I actually saw a guy selling snake oil when I was in Bolivia! Genuine oil retrieved from the carcass of a dead snake coiled up in a bucket! AND PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT!
The story is here: http://diaryofagolddigger.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-which-we-eat-lot-of-fish-but-not-35.html
haha, the cycle of medicine and drugs. I have a theory that the fact and truth today of medicine will be obsolete tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will be again a fact/truth. Silly truth.
This is fabulous...and completely true.
ReplyDeleteI actually saw a guy selling snake oil when I was in Bolivia! Genuine oil retrieved from the carcass of a dead snake coiled up in a bucket! AND PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT!
ReplyDeleteThe story is here: http://diaryofagolddigger.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-which-we-eat-lot-of-fish-but-not-35.html
Oops. Here's an easy link
ReplyDeleteLove it and SO true!!! Just like with homebirth.
ReplyDeleteSo true--so obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Agree that is so true.
ReplyDeletesad but true
ReplyDeletehaha, the cycle of medicine and drugs. I have a theory that the fact and truth today of medicine will be obsolete tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will be again a fact/truth. Silly truth.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
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