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	Quackery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quack medicines often had little in the way of active ingredients, or had ingredients which made a person feel good, such as what came to be known as recreational drugs.
		Widely marketed quack medicines (as opposed to locally produced and locally used remedies), often referred to as Patent medicines, first came to prominence in Britain and the British colonies, including North America, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		The quacks who sold them were called "snake oil peddlers", and usually sold their medicines with a fervent pitch similar to a fire and brimstone religious sermon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quackery (2230 words)

	Characterization of Quack Theories
		A quack will often reply that his ideas have evidence, just not the kind accepted by "science." The problem with this is that science is no more and no less than sum total of what we have learned about evaluating general empirical claims and their evidence.
		Quacks want to find some room in between, but they cannot explain why we should accept the kind of evidence in their case that has proven so bad in other cases.
		Quack theorists often distort the rest of science is in order to make their favored notions seem more equal in comparison.
	quasar.as.utexas.edu /BillInfo/Quack.html (2969 words)

	QUACK - LoveToKnow Article on QUACK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The word is a shortened form of " quacksalver " (Du.
		kwaksalver), in which form it is common in the I7th century, "salver" meaning " healer," while " quack " (Du.
		practitioner a " quack " is actionable per se without proof 01 special damage (Alien v.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Q/QU/QUACK.htm (96 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is it true a duck's quack won't echo?
		However, a duck and three quacking humans is not the sort of scene that fades readily into the woodwork.
		The duck quacked in the cage, which was useless for our purposes, but when we took him out he was mute.
		According to a BBC report, "[Cox] says the way a duck quacks, with a long 'aaaacckkk' on the end of the call, tends to mask any echoes that are produced." Could be, Trev.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_071.html (782 words)

	Ask the Quack!
		This exercise is meant to simulate the advertising industry in the eighteenth century, where quacks competed fiercely to capture the public with the power of the written word.
		Despite the irrationality of seeing a quack as opposed to a respectable doctor, there was a significant rationale for many turning to the quacks.
		Quacks often offered the "no cure, no money" guarantee, the equivalent of our modern "money-back guarantee." Unfortunately for the dissatisfied, getting one's money back often involved writing a glowing testimonial for the product, which meant including personal information such as name and address (6).
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/advertising/quackmiddle.html (1015 words)

	Collect Medical Antiques -- Quack medicine
		The battery powered Electraply is another very common quack device of the early 20th century and is important in the history of medical quackery in that its sale finally resulted in legislation directed toward standardizing the safety and efficacy of similar instruments.
		Large quack devices were manufactured when indirect current became available in homes and hospitals.
		MEDICINE: Perspectives in History and Art The history of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and quack medicine is told by physicians, patients, nurses, writers, poets, artists, and many others through their quotes, letters, and art.
	www.collectmedicalantiques.com /quack3.html (905 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Critter Country (Ducking the Question)
		The premise is just silly: a duck's quack (and presumably, of all the sounds known to man, only a duck's quack) has some special sonic property that causes it not to echo.
		She was then moved to a reverberation chamber with cathedral-like acoustics before the data was used to create simulations of Daisy performing at the Royal Albert Hall and quacking as she flew past a cliff face.
		He said ducks were normally found in open-water areas and didn't usually congregate around echoey cliffs, which may have fueled the theory that their quacks don't produce an echo.
	www.snopes.com /critters/wild/duckecho.htm (744 words)

	QUACK - Online Information article about QUACK
		QUACK, one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a See also:
		definition of a " quack " is " a boastful pretender to medical skill," but a " quack " may have See also:
		great skill, and it is the claim to cure by remedies which he knows have no efficacy which makes him a " quack " (see Dakhyl v.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/QUACK.html (271 words)

