Word: quack
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Stare built his career attacking quack diets and health food advocates on television and radio and in his nationally syndicated newspaper column, “Food and Your Health.” He argued that potentially harmful foods, such as those containing caffeine, could be beneficial when consumed in moderation...
...starting to walk like a municipal duck, and quack like a municipal duck," said Assemblyman Bill Leonard (R-San Bernadino) of the emerging consensus. "And eventually, it becomes a municipal power authority...
...first clue is the "200C" on the label. What this means is that whatever active ingredient Oscillococcinum began with--in this case, duck heart and liver (no quack jokes, please)--has been diluted beyond all imagining. First, one part of the active ingredient is combined with a hundred parts of solvent. Next, the mixture is shaken and diluted again at one part per hundred--a process that is repeated a total of 200 times. Finally, sugar granules soaked in the resulting solution are enclosed in six capsules a box, good for two days of treatment...
...past few months have seen the launch of five voice portals: Audiopoint, BeVocal, TelSurf, Quack and Tellme. Tellme, which got the highest rating from PC Magazine, launched last week. Since the services are similar, I tested just the Top 3: Audiopoint, BeVocal and Tellme...
...good doctor's theory that the immensely popular Prozac-Zoloft-Paxil family could be dangerous not only in the short term (think homicidal and suicidal tendencies) but also down the road (think brain damage). Granted, Glenmullen has been dismissed by many of his fellow psychiatrists as an alarmist quack, but I think he's still got some explaining to do. I would like to know why anyone would feel the need to scare the living daylights out of an entire country where one would be hard-pressed to locate a single citizen who doesn't know someone taking...