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    Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam. Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. [1] The term comes from the "snake oil" that used to be sold as a cure-all ...

  3. May 28, 2024 · Snake oil benefits include relief from arthritic pain, healthy skin and hair, stronger immune system, improved heart health, & increased cognitive function among others.

  4. Nov 1, 2007 · For centuries snake oil has been a folk remedy in Chinese medicine, used primarily to treat joint pain such as arthritis and bursitis.

  5. Aug 26, 2013 · After seizing a shipment of Stanley's Snake Oil in 1917, federal investigators found that it primarily contained mineral oil, a fatty oil believed to be beef fat, red pepper and turpentine....

  6. Sep 1, 2021 · Just to confuse matters, Floridian reptile squalene – actual snake oil – has been credibly proposed by scientists for use in COVID vaccines.

  7. Snake Oil: Created by Matt Laesch. With David Spade, Nicholas Heffelfinger, Lana McKissack, Eileen Galindo. Contestants will present unique products to convincing entrepreneurs, some of which are real while others are "snake oil salesmen.

  8. Oct 16, 2021 · Snake oil has become the byword for dodgy treatments while those who spruik them are dubbed 'snake oil salesmen'. But the traditional medicine has a long and exotic history.

  9. Be careful what you rub on your skin, drop in your eyes, or drink down. It could be snake oil! Today that term merely refers to fake medicinal products or general poppycock, but go back far enough and people were rubbing real snake oil in their eyes.

  10. Nov 19, 2009 · There is no shortage of snake oil in America. Whether sold by politicians as endless campaign promises, or by spammers tempting us with virility enhancers and other elixirs of life, we are all too familiar with snake oil and its salesmen.

  11. Aug 26, 2013 · After seizing a shipment of Stanley's Snake Oil in 1917, federal investigators found that it primarily contained mineral oil, a fatty oil believed to be beef fat, red pepper and turpentine....

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