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The Ridiculous History of "Snake Oil"

Ridiculous History

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Professor Marvel's Remedy

i missed the days when you could just put any stupid possibly dangerous thing in a bottle slap a label on it that said remedy and some high-faluting uh esoteric language and people would buy it. That's like snake oil right some kind of fake treatment or cure  a way to fix a condition that modern medicine just can't combat. perhaps yeah panacea's your mileage may vary caveat and towards so on i love to use the word remedy because i i i knew it was a very dangerous time in history but i missed the days When we were able to get our hands on all kinds of cures for everything from bad skin baldness to cancer genetic diseases what else oh man i mean you

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