	ExQuack
		Quack, Quack, Quack, on view at the Grolier Club from September 18th to November 23rd 2002, showcases the often flamboyant sellers of nostrums and patent medicines over the course of four centuries, through visual, often entertaining, material.
		These range from the ways of itinerant quacks, their use of various extravagant marketing techniques, the frequent bitter rivalry between sellers of panaceas, each with his or her own theory supported by dubious claims of efficacy; to quacks in the arts and, finally, to the first governmental restrictions on the more flagrant abuses.
		Altogether, Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books comprises 185 items, all drawn from the collection of William H. Helfand, who has curated the exhibition.
	www.grolierclub.org /exquack.htm (420 words)

	quack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Quack is a headless gnutella server, intended to be run unattended (i.e.
		Quack allows an external index file to be used in addition to matches on the filenames.
		Quack is written in python, and should run on any platform supporting python, sockets, and select.
	quack.sourceforge.net (90 words)

	The duck's quack echo myth, Salford University
		Recently, Salford Acoustics was the source of the story being presented in the national and international media when we proved that a duck's quack does echo as part of the British Association Festival of Science.
		Consequently, a duck's quack does echo, but in many circumstances will be hard to hear.
		The quack does echo, but it is usually too quiet to hear.
	www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk /acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm (620 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Sound science is quackers
		He says the way a duck quacks, with a long "aaaacckkk" on the end of the call, tends to mask any echoes that are produced.
		It might seem a bit bizarre that scientists should go to all the trouble of investigating quacking ducks, but Professor Cox is an expert in controlling echoes.
		"Because the duck's quack is rather quiet anyway and the echo comes on the back of a fading sound field, it is as if the echo is being masked.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3086890.stm (551 words)

	Quack, Quack, Quack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The earliest quacks, we see, dressed elaborately, inflated their credentials, and embraced an extravagant vocabulary to market their panaceas, at times claiming their pills and salves would cure all disease.
		And though recent strides in medicine mean that most people avoid quacks, and efforts have been made to rid society of patent-medicine makers, the quack survives to the present day, promising to make us all thinner, better-looking, healthier, or more sexually potent.
		Quack, Quack, Quack visits the Philadelphia Museum of Art March 19 - June 26, 2005.
	store.philamuseumstore.org /40089.html (269 words)

	Quack Sound Effect Generator Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		For more information on Quack, including samples and discusion forums, please visit QuackForum.com.
		QUACK Sound Effects Studio lets you create your own original sound effects with an easy to use visual editor.
		As with all QUACK components, you can use the output of one component to control another - for example you can use a slow oscillator to add vibrato to a second oscillator.
	www.morello.co.uk /quack.htm (227 words)

	Benny Kramek - Quack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Quack game is a polished tetris clone featuring nice graphics, music and sound.
		That's easy - a cute little duck watches you play and quacks whenever you clear a line.
		I never was a really big fan of tetris, so I'm not sure why I decided to create this.
	benny.kramekweb.com /quack (57 words)

	"Quack Pack" (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The best thing about Quack Pack, in my opinion, is how they write the main characters' personalities.
		Quack Pack's WORST points are that it's rather silly, and often the plots make little or no sense, stuff just basically...happens.
		Between the intellectual humour, the boys' obvious lusting after any female who crosses their paths, Donald's very real parenting concerns, and some (implied) rather nasty violence occasionally, this show has an...-edge- to it, a bite, that's unusual for a "children's cartoon".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0136658 (666 words)

	Amazon.com: Little Quack: Books: Lauren Thompson,Derek Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Widdle, Waddle, Piddle, Puddle and Little Quack are perfectly content to remain in the nest and view the pond from afar.
		Little Quack is a delightful, interactive, preschool crowd pleaser that's sure to become an often requested, instant favorite both at school and at home.
		Little Quack tells the story of five little ducklings, and a mother duck who is teaching them to swim.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689847238?v=glance (1359 words)

	quack grass on Encyclopedia.com
		QUACK GRASS [quack grass] or couch grass, Old World perennial grass (Agropyron repens), now widely distributed and in the United States a troublesome weed.
		Quacks and greenbacks: Ducks still flying high.(The Seattle Times)
		Quack shot: `home of the friendliest people and the annual coon supper' says a sign entering Gillett, Ark., the duck-hunting capital of the world.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/q1/quackgra.asp (313 words)

