Snake Oil

Snake oil is an interesting metaphor for what happens to these sort of exotic, indigenous medicinal treatments that end up coming to the west. The last thing i wanted to talk about with snake oil in particular is how it became sort of or shorthand for this kind of hucksterism. Yet, we're referencing moon juice a lot here, because this feels very moon juicy. So i'm just going to distil these ingredients down without regard to where they come from, without regard to what makes them work. Just boil a snake. It doesn't matter what kind of snake. Doen't matrwhere you found the snake. T doesn't matter how long you boil it for. Find a