Quackery???

What is Quackery??
What are the possible effects of quack medicine???

"Quackery" derives from the word quacksalver (someone who boasts about his salves). Dictionaries define quack as "a pretender to medical skill; a charlatan" and "one who talks pretentiously without sound knowledge of the subject discussed." These definitions suggest that the promotion of quackery involves deliberate deception, but many promoters sincerely believe in what they are doing. The FDA defines health fraud as "the promotion, for profit, of a medical remedy known to be false or unproven." This also can cause confusion because in ordinary usage -- and in the courts -- the word "fraud" connotes deliberate deception. Quackery's paramount characteristic is promotion ("Quacks quack!") rather than fraud, greed, or misinformation."

possible side effects could be as extreme as death (a lot of women died from the miracle breast cancer cure a while back and all it was doing was giving them arsenic poisoning) or as little as wasted time and money

Quackery is what 98% of all general practitioners practice.

It is well known that if there are no prescription drugs for an ailmen,t GP's will not even try to diagnose it.

Keep them coming through the turnstyles medicine is not an illusion. It is widely practised and fact.