Quack.com was spoofed in The Simpsons in March, 2002 in the episode Blame It on Lisa in which a "ComQuaak" sign is replaced by another equally crazy telecom company name.
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It was originally founded in 1998 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici as a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, based voice portal infrastructure company originally named Quackware.
Although they avoid the use of the term "quack", doctors interviewed by The Guardian maintain that such transplants are medically impossible and not supported by peer-reviewed medical evidence.
Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History is a polemic by British writer and Daily Telegraph journalist Damian Thompson which examines the dissemination and reception of fringe theories.
Browne briefly attended Louisville Medical Institute, an experience that inspired his first book, Confessions of a Quack (1841).
In Recueil General des Oeuvres et Fantaisies de Tabarin, Tabarin was the buffoon who attracted the crowd to the booth where Mondor sold his quack medicines.
Friedrich's company grew into a small publishing house in Hayward, California, also called Star*Reach, that published the comic book series Quack; Imagine; and Lee Marrs' Pudge, Girl Blimp, along with a number of one-shot comics.
It contained a drug, as Holmes expected, but there was also a letter there from a man named Lowenstein who, it turns out, is a quack whose help the professor sought out as a way of achieving rejuvenation, which he thought would be advisable if he were going to marry a young woman.
The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.
The game's final stage is an science-fiction setting where Buster plays "a Knight of Honor" who has to rescue Babs, who is in her Princess Leia-based persona from the episode "A Quack in the Quarks".
Baker was a notorious cancer quack, operating clinics in Muscatine and Eureka Springs, Arkansas, that were heavily promoted over KTNT and then XENT.