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snake oil

noun as in worthless preparation

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Metaverse troubleshooting has gone the way of the snake oil salesman.

From Digiday

Metaverse troubleshooting, at least in part, has gone the way of the snake oil salesman.

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There are bad players out there, there is snake oil out there.

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Propagandists and scam artists have been selling their brand of proverbial snake oil for ages, all to bend people’s thinking to their goals.

It’s instead narcissism, solipsism, sociopathy, hatred, snake oil.

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Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.

Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil?

Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods.

Beware, too, of the snake-oil salesmen who promise permanently sharp knives.

Americans need protection from these snake-oil salesmen, and that protection depends almost entirely on Congress and the media.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to snake oil, such as: nostrum, and quack remedy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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