quackery

fraudulent or inept medical practice involving untested or refuted treatments, promoted professionally or publicly
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quackery

Summary

quackery ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (699 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • quackery's GND ID is recorded as 4166213-1[2].
  • quackery's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85109407[3].
  • quackery's subclass of is recorded as scam[4].
  • quackery's subclass of is recorded as health care fraud[5].
  • quackery's Commons category is recorded as Quackery[6].
  • quackery's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D011781[7].
  • quackery's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01f54x[8].
  • quackery's MeSH tree code is recorded as I01.880.735.728[9].
  • quackery's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Health fraud[10].
  • quackery's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1347717[11].
  • quackery's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • quackery's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • quackery's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[14].
  • quackery's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/quackery[15].
  • quackery's contributing factor of is recorded as abuse[16].
  • quackery's contributing factor of is recorded as delayed diagnosis[17].
  • quackery's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0034370[18].
  • quackery's practiced by is recorded as charlatan[19].
  • quackery's Quora topic ID is recorded as Quackery[20].
  • quackery's Quora topic ID is recorded as Health-Scam[21].
  • quackery's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as medical-fraud[22].
  • quackery's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as kvakksalver[23].
  • quackery's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as ciarlataneria[24].
  • quackery's Handbook of Texas ID is recorded as smm04[25].
  • quackery's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776514596[26].

Why It Matters

quackery ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (699 views/month).[1] quackery has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] quackery is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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