Sentences with phrase «as snake oil salesmen»

You see, in her wisdom, she views traditional publishing as the first tier, the better tier, and indie publishing as the snake oil salesmen of the publishing world.

You've just described yourself as a professional liar... unlike your projection of your lack of integrity onto climate scientists, I'm sure your self - identification as a snake oil salesman is 100 % correct.

Not exact matches

Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.

Titan traces Rockefeller's life from his humble origins as the son of snake - oil salesman to his pinnacle running the much feared monopoly Standard Ooil salesman to his pinnacle running the much feared monopoly Standard OilOil.

Guess I'll have to think of him as weird uncle Harold the snake oil salesman, who is more than happy to part the gullible from their money.

Yesterday, in Sunday Superlatives, I included a quote from Mark Twain in which he referred to a snake oil salesman as an «idiot,» but no one left an angry comment warning me of hell based on Jesus» teaching in Matthew 5:22 that «if you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court; and if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.»

I would bear in mind that a «gentleman» that acts in a way that at one point in time would have been crushing to Caryn and has not learned from that and changed is not safe for abuse survivors to be around and is not a gentleman but a scumbag snake oil salesman masquerading as a gentleman and deserves to be treated as such in protection of the innocent.

Point is, scam artists, snake oil salesmen, and pastors such as Camping are able to con people because they are masters of persuasion, and also because their marks are a bit too greedy to scrutinize what they're being told closely enough.

As for jesus, I believe he was a snake oil salesman.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

I know Harold Ford Jr. just arrived to New York, but as a native and lifelong resident, I know what New York values are, and I know a snake oil salesman when I see one.

Meanwhile Stewart Jackson, the parliamentary private secretary to the Brexit secretary David Davis made his feelings clear in a tweet that dismissed Blair as a «snake oil salesman».

Of course, I'm sure you'll refer to him as some kind of quack or snake oil salesman, because he doesn't follow what is engrained in nutrition courses and books, and guidelines thrown together by the USDA, which by the way, has done nothing to make us healthier as a population.

My final verdict on the matter is that juice cleanses are a complete and total scam, and that anyone who partakes in the business of selling them is ignorant about their own product at best, and a slimy, unethical snake oil salesman at worst and should be publicly exposed for their BS and probably fined and / or jailed for participating in a scam that misinforms the public and can put people's health in danger while touting their products as «healthy lifestyle alternatives.»

Dr. William G. Davies, an infamous snake - oil salesman, started his career as a promising medical student.

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Not only is it a lot easier to get noticed as part of a group, but you feel less like a snake oil salesman promoting someone else's work than constantly bigging up your own.

It's a fine line between raising interest and coming across as an obsessed snake oil salesman, but it's a process you refine over time!

I feel so bad for the man, because this could have been easily prevented, but there are some snake oil salesmen out there who will publish anything as long as you pay them the bucks.

A retrospective reveals him as designer, dreamer, architect, college professor, a snake - oil salesman, and a a prototype for Modernism in America.

As a professional auditor, I remain puzzled how company directors can face prosecution for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct by knowingly releasing reports to the market place that are seriously flawed if not fraudulent... yet the climate change charlatans (the IPCC and its assisting cabal of snake - oil salesmen scientists) can issue reports of greater consequence to the world, which are knowingly biased and flawed, and contain blatant errors and anomalies, but they still remain «untouchables»!

Since the IPCC writers are using exactly the same writing techniques as I did, can I assume that you consider them to be «snake oil salesmen» as well.

The snake oil salesmen tried to convince Charlie Skeptic that models are as accurate as satellite and radiosonde data.

«The promises are just as lofty and the substance is just as absent as the first snake oil salesmen who plied their trade in the 1800s.»

Recalling that I characterized «Girma» as a «Snake Oil Salesman» in my Jane Austen parody post in the «Sense about Sensitivity Thread» in April, 2013, I looked up why I did and discovered why I still DO think Girma is a slick operator:

Consider seminars such as Breaking Down Silos, where you can get some practical tools and strategies for successful networking without feeling like a snake oil salesman.

Should you get as far as actually sitting down with that group, think «snake oil salesmen.»