Funniest snake oil theories

Status
Not open for further replies.
Jump to Latest
#2,901
Pano said:
You didn't try very hard. 😉 Performance boosters for cars is, and has been for 100 years, full of lucrative B.S. A much larger market than Hi-Fi. And of course performance enhancements for humans and horses. A long history of quack medicine, as SY mentioned. Where do you think the term "Snake Oil" comes from?
Click to expand...

Ah but you miss my point. What boy racer type who on having fifty thousand plus to waste on kit, would spend it on enhancements when he could go and buy a real sports car 😀

Even quack medicine is priced so that the ordinary joe can (just about) afford it.

Horse fanatics! they make vinyl and valve aficionados seem space age, no common sense to be found there at all. Mind you, most of them appear to get tossed off quite regularly so maybe they get some satisfaction from their obsession. Probably have to spend a lot on quack medicine afterwards too 😉
 
#2,904
Or on your comfort with taking what belongs to others and giving them nothing in return. Many people are very comfortable with that but its not "new".
john curl said:
Please don't go overboard, SOC. I have limitations to my beliefs. Anybody who studies physics, or even follows the SCI channels must come to realize that REAL science is full of mystery and that the scientific 'facts' that we may have learned in our youth may be already found to be inaccurate.
It kind of reminds me of my father who more than 60 years ago told me: "We will never get to the Moon, it is too damn far away". Even I knew that IF we could achieve 7 mi/second (somehow), travel to the moon was possible. I teased my father about this 20 years later. It is a matter of attitude toward new concepts, you can stay safely in a world of common belief, or you can attempt to find what is really happening. It depends on your 'comfort' with new ideas, or at least, this is my opinion on the subject.
Click to expand...
 
#2,905
Or on your comfort with taking what belongs to others and giving them nothing in return. Many people are very comfortable with that but its not "new".
john curl said:
Please don't go overboard, SOC. I have limitations to my beliefs. Anybody who studies physics, or even follows the SCI channels must come to realize that REAL science is full of mystery and that the scientific 'facts' that we may have learned in our youth may be already found to be inaccurate.
It kind of reminds me of my father who more than 60 years ago told me: "We will never get to the Moon, it is too damn far away". Even I knew that IF we could achieve 7 mi/second (somehow), travel to the moon was possible. I teased my father about this 20 years later. It is a matter of attitude toward new concepts, you can stay safely in a world of common belief, or you can attempt to find what is really happening. It depends on your 'comfort' with new ideas, or at least, this is my opinion on the subject.
Click to expand...
 
#2,913
Not enough Omega 3 in our diets is a big problem, we used to eat far more oily fish than we do now and many people are suffering because of it. EPA supplements have apparently been shown to alleviate depression and immune system deficiencies but they are not cheap.

It's better to eat oily fish than snake oil IMO.
 
#2,916
The best snake oil comes from the salmon farming companies in the West of Scotland! They have devastated the wild sea-trout population and are making massive inroads into the wild salmon population. The companies involved have retained virtually every marine biologist to sell the oil which claims that they do not upset the natural balance of anything. Naturally I cannot mention the political aspects of this state of affairs.

davym

The Etive - near you - and the Laggan are closeby examples.
 
#2,917
Loch Etive is a few hundred yards away from my house. Interesting case study! Salinity levels dropping have wiped out mussle farms on the loch fairly recently.

One thing I found weird in my last job was the appearance of billions of skeleton shrimp in Loch Creran. They came all the way from Japan in ships ballast tanks and breed like crazy here. They creep me out more than a little bit.

My brother manages a shore based Salmon farm north of here, not something i'm very comfortable with. It takes 4 tons of ocean caught wild fish (often juvenile) turned into medicated pellets to rear one ton of farmed Salmon. The impact of the monsters they breed are having a terrible effect on wild stocks including Sockeye Salmon in Canada. When will we ever learn, when it's far too late?
 
#2,920
@ dayvm

Sorry to hear about your Brother....but you should see my sister! She is a teacher!

....and here on the River Tweed we have an outrage in that Signal Crayfish - a non-native species - have got into the salmon spawning areas. These go through the natural food supply almost as fast as Agent Orange and with about the same effect to the habitation.
The attached link - should anyone be interested - applies:

Crayfish
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom