Sentences with phrase «than snake oil»

Some claim CBD oil helps with everything from anxiety to inflammation, others say it's nothing more than snake oil.

Many parents of children with autism are opting for unorthodox remedies, some of them no better than snake oil

Please go away Glenn Beck... you are no different than a snake oil salesman.

The only other comment I'd have is that whilst he meets a much higher standard of scientific approach than the snake oil dressed as financial advice elsewhere, the core testing methods used are opaque and (as far as I can tell) not peer reviewed or made available for scrutiny.

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In a field that's long struggled to prove scientific doubters wrong (and attracted more than a few charlatans selling snake oil), Laberge's efforts have been enough to attract serious investors like Cenovus Energy and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The snake oil salesmen in The Babble are all men because The Babble was put together by men in a time when women were considered less than equal.

can be nothing other than an effort at snake - oil seduction of flabby - bodied and flabby - minded people who think of God as a senile Grandfather, by whose indulgent grace they can pray their weight away rather than dieting and exercising.

This in your face I'm better than you because I'm a Christian who uses the term The Lord Jesus Christ blah blah blah and so on are killing our faith in a world where people are more laid back and want nothing to do with some snake oil religious sales person.

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.

the guy that wrote this movie is a swindler, no different than TV evangelists that snake oil.

One of the most common cure - alls was snake oil, and its less than sterling efficacy soon lent its name as a generic to all such fraudulent hoaxes.

We were recommending our clients go gluten - free way back when people thought it was nothing more than selling snake oil.

Other than snaking the drain, is there a way to «break down» the soap / oil build up?

As for terraclean: search some of the forums for opinions vary from snake oil to bettrr than a desler...

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.

I guess I'm just irked when those in my profession sound more like the snake oil salesman of old than the professionals we are.

As Raiden tries to stop a team of super terrorists who are holding hostages on an oil rig — it's more complicated than that, but I only have so much space — he is assisted by someone calling himself Iroquois Pliskin who looks, talks, and acts exactly like Solid Snake.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

People died because SA leaders, significant numbers of media opinionators, and even ordinary people, valued the local wisdom about AIDS being a nutritional disease rather than HIV, routinely lauded western AIDS heretics and snake - oil salesmen, and entertained conspiracy theories about the disease itself being a plot by western outsiders, and that anti-retrovirals, rather than a treatment, were just another aspect in this devious plot of western - medicine to sicken people in Africa.

Usually these overpriced snake oil cures are worse than ineffective, they are in fact to the detriment of the environment / climate / health that politicians and officials claim will be improved.

Mr Cummings is disparaging in his blog about the alleged «superpowers» attributed to Cambridge Analytica, saying they are no better than many other «snake - oil» salesman operating in the field of political marketing.

Incentives push toward keeping and copying data rather than deleting it — and using it to, say, quietly target the credulous with ads for snake oil, limit the groups who see certain real estate ads or serve African - American voters with ads designed to depress Election Day turnout.

Avoid any over the top snake oil pitches and there are more than a few.