scams, snake oil, -
I really detest people who take advantage of the gullible and desperate by making some kind of sciencey-sounding nonsense and selling it to people for $ridiculous
now I see someone asking on stackexchange basically for the best way to electrocute themself because some snake oil salesperson claims that it's good for you or something--and they're extremely convinced that it works because they've "used it already with impressive results"
re: scams, snake oil, -
I hate that people will take advantage of others like this. the victims don't even realize that they're being taken advantage of, because they're convinced that it's the medical/scientific/whatever community at large taking advantage of them, and they can be enlightened to the secret truth or whatever nonsense they choose to use
it's like cult rhetoric or something
re: scams, snake oil, -
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/438342/would-this-module-serve-the-intended-purpose-of-hulda-clarks-zapper the question in question, incidentally