POLYGRAPH TESTS are popular with credulous hacks and cranky quacks.
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There was no licensing of doctors, so quacks were common.
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The quacks in Amir's direction might become too loud to ignore.
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He went after the charlatans and the quacks and so forth.
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Let's get it done before the lame duck quacks its last.
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The reunited family then waddled off after a few quacks of appreciation.
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"It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck," Mr. Johnson said.
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Interestingly, the quacks don't seem to suffer from this kind of scrutiny.
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There might be one or two duck quacks in there, not sure.
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Medical information passed more freely and quickly, diminishing the sway of quacks.
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If it looks like a global conglomerate, and quacks like a global conglomerate....
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Smallpox has seized Tibet, but Das finds only quacks to treat his fever.
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For Clinton, attacking Trump's doctor for being a quack is in keeping with her larger message, which is that Trump is a quack surrounded by quacks and, if elected, this group of quacks will start a nuclear war with France.
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The dog rabies whispererPhoto: GettyMedical quacks and charlatans are sadly a dime a dozen.
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So, well, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck…
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"If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck," Wyden said. Sen.
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How many lives must be lost before these quacks are actually taken to task?
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All these people—my friends, my family—they were all cleared by BiAnima's quacks.
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It's an advert by quacks and herbalists peddling eternal virility to aging Pakistani men.
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Jerry quacks, waddles, and occasionally poops on things while Balaskovitz shouts in the background.
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Then they go to a mixture of wacks and quacks—there are many ways.
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Sometimes that's because there are quacks or vested interests trying to spread lies and pseudoscience.
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Quacks thrive because public health care is so poor and private health care so poorly regulated.
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Its protagonist is John Romulus Brinkley, one of the preeminent American quacks of the twentieth century.
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They say that fosters salmonella and other disease, but "safety advocates" are usually industry-hired quacks.
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Critics have in the past blamed a lack of stringent criminal penalties that allow quacks to thrive.
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"It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck," Johnson told The New York Times on Tuesday.
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The submitter who finds chiropractors quacks seemed to hope one might relieve their joint pain, where the Mrs.
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Quacks do not keep records and are not able to spot, much less report, outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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IF IT walks, quacks and swims like a duck, the saying goes, then it probably is a duck.
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" He added "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
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A bunch of quacks with big Instagram followings began promoting the health benefits of "celery juice," Amanda Mull reports.
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The Sun's advertisers were snake-oil salesmen, literally; medical quacks who boiled rattlesnakes and bottled the skimmed-off froth.
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And politicians have applauded quacks from the psychiatrists' association talking of homosexuality as a sickness that can be cured.
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And while the company insists its software is "not a surveillance tool," it really looks, walks, and quacks like one.
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The field was filled with quacks, snake-oil salesmen and inexperienced apprentices who relied on whole-body "cures" like bloodletting.
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"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it should be regulated like a duck," he said.
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This was meant to bolster a physician's scientific credibility at a time when many practising healers were quacks, charlatans and frauds.
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But the secretary of state has a problem: If it has feathers, swims and quacks, then chances are it's a duck.
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If it walks like a duck, if it swims like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
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She warned that, so long as Facebook fails to act, quacks will continue to use the platform to exploit the desperate.
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If he looks like a right-wing apparatchik and quacks like a right-wing apparatchik, he's almost surely a right-wing apparatchik.
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So-called "conversion therapy," promoted by quacks and religious bigots, assumes that homosexuality is a medically treatable pathology, which it is not.
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"Generous donors are being ripped off and desperate patients and families are being exploited by charlatans, quacks and dubious providers," he said.
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Additionally, the duck can emulate the patients' mood though special RFID-enabled emoji cards and help comfort them with quacks, nuzzles and dancing.
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"If it walks like a czar, talks like a czar, quacks like a czar, it's a czar," one political scientist told BuzzFeed News.
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But crowdfunding sites, Marshall said, have an obligation to protect their users and the donating public from quacks who take advantage of this desperation.
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There are a whole host of other duck designs, should you be inclined to present your recipient with a full armada of cute quacks.
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"It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck," he told The New York Times, when asked if he thought Trump is a fascist.
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Sussing out the credentialed from the quacks, or whether an Ayurvedic practice will really help you more than a holistic health coach, can be daunting.
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Writing in the late 1700s, Voltaire viewed them as pseudo-scientists who claimed to believe in their ridiculous outdated remedies (such as using leeches to bleed sickness out of people), when the new medical science (and the constant, sad deaths of patients at the hands of their doctors) made it increasingly clear that those doctors were quacks—often well-meaning and trying their best, but quacks nevertheless.
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Peeps In the episode "Traffic Jam," Malcolm's older brother, Francis, makes a bet that results in him eating 100 Peeps (which he refers to as "Quacks").
