1.2 QUACKERY

• Quackery - A form of health fraud
• Quack - Person, group, or an organization who promotes different forms of health frauds.
• Types of Quackery:

  • Medical Quackery
  • Nutrition Quackery
  • Device Quackery
• Medical Quackery - Pertains to malpractices or fake and ineffective treatments and remedies.
• Nutrition Quackery - Involves the promotion of food fads, health products, and other nutritional practices that have questionable and unproven scientific basis.
• Device Quackery - Fake tools and devices that make people believe that they can actually treat diseases.
• Device Quackery - Quack endorses these devices
• Physical Harm - Herbal and Organic products may allergic reaction to patients.
• Physical Harm - Wrong diagnosis or medical malpractices may result in worsening of the disease or even death.
• Surgical Quackery - May result in lifetime disability or deformity
• Psychological Harm - Fake diagnosis makes one suffer from mental anguish of thinking that he/she has a disease.
• Psycholigcal Harm - Fake medication causes anxiety and distress due to uncertainty of the effectiveness and lack of assurance in terms of safety and effectiveness.
• Societal Harm - It can also harm the society when large amounts of people hold wrong beliefs about the best way to deal with health concerns.
• Societal Harm - Limited Resources can be wasted if funds are used to follow leads based on fake data.