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Nothing quackish about it.

Reflecting Chinese medicine's desire to shed it's quackish image, the course will additionally look at ethics, law, research and Western Medicine.

With a quick change of hats, he can be a quackish doctor or a peacockish cantor or a Jewish Count Dracula.

There are certain codewords that warn that Here Be Pseudoscience, words like "neuro," "nano," or "quantum": the "quantum healing powers" of some quackish health fad, or the "nano-components" of an overpriced hi-fi set.

It remains to be seen whether the Atkins-school theory of ketosis, the metabolic process by which the body resorts to burning its own fat when starved of carbohydrates, will someday seem as quaintly quackish as Kellogg's theory of colonic autointoxication.