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The profession was a calling for most (quacks have always been with us), and there was a reverence for doctors and nurses that served everyone well.
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Quacks—a common term, in India, for unqualified doctors—are a widespread issue in India, where the gaps between public health services can foster unregulated private clinics.
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"If it walks like a czar, talks like a czar, quacks like a czar, it's a czar," New York University political scientist Paul Light told BuzzFeed News.
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It is not an exaggeration to say that banning legal, medically assisted abortion — and forcing women back into the arms of quacks — will quite literally kill women.
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We are once again learning the old lesson that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably shouldn't get a SaaS multiple.
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Musharraf's dreams are as hopeless as the claims of the roadside quacks, but that doesn't stop him from coming up with elaborate plans to bring them about.
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Almost any other Democrat — including one named Generic Democrat — would also beat the man who runs an administration of kooks, quacks, criminals, drunks, wife beaters and grifters.
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Historically, this divide was created as physicians tried to distance themselves from quacks and con artists by building a rigorous system of accreditation and expertise, he argues.
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Many women - often poor and illiterate - are conned into surgeries by quacks masquerading as doctors or hospitals seeking compensation for treatment from the state's funds for the poor.
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Last month, a report found that online crowdfunding campaigns based in the UK frequently give money to medical quacks who claim they can cure otherwise untreatable cancer cases.
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The health-care commission acknowledges that unless decent treatment becomes more readily available, the quacks will continue to thrive, no matter how much energy is put into enforcement.
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This, she says, often leads them to risk their lives in back alleyways with uncertified providers or quacks, or take over-the-counter abortion pills with little guidance.
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"' He added, "Listen, if it quacks like a duck, if it looks like a duck, smells like a fish, it's a duck with a fish in its mouth.
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There's no need to guess, because now you can search for "animal noises" and you'll be presented with a panel that lets you hear roars, oinks, quacks and more.
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"Trump's rise to power has followed a similar trajectory to that of quacks who peddle panaceas to the desperate — a bizarre and heartbreaking world I've long studied," he writes.
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Soon, there were psychics and mind readers enlisted down at the Marine Division, all sorts of paranormal quacks to fill the void that normal procedures hadn't, or seemingly couldn't.
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The government department said quacks were peddling fake cures on social media, advising viewers to spread cow dung, sleep next to onions, and eat garlic to avoid the virus.
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" Stevens added that people typically associated "fake news" with politics but warned that "people's natural concern for their health … makes this particularly fertile ground for quacks, charlatans and cranks.
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"When it swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's hard to prove your intentions aren't fowl," wrote Paul Ashworth, chief United States economist with Capital Economics.
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Take a look back at some of the strangest science-related stories of this year, featuring everything from alleged meme-sparked poisonings to ludicrous medical quacks to unsettling parasitic infestations.
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Meanwhile, the Indian government has started training quacks in an official capacity, hoping to provide them with safe medical standards and mitigate the danger they inflict on an unsuspecting population.
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I've discussed how to cover quacks like Dr. Oz and the Food Babe, and how to navigate a medical world so filled with hooey it can make your head spin.
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From the start, their assertion of a new planet was met with some skepticism, since astronomers (and a few quacks) had been peddling the idea of a "Planet X" for years.
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" When asked if he thought Trump potentially obstructed justice, Wyden said, "I'll tell you, if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it just might be a duck.
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck (and the fellow actually shows up in the duck pond of the ExxonMobil case) it's time to call it a duck.
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Baidu Doctor offers patients information about doctors, including their credentials, to prevent them from seeing unlicensed doctors taking advantage of the high demand (quacks can still advertise, including on Baidu's search engine).
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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They weren't speaking — they were quacking at each other like frogs, the words undulating and indistinct, entire sentences merging into one long, mouthy sound, differentiated only by the pitch and rhythm of the quacks.
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"If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, you sort of assume it is a duck," a Labour lawmaker told duchy officials during a 2013 hearing.
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In the 221 book "This Will Make You Smarter," various household names remind readers, as if we were 73, that scientists do experiments, that we shouldn't trust quacks, and that we shouldn't generalize from anecdotes.
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"If one looks like a duck, walks like a duck, associates only with ducks and quacks like a duck, he is probably a duck," was how he explained his rule of thumb for identifying homosexuals.
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You could certainly be forgiven if the fact that it is, in fact, a party where guests are allowed, and even encouraged, to have sex gives you "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck" vibes.
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The only difference between them and Mussolini&aposs Black Shirts is that these guys call themselves anti- fascists, but they look like fascists and they act like fascists ... PIRRO: And looks like duck, quacks like a duck.
