That solidarity has now ended, poisoned by a cocktail of personal ambition and millenarian quackery.
The trouble with herbal medicines arises from a lack of reputable scientific study, a lot of quackery and a lack of Government regulations on the quality and claims of herbal preparations.
In a famous play by Goethe, the doctor is accused of practicing quackery.
Naturopathy mixes homeopathy, TCM, herbalism, diet woo, and just about every other form of quackery you can think of, mixing it into one homogenous pseudoscientific slurry of quacky badness.
"People are being hurt and even dying" because of false medical claims, he says: not quackery, but errors in medical research.
L.M. : no, because it's not pseudoscience. It's not quackery. These are real phenomena which deserve further study.
LaHaye's books have their share of quackery and pseudoscience, but that does not preclude some genuinely wise counsel to lovers--especially inexperienced ones.
Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.
To some people, herbal medicine is quackery.
