Medical cure-alls and scams are nothing new. The t...  ...as a popular way to advertise snake oil and other quack cures in the 19th century, and then there were ra...  ...lators did catch up with fraudsters, enterprising quacks got creative. By setting up towers and transmitte...  ...continues on the internet. R...

Neatorama has featured many articles about patent...  ...d many articles about patent medicine, snake oil, quackery , and dangerous cure-alls from the past. Those sto...  ...alverij (VtdK), translated as The Society Against Quackery , formed to fight the unscientific hucksterism tha...  ...ffort to raise awarene...

Zzyzx Road in San Bernardino County, California, i...  ...ation disagreed. They proclaimed him "King of the Quacks " in 1969. Throughout his life Curtis also claimed...

Dr. Linda Hazzard ran the Institute of Natural Therapeutics in Olalla, Washington, in the early 20th century. People looked to her clinic for alternative medical care, which mainly consisted of fasting as a cure-all.Desp...

(YouTube link)Sometimes we are dec...  ...s we are deceived. Our perception is not all it's quacked up to be! -via Arbroath

Every day can be Halloween when you slap one of these duck billed muzzles on your pooch's mug and hit the town.People will practically beg to give you candy, and maybe some money, for the sake of your poor little duck bi...

The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again. Go ahead and scoff at the cure-alls and tonics concocted in the 1800s, but know this: taken in large enough quantities...

The Science Museum of Minnesota obtained the colle...  ...innesota obtained the collection of the Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds and set it up as the "Question...