So, after many years of religious selection pressure working against the pure-black cat, there was now the added pressure of medical quackery.

"The subcommittee is planning on holding new hearings sometime between July and September on medical quackery, and this will come up again," Ms. Jones says.

The American Medical Association stepped up its campaign against press publicity for medical quackery, and disciplined members who released accounts of research that had not been adequately checked by colleagues.

This chapter would not be complete without some mention of the occult areas of medical quackery.

Sanger, a proponent of diaphragms, was concerned that unrestricted access would result in ill-fitting diaphragms and would lead to medical quackery.

For thousands of years, there wasn't much of a difference between scientific medical practices and medical quackery.

"Personally, I think most organized religion is no different from medical quackery."

Dr. Fontaine, the psychologist, claimed that Bogardus was engaged in a form of medical quackery.

The American Medical Association has long been particularly critical, as indicated by a 1966 targeting of chiropractors described as a "national campaign against medical quackery."

Stephen Barrett founded Quackwatch and writes on medical quackery.