When I was a child, every county fair, and every carnival had a snake oil salesman.
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Offering treatments that are little more than snake oil to cancer patients is ethically indefensible.
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"It sounds like a snake oil project, I know, " said Simmons at a reception in Houston Tuesday night.
Speaking at a Congress hearing Wednesday, he sounded more like someone in the business of political snake oil.
Congress should also halt our Treasury Department's and the IMF's dispensing of toxic economic snake oil to Asia.
Another will be to maintain credibility in (and for) an industry that combines serious science with snake oil.
Because the aggregate customer in this economy has become the most credulous, whiny and pathetic dolt since snake oil.
His claims are little more than a modern, mystical version of the claims made by 19th-century snake oil salesman.
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Unhappily for the president, many voters appear to be buying this snake oil.
Sleep is also the new snake oil--the promise of a good snooze from a book or a bed or a bottle.
Some of the language I read reeked of snake oil, and the devices and apps often assessed my stress level inconsistently.
It is, however, highly profitable, and as long as rubes will buy, the snake oil salesman is always happy to oblige.
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The vast array of sleep tech is a long catalog of devices and apps that promise better nights, but beware of snake oil.
One man was literally selling snake oil a thing I had never seen before in addition to ant-egg oil, hair tonic, and unscented soap for pilgrims.
He has been involved in a long-running legal fight with Philadelphia-based Hemispherx Biopharma, maker of a chronic fatigue syndrome drug that he believes is snake oil.
Kotkin comes close to portraying Florida as a 21st-century snake oil salesman, offering local policymakers as much spray-on charisma as a one-man ideas festival can provide.
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On the podcast we also discuss a phenomenon that was abetted by the Internet, the mung bean-snake oil guru Zhang Wuben, written about in detail here.
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Even in China, investment advisors are busy selling snake oil to wide eyed investors thinking they can actually double their money in a short period of time.
Just as raw as the accounts of the unhappy PUAs ("pick-up artists") are the faux-testimonies doing the same job as the shills and plants of the 1890s snake oil market.
His assessment was that Mr Blair, "like his promises", was past their "use-by date" and that voters would not listen to a man who put "snake oil rather than milk on his cornflakes".
They are the modern day evolution of the gamblers, harlots, snake oil salesmen and con artists who followed the pioneers who settled the American west or the risk takers who search for gold in the hills.
Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.
Clever snake-oil salesmen like Mercola can easily circumvent the FDA with a few simple edits to their websites.
You see how they become easy pickings for people who have snake-oil merchants for solving all their problems.
Given that even MDs and PhDs can be disposed to acquisitiveness just like those snake-oil salesmen, never forget to look for the money.
The most obvious is quality control: the market is infested with snake-oil salesmen, and they are harder to spot from half a world away.
Snake-oil Survey The World Health Organization (WHO) in June released its ranking of the health care systems of 191 countries, using five measures of performance.
In short, how do you spot the snake-oil among information supplements?
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C. must balance its dual mission of facilitating investment and protecting investors, and as we all know, snake-oil salesmen are alive and well on the Internet.
The Dow lead not only the business pages but the nightly television newscasts, and silicon snake-oil salesmen, stealing a page from the Y2K playbook, even jumped in to claim that five digits would melt the exchange's computers.
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