Snake oil
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snake-oil-204-2846923
title:
Snake oil
text:
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. The term comes from the "snake oil" that used to be sold as a cure-all elixir for many kinds of physiological problems. Many 18th-century European and 19th-century United States entrepreneurs advertised and sold mineral oil as "snake
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Euphemism for false advertising
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
date created:
2001-12-25T00:53:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:18:09Z
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13
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