Open Salon

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Topics
  • Help
  • Sign in
 
  • Editor's Pick
  • Top Rated
  • Most Viewed
  • Most Commented
  • Most Recent
  • animals
  • belief/religion
  • books
  • business
  • comedy
  • design
  • economy
  • environment
  • family
  • fashion
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • food/drink
  • for sale
  • gay/lesbian
  • gossip
  • health
  • movies
  • music
  • news
  • open call
  • photography
  • poetry
  • politics
  • science
  • sports
  • technology
  • television
  • travel
  • video
Posted by
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1984 Views
    • 12 Comments
    User picture.

    Huffington and Robbins, a match made in snake-oil hell

    JULY 26, 2010 4:43PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, bright-sided: how the relentless pursuit of positive thinking has undermined america, greed, exploitation, huffington post, baby-boomer assholes, baby boomers, tony robbins, positive thinking, self-help, arianna huffington, snake oil salesmen, snake oil, fraudsters, fraud

    • 0 Ratings
    • 378 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    More bad news for "Global Warming"

    MAY 4, 2010 8:51PM

    By Gordon Wagner


    Topics: snake oil, horse feathers, bullshit, junk science

    • 1 Ratings
    • 334 Views
    • 3 Comments
    User picture.

    Chronicles of Myth: "The Sales Pitch"

    JANUARY 21, 2010 9:48AM

    By amittaizero


    Topics: 21st century, technology, education, snake oil, teaching, cartoon

    • 0 Ratings
    • 489 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Allergic to hypoallergenic animals?

    JUNE 8, 2009 9:42PM

    By Alicia PhD


    Topics: snake oil, scams, shams, genetics, allergies

    • Editor's Pick
    • 42 Ratings
    • 3144 Views
    • 70 Comments
    User picture.

    For sale: white elephant, low miles

    JUNE 7, 2009 3:46PM

    By Mrs. Michaels


    Topics: lying cat teeth, cat on a warm tin roof, cupholders, yankee ingenuity, snake oil, doctor, when the suv man meets the hatchback woman, truck-station wagon romance, lipstick on a pig, ford, f-150, lincoln navigator: the car you wished america hadn't built, lincoln, even the google couldn’t find the weird tricycly machines

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1098 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    Snake Oil Files: RLS Disease Mongering

    DECEMBER 30, 2008 12:45PM

    By jeffrey dach md


    Topics: restless leg syndrome, rls, snake oil, disease mongering, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 47 Ratings
    • 4025 Views
    • 73 Comments
    User picture.

    I Wish THE SECRET Was A Secret

    OCTOBER 29, 2008 8:07PM

    By marytkelly


    Topics: swiss bank accounts, oprah, snake oil, the secret

  • Open Salon
  • About
  • Contact
  • Help
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Advertising

Salon.com

© 2012 Salon Media Group, Inc.