Snake oil actually worked. The problem is that it's specifically the oil from Chinese water snakes that works, and the hucksters were selling rattlesnake oil. Except they weren't even doing that. It was fake snake oil. Fake oil.

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Snake oil actually worked. The problem is that it's specifically the oil from Chinese water snakes that works, and the hucksters were selling rattlesnake oil. Except they weren't even doing that. It was fake snake oil. Fake oil.