Leaky gut appears to be yet another of the quackeries that started in the UK, that haven of ignorance about food, nutrition, and digestion, and was snapped up here in America by those looking to make a quick buck out of other peoples 'ills. ❋ Steve Carper (2008)
ORAC has been doggedly pursuing this issue for some time and keeps us up to date with his Academic Woo Aggregator which list the academic centers who have their fingers in the altie pie and there are more than one web sites devoted to the exposing of medical quackeries and woo. ❋ James Gaulte (2008)
But into what quackeries will not people rush for a last chance, where all accustomed means have failed, and the life of a beloved object is at stake? ❋ Unknown (2003)
All of the mysteries were represented, but it was up to the reader to discover which out of those thousands of volumes, held a kernel of truth, and which were out-and-out quackeries. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1985)
Very hard tooth-brushes are not advisable, and a simple tooth-powder of common chalk is safer and more effectual than any quackeries. ❋ Sarah Annie Frost (N/A)
Roman Catholic bishops may not be able to obtain political ascendancy over any more counties than those already subject to their sway; but we would call on him to pause and consider well before he disgusts the best friends of England, by lending attention to the unfounded statements of revolutionary priests, promulgated by mercenary writers; or the legislative quackeries of a disappointed, dishonest, and despicable faction. ❋ Various (N/A)
Innocent of London quackeries, I strolled forth with the full hope of laying me down on a velvet carpet of grass -- the birds carolling around me -- and, perchance, a flock of lambkins, tunefully baying to their mammas!! ❋ Various (N/A)
The very reverence it is held in -- the strong disinclination on the part of the public to question the accuracy of anything stated under the shadow of a Greek name, or to doubt the infallibility of the man who does it -- makes this kind of nomenclature the frequent protector of fallacies and quackeries. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
But it was geese, you know, who once saved the Capitol; and I must have my hiss at the iniquitous quackeries which people seek to perpetrate under the taking title of ❋ Various (N/A)
"And these quackeries do not," Grandmama finished her sentence to herself, not wishing to be discouraging. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)
Margoliouth dwells on this fact with some complacency, and goes on to contrast the scientific methods of the Hebrew doctors with the quackeries of the monks: ❋ Nesta H. Webster (1918)
He is intelligent, he is thoughtful, he is a sound artist -- but there come moments when a dead hand falls upon him, and he is once more the Indiana peasant, snuffing absurdly over imbecile sentimentalities, giving a grave ear to quackeries, snorting and eye-rolling with the best of them. ❋ Unknown (1918)
And how inexpressibly sad it was to hear him prattling on of the ideal life, of socialism, of Walt Whitman and what not, -- all the dear old quackeries, -- while I was already settling down comfortably to a conservative middle age. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
The fire was a very big one, and was burning up bigger things than such pedantic quackeries. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Enough, then, of this goose-cackle about Progress: Man, as he is, never will nor can add a cubit to his stature by any of its quackeries, political, scientific, educational, religious, or artistic. ❋ Unknown (1903)
But not content with antagonizing every sane movement for racial awakening, a spirit of aimless unrest has been insidiously sown among the freedmen through the hortatory quackeries of race demagogues and to such a degree that many yearn for a change in vocation ❋ Unknown (1901)
"Yes, you mean that if he didn't live in Kings Port (where we still have reverence, at any rate), he fit would imbibe all the shallow quackeries of the hour and resemble all the clever young donkeys of the minute." ❋ Owen Wister (1899)
Vannessia: The quackery has got to stop!
[Victorea]: I know, right! Have you guys seen the signs that have been popping up in local parks?
William: Dude, I have! They all give detailed info about why you shouldn't [feed the ducks]!
Bianca: Well, we should still go look at [the ducks] and hang out with them because they are just so cute and innocent.
Micheal: I totally agree, we will still hang out with the ducks. We just can't feed them. ❋ PineappleJuice (2015)
"Hey dude, have you heard about how if you [soak] your [eyeballs] in piss every morning, it gives you [20/20 vision]?"
"Nah man, that sounds like quackery to me!" ❋ CarolineButtle (2023)
Girl1:stop [spamming]
Girl2:your spamming too much
Me: I’m [not spamming] as much as you [fancy quackery] ❋ Hannah Bench (2020)
