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A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception.
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 ]
The Charlatan, an 1895 book by Robert Williams Buchanan and Henry Murray; The Charlatan, a 1934 book by Sydney Horler; The Charlatan, a 2002 book by Derek Walcott; Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, a 2008 book by Pope Brock about John R. Brinkley
You abused your position – and you’re a charlatan who used, and is still using your prior position, to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again,” Barrett said.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Psychological pattern For other uses, see Impostor syndrome (disambiguation). Medical condition Impostor syndrome Other names Impostor phenomenon, impostorism Specialty Psychiatry Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological experience in which a ...
Clark Stanley's Snake Oil. Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam.Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. [1]
Pras Michél, a founding member of Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Fugees, is suing his bandmate Lauryn Hill in federal court for fraud and breach of contract, among other claims, over their ...
His reputation lingered for many decades after his death but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the "Quack of Quacks".