Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will spend $890 million in 1961 on medical research-and even as it does so, the U.S. public will spend $1 billion for quack remedies and gadgets and dietary health fads. By best estimates, $350 million will go for vitamin supplements, mostly self-prescribed and not needed, and $150 million for equally unnecessary laxatives. While the nation's medical centers spend $111 million seeking causes and cures for cancer, the public will shoot $50 million for quack cancer remedies. With arthritis and rheumatism the comparison is still worse: $6,500,000 for legitimate research, but $250 million wasted...
...Impoundment of quack remedies offered through the mails. Postmaster General J. Edward Day said he was planning to use this attack on a medical fraud when he is confident his case is so strong that the courts will uphold...
...part, the medical profession itself has to shoulder some of the blame. Licensed M.D.s have written recent books promoting quack remedies. Several M.D.s were among the promoters of the seawater panaceas. And, Commissioner Larrick pointed out, there is always "the professional research quack-the M.D. who specializes in arranging for 'tailored studies' " of questionable cures-in a word, "rigged research...
Snake Slaughter. Though nostrums and quack cures have always been around, they got their big boost in the U.S., says Carson, from the Civil War. The men under arms learned to seek relief in an assortment of pain-killing potions, most of which contained opiates, alcohol or both. Such strong ingredients could kill pain, and that touch of veracity built credibility for a thousand other claims...
...Quack? In Hidalgo, second county upriver from the Gulf, health authorities got state help for a four-year study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place...