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, -
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/438342/would-this-module-serve-the-intended-purpose-of-hulda-clarks-zapper the question in question, incidentally
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
