Best Quackery Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Poichè il destino e gli eventi li avevano tenuti per tanto tempo separati, occorrevva che qualche cosa di lieve e come indifferente corresse avanti ad aprire le porte dell'anima a parole più gravi, suggerite da più gravi pensieri.”

Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous

“Every quack is, indeed, a demagogue; and relies, for his success on nearly the same arts, with his political and religious, or rather irreligious, brethren.”

Medicine Pseudoscience Homeopathy Physician Quackery Pseudoscientific Naturopathy Quack Remedies Chiropract

Book:The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1841, Vol. 4

Source: The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1841, Vol. 4

“the average American was as gullible as a wide-mouthed shad”

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Book:Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

Source: Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

“Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.”

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Author:James Morcan

“I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.”

Knows Answers Accepting Approach Scientist Medical Cards Quackery

Author:Dean Ornish

“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”

Certain Air Charity Philanthropy Quackery

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.”

Valuable Protection Pessimism Quackery

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”

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Book:THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD

Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD

“Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.”

Gone Successful Century Hero Shapes Slave Boundaries Empires Portions Reign Nineteenth Century Quacks Quackery

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.”

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Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”

Thinking Littles Pieces Please Truth Is Esteem Deceiving Hype Quackery

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.”

Believe Whole Challenges Fool Demand Disease Evidence Treats Claims Patient Alternatives Labels Paradise Protected Quackery

Author:Edzard Ernst

“Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.”

Giving Birth All Things Quackery

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.”

Way Heart Kind Art Two Light Science Fists Quackery

Book:The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance

Source: The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance

“There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”

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Author:Raymond Chandler

“The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.”

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Author:James J. Kilpatrick

“In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.”

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Author:Jane Brody

“Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.”

Life Inspirational Silence Inspirational Life Eternal Mathematics Supreme Confusion Certainty Contradiction Quackery

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks