{"id":10468,"date":"2011-12-04T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10468"},"modified":"2011-12-04T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T08:00:52","slug":"i-knew-you-could-i-knew-you-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10468","title":{"rendered":"I Knew You Could, I Knew You Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theness.com\/neurologicablog\/index.php\/you-too-can-be-a-snake-oil-salesman\/\">You Too Can Be a Snake Oil Salesman<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For \u201cmagic bracelet\u201d type products it\u2019s even easier. Your product essentially works by magic, so just throw out a bunch of technobabble that doesn\u2019t mean anything. Keep up with the latest buzzwords for maximal effectiveness, but here are some suggestions: \u201cBalances your energy frequencies,\u201d \u201cQuantum whatever,\u201d \u201cWorks on the nano cellular level, \u201cResonates with your connecticazoit.\u201d Make sure to include at least one reference to \u201cquantum\u201d or \u201cenergy\u201d and you\u2019re good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One tip that&#8217;s not spelled out completely is that testimonials generally make no causal claim.  &#8220;I use this and I&#8217;ve never felt better&#8221; or &#8220;after using this, my pain went away&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually mean the product has anything to do with the end results.   But it&#8217;s easy to get people to fall for <em>post hoc, ergo propter hoc<\/em> \u2014 happened after, therefore was caused by.  (Hey, nuclear weapons weren&#8217;t invented until after women got the right to vote.  Just sayin&#8217;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Too Can Be a Snake Oil Salesman For \u201cmagic bracelet\u201d type products it\u2019s even easier. Your product essentially works by magic, so just throw out a bunch of technobabble that doesn\u2019t mean anything. Keep up with the latest buzzwords &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10468\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}