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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

The latest Super Foods. Remember when coconut and especially coconut oil was called a super food and was all the hype, yet coconut oil is full of saturated fats (higher than in butter) and actually raises cholesterol levels when consumed regularly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Vagina rocks.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Television. I cannot understand why anyone would willingly pay money to be advertised to constantly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (10 children)

CBD products

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Dietary advice based on the food pyramid/MyPlate. Before the late '70s, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and mental illnesses were all rare in the general population.

We need to be eating fewer carbohydrates, not basing our diets around them. We need to be getting most of our calories from fat, not demonising it.

Thankfully, we have people like Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Chris Palmer, Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Shawn Baker, Dr. Paul Mason, Dr. Tony Hampton, Dr. Jason Fung, and others spreading this message.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

IoT, AI, much of consensus based academia and press.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How is IoT snakeoil? A great chunk of the world's infrastructure runs on IoT devices. Your electric, gas, and water meters are almost assuredly IoT if you are serviced within the US.