Your definition, I'd say, is unusual. As far as I can see, quackery really have two meanings. One is stated in the beginning of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery It is a disputed article needing improvement, but it starts "Quackery is the practice of producing fraudulent medicine" and thus, if someone believes in what they are doing they are not quacks. The second definition is a legal one. I do not know to what extent the laws differ here in different countries but in Sweden it is forbidden to treat children, cancer patients and a few other types of patients with alternative methods. If you do that, you are doing quackery. I think - but i am not sure - that treating people and pretending to have a medical exam that you do not have, also is quackery according to Swedish law. If you can show good reasons to believe that homeopathy is a deliberate fraud, that it is illegal in at least a few countries, _or_ a definition of the word "quackery" from a good source where the main meaning of the word supports you then please go ahead. English is not my native language, and sometimes the meanings of words is not exactly the same in different languages. Be prepared for debate though, as you probably are trying to change what the category is used for. Currently, this is all the articles in the category Quackery: Quackery, Chalybeate, Chelation therapy, Electrical quackery, HGH quackery, Jomanda, Magnet therapy, Oberon (device), Pinhole glasses, Quackwatch, Radioactive quackery, Snake oil, Violet wand. /Habj On 6/28/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is> wrote: