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"text": "Suddenly I hear a roar like a lion then a gagging sound like someone is getting choked to death then high-pitched voices little quacky voices like the Chipmunks on the radio calling back and forth to one another Christmas Christmas time is here time for joy and time for cheer.",
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"text": "1998 September 9, Joni Mitchell, interview quoted in 2003, Alan Hecht, Polio, page 72,\nI know this sounds real quacky but they did some mysterious good to the problem and I feel fine."
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"ref": "2003, Wayne Besen, Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, unnumbered page",
"text": "Although some of the moments surrounding my coming out may seem humorous in retrospect, the underlying harsh fact is that thousands of desperate people are willing to embrace the quackiest of measures to cure homosexuality in themselves or in loved ones, and this is anything but funny.",
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"ref": "2008, John Hayes, Primate Wars, page 115",
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"text": "Dr. Torrent described the signs and symptoms of RP, surveyed the established research into causes of the disease, and summarized the failed attempts to develop a cure, including a barbaric method pioneered in the USSR involving the injection of quacky medicine directly into the patient's eyeball.",
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"ref": "2010, Margie Hinkle, Sherry Hatchett, Bonnie Holmes, editors, I Walk with God: The Autobiography of Marjorie Clevenger Hinkle, page 21",
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},
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},
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