Definitions
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- noun Any system of treatment of physical ailments, or substances prescribed for such treatment, purported to be medical or supported by critical medical science but which cannot be shown to be effective
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's dreadful, of course, that there's a whole area of medicine (or pseudo-medicine, or anti-medicine) that isn't properly regulated, and which allows vain, insecure and possibly just not very bright people to subject their bodies to the equivalent of cowboy builders without apparently understanding that a body isn't quite as replaceable as a kitchen.
Christina Patterson: If Bigger Breasts are the Answer, What's the Question? 2010
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It's dreadful, of course, that there's a whole area of medicine (or pseudo-medicine, or anti-medicine) that isn't properly regulated, and which allows vain, insecure and possibly just not very bright people to subject their bodies to the equivalent of cowboy builders without apparently understanding that a body isn't quite as replaceable as a kitchen.
Christina Patterson: If Bigger Breasts Are the Answer, What's the Question? 2010
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It's dreadful, of course, that there's a whole area of medicine (or pseudo-medicine, or anti-medicine) that isn't properly regulated, and which allows vain, insecure and possibly just not very bright people to subject their bodies to the equivalent of cowboy builders without apparently understanding that a body isn't quite as replaceable as a kitchen.
Christina Patterson: If Bigger Breasts are the Answer, What's the Question? 2010
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Presumably settling does not mean that the book is withdrawn from sale, so the relevant information remains out there for all to read and freeing Simon’s time for further promotion of genuine science and perhaps more exposure of the dangers of pseudo-medicine.
What Should Simon Singh Do Next? Jack of Kent 2009
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