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noun (n)

• medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  empiricism
  

  source: wordnet30
• the dishonesty of a charlatan(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  charlatanism
  

  source: wordnet30
• The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.(noun)

  source: webster1913