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(informal) A person or agency that seeks to expose and discredit quackery..
That interest has exceeded its original bounds as a hobby; now, Dr. Barrett is a "quackbuster” full-time.
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.
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.
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.
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Quackbuster means (informal) A person or agency that seeks to expose and discredit quackery..
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That interest has exceeded its original bounds as a hobby; now, Dr. Barrett is a "quackbuster” full-time.
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