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Meet the New Snake Oil, Same as the Old Snake Oil
During the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, government investigators performed laboratory tests of Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment -- a potion supposedly made of rattlesnake oil that offered "immediate relief" for rheumatism, sciatica, sprains, lumbago, deafness, and other ailments. The tests found that the liquid contained not the advertised reptile juice, but rather mineral oil, red pepper, turpentine, and other ingredients.
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The New York Attorney General's slapdash, cursory testing may have had something to do with their results.
I don't see they are doing anything aside from turning a blind eye.