John Boyle O'Reilly

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Irish Poet

Elden Henson

What's funny is I still, more than anything, get recognized for 'The Mighty Ducks.' I love it. When I was younger, I would get embarrassed. I played sports growing up, and I'd be playing baseball, and the other team would be quacking at me and stuff.

American Actor

Ben Goldacre

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

British Writer

Douglas Adams

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

English Writer

Mehmet Oz

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Turkish Entertainer

Hunter S. Thompson

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

American Journalist

Sara Blakely

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

American Businesswoman

James Whitcomb Riley

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

American Poet

Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

French Clergyman

Ken Blanchard

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

American Businessman

Used to express strong disapproval of someone pretending to have medical expertise.

Negative Connotation

Use in informal contexts when discussing fraudulent or deceptive medical practices.

Context Sensitive

Avoid calling a professional a 'quack' without proof, as it's a serious accusation.

Avoid Offense

Derived from the sound it mimics, use it to describe the distinct sound ducks make.

Onomatopoeic Origin

Helpful for discussing animal sounds in English; each animal sound has a unique term.

Animal Sounds

Use when describing the action of a duck or a person imitating that sound.

Mimic Animal Sounds

Highlights the illegality of pretending to be a medical professional.

Unlawful Action

Use to express skepticism about someone's unverified medical advice.

Critical Suspicion

 Third, they are often creating markets. Even if you're bringing clean water for the first time into rural villages, it is something new. And so many low-income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them

Jacqueline Novogratz: A...

 not going to take the evidence of my experts on my mammograms or some cancer quack who wants to treat his patient with coffee enemas when you start down the road where belief in magic replace evidence in science you end up in a place you don't want to be you end up in

The danger of science...

 take to the street in protest and the police move quickly we hit anything that smelled like a biker that looked like a biker like they say it walks like a duck it quacks like a duck it must be a duck well it was the same thing if you wore

Ruthless Killer Bike...

 with us buddy oh yeah I like to get my hands dirty you know yeah I gotta keep them calloused well I can't say that I think that a lot of the people that are coming to help have their eye on future eggs I always like the ducks quack quack

It Takes a Village PIPE...

 welcome back to duck quacks don't echo where the three of us compete to present the best facts it's time for my second fax and I don't want to spoil it so just roll the tape please you may be reaching a time in life where you still feel

Bona Fide Fact? PIPE Duck...

 of my experts on mammograms," or some cancer quack who wants to treat his patient with coffee enemas. When you start down the road where belief and magic replace evidence and science, you end up in a place you don't want to be.

 duck quacks don't echo the show that proves unusual scientific facts in the most hilarious ways we're about to test my fact that shrimp have more endurance

Seth Versus Shrimp PIPE...

 each wheel you will notice a coffee mug don't go away we'll see if the four mugs can support this truck when duck quacks don't echo return

Built Cup Tough PIPE Duck...

 hey do a ma'am quack quack come on out fishing and find arrested step out here step over

Stoned Raptor Poacher PIPE...

 the quack as it says is uh sounds like a duck quacking it goes quack quack