snake oil

Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.

Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil?

Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods.

Beware, too, of the snake-oil salesmen who promise permanently sharp knives.

Americans need protection from these snake-oil salesmen, and that protection depends almost entirely on Congress and the media.