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Clark Stanley's Snake Oil. Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam.Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. [1]
Snake Oil is an American game show that premiered on September 27, 2023, on Fox. The show is hosted and produced by David Spade . Contestants and their celebrity advisors are asked to separate the legitimate inventions from the made-up ones.
Snake oil is a fraudulent marketing allusion to the selling of fake medicines. Snake oil may refer to: Snake oil (cryptography), a fraudulent cryptographic method; Snake oil method for generating functions; Snakeoil, a 2012 album by Tim Berne; Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil, a 2020 album by Thomas Wesley
Clark Stanley (b.c. 1854 in Abilene, Texas, according to himself; the town was founded in 1881) was an American herbalist and quack doctor who marketed a "snake oil" as a patent medicine, styling himself the "Rattlesnake King" until his fraudulent products were exposed in 1916, popularizing the pejorative title of the "snake oil salesman".
Snake oil salespeople may use "technobabble" to sell their product since cryptography is a complicated subject. [2] "Unbreakable" Claims of a system or cryptographic method being "unbreakable" are always false (or true under some limited set of conditions), and are generally considered a sure sign of snake oil. [1] "Military grade"
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Those who sold them were called "snake oil salesmen", and usually sold their medicines with a fervent pitch similar to a fire and brimstone religious sermon. They often accompanied other theatrical and entertainment productions that traveled as a road show from town to town , leaving quickly before the falseness of their medicine was discovered.
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