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Technically not snake oil.

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Lol and yet, simultaneously, it is snake oil, at least figuratively.

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16 points

Drinking snake oil would be crazy

Drink cod oil instead

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So this is fun: actual snake oil (the type made by Chinese railway workers) probably had some medicinal benefits. However, white “doctors” co-opted this for their medicine shows; it contained no snake and was just mineral oil, so this is where the term has its origins.

Maintenance Phase podcast did a great episode on medicine shows.

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I believe cod liver oil does have some benefits too. My understanding is that historically one of the primary uses was to stave off rickets, a childhood disease. This actually worked because the oil is high in vitamin D, the thing these kids actually needed.

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67 points

Why will people try anything besides real medicine :(

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21 points

Maybe if enough republicans die, Texas will turn blue.

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One can only hope

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They’ll just start a conspiracy that the democrats killed them and vote even harder conservative. Their brains are molded and crystallized, they aren’t fuckin’ changing lol

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Voting is over. There will not be another fair election in the US until the guillotines fall.

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I don’t think the answer is as simple as memes would like to believe. Personally I suspect the issue, in part, has to do with the cost of healthcare in the US.

Much like Republican voters have a need to pretend the GOP is actually helping them, I think holistic medicine rubes and anti-vaxxers have a need to discount the efficacy of unaffordable healthcare. They don’t need to worry about the price being a multiple of their income anymore, because they just now decided every doctor is a quack and a conman.

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I think what also plays into it is apathetic doctors. People go to the doctor for help, if they have a doctor that doesn’t actually care about helping them and only spends a couple minutes with them before getting shooed out the door, this causes people to seek alternative forms of medicine. Another thing that happens is the doctor comes up with a treatment plan and insurance denies it. So once again, this is something that would cause people to seek alternative medicine. They get desperate for a fix for whatever problem ails them and the snake oil salesmen are right there ready and waiting for them on TikTok/Instagram/Facebook.

So between apathetic doctors and rising medical costs along with fear mongering on social media about medications being “poison” and natural cures being better, oh and let’s also add in there easily gullible idiots, you get where we’re at today.

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That’s good point. It’s sad but true

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probably when real healthcare is affordable

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Vaccines are almost always free.

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So now they’ll still have the measles but also be spewing out of both ends nonstop… Lovely.

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they might as well drink a whole bottle of ipecac. they are going to get so dehydrated too(i once got dehydrated from food poisoning, from spewing out both ends)

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I guess it’s better than drinking Borax or injecting bleach…

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probably going to consuming essential oils. all these homeopathic, antivaxxers are all in on the essential oils.

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You guys, we are going to need to make a whole new country to get away from this madness.

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God, that actually sounds kind of nice.

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