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DFID said harmful information circulating on social media and WhatsApp included quacks peddling fake cures for the coronavirus such as drinking bleach, rubbing mustard and garlic into the skin, spreading cow dung, and sleeping next to chopped onions.
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I heard about this tactic a while back from Ben Goldacre, a British author, physician, and longtime slayer of bad science, when I talked to him about how he decides which quacks to take down in his writing.
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CNN reported that former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli said that Kavanaugh "looks, walks, and quacks like John Roberts," referring to the chief justice who earned the ire of conservatives for his role in upholding the Affordable Care Act.
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Meanwhile, the party in the country is dominated by sandal-wearers and nature-cure quacks, who are willing to give the slippery Mr Corbyn the benefit of the doubt in return for the vague promise of a more just society.
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In 1937, a journalist named Grete De Francesco published a volume called "Die Macht des Charlatans," or "The Power of the Charlatan," a history of the quacks and mountebanks that roamed Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period.
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While researching malaria in India a few years ago, many rural Indians I spoke to told me they trusted these so-called quacks even more than government doctors because they gave out injections—which they deemed more effective—instead of just pills.
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And while the web makes it easy for a layman researching crystal therapy (where a "healer" places small crystals at various points on patients' bodies) to determine quickly that such a treatment has never been proved effective, it has also encouraged quacks.
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Mr. Helfand often said that for much of the period covered by his collection, legitimate doctors were about as likely to do someone harm as quacks were with their bogus cures; only in the latter 1800s did real medical science begin to evolve.
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" Scholten stopped short of outright calling King a white nationalist, but noted, "that we have to question a member of Congress, if they're a white nationalist or not ... if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
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On the one hand, anyone who tries to do what we're trying to do — assuming my arguments are correct and so we're really on the right side of the force and not just quacks — has to expect that it isn't going to be easy.
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GEORGE ORWELL wrote, a little wickedly, in "The Road to Wigan Pier" that the British left acts as an irresistible magnet to cranks of every variety: fruit-juice drinkers, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, "nature cure" quacks, and, a particular peeve of his, pacifists.
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Alone among the quacks and mountebanks at St. Saviour's, the dashing Dr. James Bain has an intrinsic sense of hygiene, but once he's poisoned there's no one to urge the surgeons to wash their hands or exchange their blood-stiffened frock coats for white gowns.
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IN A. DICKSON WRIGHT'S "Quacks Through the Ages", a study published in 33, the "outstanding quack of all times" was James Graham, an 18th-century Scottish doctor who conceived mystical cures for all sorts of ailments using fiery electric lamps, magnets and perfumes of the Orient.
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Many birders online took issue with the article's description of a fellow birder, David Barrett, who used a soft pretzel to try to coax the Mandarin to the shore and then, when that failed, chased him from one end of the pond with some convincing quacks.
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If it looks like a creep, and it quacks like a creep ... Trump's questionable business acumen aside, and his political chops still developing, I do agree with a lot of what he is saying about America … crumbling infrastructure, enfeebling political correctness, government waste and incompetence, immigration concerns, etc.
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Clyde was seen enjoying his own classic cars business in the location where Comrade Quacks (a popular bar that was destroyed due to one of Penn's bombs) used to be and the income inequality was more prevalent than ever with new beach properties worth millions and small businesses closed.
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But according to the majority of doctors and medical groups, there's no proof chronic Lyme disease is real, and they charge that the so-called "Lyme literate" doctors who diagnose and treat it with years of antibiotics and other unproven therapies are quacks, and that they're taking patients — and their wallets — for a ride.
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"We cannot allow Illinois to return to the days when women had so few options for reproductive care that they desperately resorted to back-alley quacks, poison, knitting needles, disappearing from public sight or suicide to deal with unwanted pregnancies," state senator Daniel Biss, a Democrat, said in a statement after the bill passed on Wednesday.
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America's public education system is in shambles and has been for ages; our commander in chief is spewing potentially deadly misinformation and floating the idea of relaxing social distancing by Easter; Fox News, the dominant cable news channel, downplayed the pandemic's seriousness; millions of Americans are influenced by quacks on Facebook who fear vaccines almost as much as they fear gluten.
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Like Bragadino, the 16th-century confidence man who used his command of alchemy to live for a while at the expense of the Venetian Republic, or like the more famous Cagliostro, the 18th-century "prince of quacks" who was a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Mr. Peterson is now finding favor with the great and the good — even among respectable gatekeepers of public opinion, including seasoned newspaper columnists.
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Look, you can apply tests to figure out whether somebody really is a contractor or not, and if it looks, walks, quacks like an employee then you need to have those people ... One of the complaints about the tech industry that they have said is that if they're not allowed to be this innovative and do these things and if they get guardrails, they're not going to be as innovative as China.
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