: How snake oil got a bad name #IndiaNEWS During the pandemic, the pejorative term “snake-oil salesman� has been bandied about a lot. It is been used, perhaps with a tinge of 1980s nostalgia, to

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How snake oil got a bad name #IndiaNEWS
During the pandemic, the pejorative term “snake-oil salesman� has been bandied about a lot. It is been used, perhaps with a tinge of 1980s nostalgia, to describe convicted fraudster and serial opportunist Jim Bakker, whose colloidal Silver Solution required only some deft rebranding to become a specific curative for Covid-19. For this, the televangelist found himself on the receiving end of multiple cease-and-desist letters, followed by lawsuits, from several United States states. This past June, at least one suit was settled when Bakker agreed to return the “donations� his ministry had collected in exchange for his product.Then there are the “Snake-Oil Salesmen of the Senate�, as a New York Times opinion piece labelled them. This referred to a collection of Republican senators and the medical experts they had invited to a hearing about hydroxychloroquine, a drug hyped early in the pandemic by Donald Trump as something he had a “really good feeling� about.The opinion piece’s author, Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, had warned at the hearing against deploying the drug against Covid-19. Dr Peter McCullough, a cardiologist at Baylor University Medical Center, described Jha’s testimony as “reckless and dangerous for the nation�.Just to confuse matters, Floridian reptile squalene – actual snake oil – has been credibly proposed...Read more

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