	Quack, Quack, Quack - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
		Visitors look at prints which are part of the new exhibit 'Quack, Quack, Quack' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tuesday, March 22, 2005.
		The exhibit features prints, posters and pamphlets by accomplished artists who created advertisements for elixirs and gadgets that were central to medical quackery.
		Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books runs through June 26 at the Berman Gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
	www.medgadget.com /archives/2005/03/quack_quack_qua.html (166 words)

	split-s: Quack, quack
		If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.
		Thus the saying "if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck" or as it is commonly called, Duck typing.
		It must be noted, however, that while Ruby has classes, objects are not explicitly declared of to have a certain type.
	split-s.blogspot.com /2005/02/quack-quack.html (662 words)

	The Quack-Files: Tourists in Altmedland
		The usual mishmash of diseases that quacks have claimed to treat for centuries: “has been used successfully for cancer, tumors, herpes, diabetes, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, allergies, viral diseases, yeast and fungal infections, parasites, Lupus, moles, liver detox, vaginitis, worms and skin cancer.
		Also used as a powerful preventative remedy and detoxifier”The two conditions that are honored with capitalization are 20th century diagnoses, but the rest are old, reliable human complaints.
		I know that it is unlikely I will affect the true believer or the knowing scammer, and I know their arguments as well as they themselves.
	www.geocities.com /healthbase/tourists.html (4251 words)

	MOLECULAR KINETICS AND SPECTROSCOPY
		The group "Molecular Kinetics and Spectroscopy" of Martin Quack at ETH has as main research theme the understanding of fundamental, physical-chemical molecular primary processes.
		This approach has shown that intramolecular rate processes of vibrational redistribution are often governed by specific properties of functional groups and thus can be transferred from one molecule to another.
		M. Quack, chapter 27 in: "Femtosecond Chemistry", J. Manz and L. Woeste eds., Proc.
	www.ir.ethz.ch /research.htm (1597 words)

	Are you a quack?
		The fact is that these theories are not only well confirmed by experiment, but practical use is made of them every single day.
		Note: You will not dispell a quack's distaste for modern physics by relating it to classical physics, since they usually do not understand that either.
		Thus, if you try to explain to a quack the actual physics at even high school level, he will immediately claim that you are the one who is ignorant.
	insti.physics.sunysb.edu /~siegel/quack.html (1186 words)

	Urban Dictionary: quack
		This quack has no skills in medicine at all.
		My mother is always quacking her jaw at me.
		Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=quack&r=f (212 words)

	The Enquirer - This is a tough case to quack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Enquirer - This is a tough case to quack
		Cincinnati.Com » The Enquirer » Local News » This is a tough case to quack
		Riley Myers, 15 months old, examines a concrete duck left headless on the porch of his Florence home.
	news.enquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050602/NEWS0103/506020372 (504 words)

	Let's Quack [version 1.0]
		I saw someone using one at a recent conference and have to have one.
		Known for their famous quack, ducks tend to congregate in flocks or go off on their own in pairs.
		As a duck, you may seem friendly at times but will not hesitate to bite if someone is bothering you.
	community.livejournal.com /lets_quack (843 words)

	Quack Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		National Council Against Health Fraud is a vital organization in the U.S. fighting medical quackery today.
		Quack machines - Gizmos - Magnets: A cure for all diseases, Canadian style
		The Bakken Library maintains a special collection of quack devices.
	www.mtn.org /~quack/links/links.htm (766 words)

	quack - Wiktionary
		What a quack he is, saying that's an organic Viagra™ !
		to quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past quacked, past participle quacked)
		The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Quack (126 words)

	Quack
		The East Bay Skeptics Society A local non-profit, member-governed organization dedicated to: The advancement of reason, science and intellectual integrity -- and to the exposure of superstition, fraud and pseudoscience.
		Table of Contents Subscription info Quack Eye Massagers Richard Van Vleck From American Artifacts No.41 A variety of devices designed to modify the shape of the cornea by applying pressure or vacuum were marketed for at least seven decades.
		The Watchtower Society has been heavily involved in occult, psychic and quack medical procedures throughout much of its history..
	www.chauncy.myfoolmoon.com /Quack.htm (705 words)

	Quack definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Quack definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Quack: 1) A practitioner who suggests the use of substances or devices for the prevention or treatment of disease that are known to be ineffective.
		Quack Remedies - Nostrums...They Aren't What They Seem -
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11814 (192 words)

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