Quackery
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This year, we Americans will spend billions of dollars on products that do
nothing for us - or may even harm us. And we'll do it for the same reason people
have done it since ancient times... We want to believe in miracles. We want to
find simple solutions and shortcuts to better health. It's hard ....
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.... of course. In fact,
the vast majority aren't .So just what is quackery? Simply put, quackery is the
promotion of a medical remedy that doesn't work or hasn't been proven to work.
In modern times, quackery is known as health fraud. But call it quackery or call
it health fraud, the result is the same - unfulfilled wishes, wasted dollars,
endangered health. Often quack products are fairly easy to spot, like the magic
pills you are supposed to take to stay forever young. But sometimes the products
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