re candida yeast bloom fact or fiction in article apr vms ocom okstate edu banschbach vms ocom okstate edu writes i don t like the term quack being applied to a licensed physician david questionable conduct is more appropriately called unethical in my opinion using laetril to treat cancer patients when such treatment has been shown to be ineffective and dangerous cyanide release by the nci hmm this is certainly among the things i would refer to as quack therapy and would tend to refer to any practitioner who prescribed laetrile whether licensed or not as a quack there are unethical behaviors such as ordering unneccessary tests to increase fees which i would not lable as quackish but prescribing known ineffective therapies seems to me to be one of the hallmarks of a quack david rind rind enterprise bih harvard edu
