| The new airport security rules, put in place after September 11, look and smell a whole lot like snake oil. |
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| We ran this by several geneticists at major universities, Kiran, and they said this is snake oil. |
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| Maybe his private chemist cooked up an elixir of bathtub gin, snake oil and Smith Brothers cough drops. |
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| Some therapies will become mainstream but most will go the way of snake oil. |
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| A colorful line on a pretty graph with no points and no backup data is a clear invitation to purchase snake oil. |
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| It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure. |
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| If mortgage securitization is snake oil, then it was snake oil that was patented and marketed by the U. S. government. |
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| These days, instead of snake oil salesmen hawking their wares from the back of a wagon, we have late-night cable television infomercials and Web-based promotions. |
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| Unlike the patent medicine hucksters of old, these software implementors usually don't even know their stuff is snake oil. |
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| Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil? |
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| Their snake oil promises to help you stop smoking, lose weight, or, alternatively, grow larger in certain areas. |
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| On the one hand, he knows he must remain with truth and science, and avoid snake oil and superstition. |
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| The thirties didn't lack snake oil salesmen, but few of them had the sophistication or the tools of today's representatives. |
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| There are no photo examples I can find, but I guess Griffin is a serious brand and they wouldn't sell this if it were 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. |
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| We need good medicine, not more jokey formulas for snake oil. |
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| A New Age theory of urban development amounts to economic snake oil. |
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| Promising physical immortality is, simply put, spiritual snake oil. |
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| Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. |
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| Let's hope that BP insists on scientifically proven methods and resists the urge to buy instant snake oil cures. |
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| It is up to Cameron show he is a potential prime minister and not just a media-savvy snake oil salesman. |
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| Steve Baker, snake oil salesman, slight of hand illusionist, mentalist and all round entertainer, will be back with three different shows each day Saturday and Sunday. |
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| Plus, there is peer pressure to say that it's all snake oil. |
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| One man was literally selling snake oil — a thing I had never seen before — in addition to ant-egg oil, hair tonic, and unscented soap for pilgrims. |
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| Cement mixer stuck on spin, The garbage lorry is the conscience bin, Wheel addicts turn to sin, War dancers rattle their snake oil skin. |
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| But it's David Cameron and the Conservative Party whose sales pitch could fill buckets with snake oil. |
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| Not even the famous hoaxster, Clifford Irving, would try to sell this snake oil. |
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| There are a lot of snake oil merchants out there that will try and sell you tools or try and make you buy into affiliate schemes to try and improve your search engine rankings. |
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| We don't offer snake oil or sell special potions to your business. |
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| Seems like half the gubmint bureaucrats and snake oil politicians want to help us. |
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| Ed Bolden is hardly a snake oil salesman, but you can't blame anyone who thinks he's selling something that seems too good to be true. |
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| It is the world of the snake oil salesman, peopled by devious wide boys, slimier than a bag of eels who think they are our masters. |
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