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

submitted 4 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I mean isn't it obviously homoeopathy and a significant part of the rest of alternative medicine (not all of it I guess). It is a billion euro business in Germany alone.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a word for alternative medicine that works. It's "medicine".

I forget the attribution.

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

Tim Minchin said it in "Storm" but I don't think he coined the term.