15 example sentences using quack.
Quack used in a sentence
Quack in a sentence as a noun
There are a lot of people who want you to think he's a quack, but he's not.
Might this have been for quack homeopathy junk, diet pills that don't work, vitamins?
If there is something you can "do" about it it's hardly "not your fault" now, is it?He's not a quack.
I didn't know about him, and I don't mean to talk ill of the dead, but from a quick google it would seem he's mostly just a dietary quack?
The difference is that all you have to do to avoid the "quack" label today is produce evidence that your treatment works.
Quack in a sentence as a verb
Eben Byers was a victim of quack medicine, much like people nowadays who try to use magnets and sugar water to cure cancer.
The moment you read toxins and detox in any article for mass consumption - stop bother reading further - the author is at best a quack.
By extension, a snake oil salesman is someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is himself or herself a fraud, quack, charlatan, and the like.
During this episode, I saw such non-scientific quack-like behavior that I pretty much lost faith in most of the modern Medical Industrial Complex.
Oh noes!The entire thrust of our medical regulatory system, from the Flexner Report to today, is the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery.
Quack in a sentence as an adjective
Max Gerson believed that cancer was a result of an individual lacking production of "cancer digesting" pancreatic enzymes - aka he was a complete quack.
But if a "doctor" says vaccines are bad because they cause autism, and when proven wrong, invents another argument against vaccines, I write him off as a quack who doesn't follow the scientific method.
For that matter if he's a quack in his latest book for suggesting that the science of endocrinology should be taken seriously on the topic of how fat works, then the entire science of endocrinology is quackery.
Before the trial starts, both sides challenge the qualifications of the other side's damages expert, trying to convince the court he's a quack and the court should throw out his report and make the other side offer a reasonable damage theory.
The article treats the belief in supplements entirely as a case of well-nourished people pursuing quack fixes, ignoring scientifically credible practices such as food fortification using iodine and folic acid, the widely-known connection between vitamin C and scurvy, the use of iron supplements to treat anemia, and the historical experience with real malnutrition.
Quack definitions
an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
the harsh sound of a duck
utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
act as a medical quack or a charlatan
medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"