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quackbuster en · NOUN

Etymology

From quack + buster.

Meanings

1. (informal) A person or agency that seeks to expose and discredit quackery.
   • The Amazing Meeting, an annual celebration of science and skepticism founded by the magician and quackbuster James Randi, sells out in hours in both Britain and the United States. 2013, Mark Henderson, The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters, page 26:
   • This meant that while most of the public continued to associate the work of the FDA with its policing duties as de facto quackbuster, the administration quietly spent more time and money investigating the booming pharmaceutical industry. 2013, Eric W. Boyle, Quack Medicine, page 142:
   • Monbiot also published his research in the Guardian, which must have presented Guardian readers with some odd contradictions, for some of the people that Monbiot targeted as the criminal dross of the crisis PR industry were the very people lauded by his Guardian colleague and quackbuster, Ben Goldacre. 2017, Martin J. Walker, Corporate Ties that Bind:
   • That interest has exceeded its original bounds as a hobby; now, Dr. Barrett is a "quackbuster” full-time. 1986, California Physician, page 48:

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