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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things. -- Thomas Carlyle
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery. -- John Ralston Saul
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. -- Henry David Thoreau
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. -- Timothy Noah
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. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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. -- Emmett Tyrrell

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