded treatment facilities throughout Kentucky, only a couple offer Suboxone, with most others driven instead by a philosophy of abstinence that condemns medical assistance as not true recovery.
Radioactive quackery is quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy , which is the scientifically sound use of radiation for the destruction of cells (usually cancer cells), quackery pseudo-scientifically promotes involving radioactive substances as a method of healing for cells and tissues .
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.