Template:Did you know nominations/William R. Ferguson

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... that William R. Ferguson received a two year prison sentence for selling a quack medical device that was claimed to cure disease through "a force unknown to science"?

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:*Source: The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America, p. 328-329. quote: "Inside were two plastic tubes containing "Zerret Water." Ferguson said this produced the "Z- ray, a force unknown to science." To have his diseases cured, a patient had only to sit holding the dumbbell, one ball in each hand, for at least thirty minutes at a time.... "The medical con man Ferguson was sentenced to two years in federal prison."

:*extra source on device being quackery (other than the section title: https://books.google.com/books?id=CeMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA220 and Sifakis, Carl (1993). "Medical Quackery", p 171}}

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PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:13, 25 May 2025 (UTC).

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|comments = Congrats on the GA! Article is in good shape, the hook is cited and interesting, and no issues with copyright and whatnot exist. One suggestion: the article includes a image of one of the "Zerret Applicators", could that be used as a pic for this DYK? Anyhow, this is good to go IMO.

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:It could in theory, it's a free FDA image. I've never added an image to a DYK hook so I'm not sure how that works. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:27, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

::*I've added the image above, which will be shown if it's the first hook of its set. (the order is decided by the promoter, so we'll see if it actually ends up being featured...) Either way, great work! [[User:CanonNi]] (talk • contribs) 08:27, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

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