Betray Quote by Henry David Thoreau

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even…

— James Morcan

When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.

— Carl Hart

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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…

— Edzard Ernst

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for…

— Thomas Sowell

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

— John Bradshaw

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.…

— H. L. Mencken

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people…

— Ben Goldacre

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for…

— Leo Tolstoy