Snake oil is a euphemism for deceptive marketing and health care fraud. The phrase conjures up images of seedy profiteers trying to exploit an unsuspecting public by selling it fake cures.
In time, all of these false "cures" began to be referred to as snake oil. Some studies have found it useful against depression, even autism (though claims of the latter appear to lack solid support). The vast majority of the workers came from peasant families in southeastern China and were signed to contracts that ran up to five years for relatively low wages (compared with their white counterparts), wrote David Haward Bain in his book Empire Express. So I was temporarily convinced--for a few seconds--that there had been a change, but my REAL hearing abilities took over immediately and told me that no, there wasn't any change. I took four bottles of Hadacol, and now I'm teaching school.". At that time, many Chinese laborers emigrated to America to work on the construction of the First Transatlantic Railroad. Americans were amazed by its healing powers. The problem is that most snake oil is fake. The first written usage of the phrase appeared in Stephen Vincent Benet's epic 1927 poem John Brown's Body, when the poet refers to "Crooked creatures of a thousand dubious trades ... sellers of snake-oil balm and lucky rings." www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014299915301485, Vinyl Apocalypse: the LP Shelving Dilemma, Building a Sound Room: A Personal Journey, Tish, Boom, Awwk! He never publicly mentioned Chinese snake oil at all. The history of snake oil—the term and the alleged medicine—goes back, in the United States, at least to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line, in the 1860s. Maybe he also claimed that it tightened bass and improved stereo imaging.)
A version of the Hadacol Caravan aimed at black customers featured many blues and jazz musicians. A 1989 letter to The Western Journal of Medicine from psychiatrist and researcher Richard Kunin revealed that the Chinese oil contained almost triple the amount of a vital acid as did rattlesnake oil. A few objectivists consider AC power treatments snake oil: most modern audio components, after all, can correct for AC line-voltage flaws and reject "ripple" in a power supply's output. [4] His plea was accepted, and as a result, he was fined $20[4] (about $470 in 2019).
The phrase conjures up images of seedy profiteers trying to exploit an unsuspecting public by selling it fake cures. It really brings out the best in music. According to historian Richard White's book Railroaded, about 180,000 Chinese immigrated to the United States between 1849 and 1882. Unless you're a trained listener making an effort to maintain a consistent state of mind, any tweak, new component, or new accessory is virtually guaranteed to focus your attention more closely on the music, or some aspect of the music. But then very quickly I'd think, "Hmm, didn't really turn it up enough, it's still not in balance," and turn it up some more. The history of snake oilthe term and the alleged medicinegoes back, in the United States, at least to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line, in the 1860s. For some people, expensive speaker cables and interconnects are snake oil.
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Snake oil was also relatively rare, and as word of its effectiveness spread, new sources were needed.
*This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
That's why I think just listening--without double-blind tests--is actually usually pretty dependable. It wasn't Hadacol itself but Dudley LeBlanc's claims for it that attracted critical attention and eventually did in the enterprise.