snake oil

For Sarah Palin and her pals, man-made global warming is nothing but a "bunch of snake oil science" .

it would throw everything we ' ve done into disrepute , could make us look as if we reinvented snake oil.

if you get better after taking the snake oil , no one can tell whether it was the snake oil or whether you would have got better anyway.

Unhappily for the president, many voters appear to be buying this snake oil.

Snake oil should not be substitute for professional medical or health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment.

Please. Don't let the double dealing, snake oil politicians from Beijing share the spoils of this war.

His predecessors include the snake - oil man and the door-to-door purveyor of anything from brushes to Britannicas.

All of these things act to remove any type of protective coating, whether it's a high quality protectant or an inexpensive snake oil.

A phrase like "mental fitness" is bound to attract charlatans and snake-oil salesmen.

Now, the Obama administration is evidently worried that it bought economic snake oil from Keynesians like Krugman.

In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.

The term " professor" has been attached to bartenders, magicians and snake oil salesman, as well as academics.

The authors rightly eschew the determinism peddled by the snake oil salesmen of futurology.

As weeks go by, that makes him sound more like a seller of snake-oil than of snake-blood.

It fails to take into account the roles of confidence, stories and snake oil in economic fluctuation.

Snake oil salesmen would falsely claim that the potions would cure any ailments.

First, it has a duty to regulate asset markets so that people are not falsely lured into buying snake-oil assets.

Not only that: it may also produce the want for the snake oil itself.

The term snake oil comes from the 19th-century American practice of selling cure-all elixirs in traveling medicine shows.

Selling need not be about snake oil and ripping people off.

The most obvious is quality control: the market is infested with snake-oil salesmen, and they are harder to spot from half a world away.

There are snake-oil salesmen in every line of business.

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