This week, Riley tells Luke about the heyday of medical practice when every man and his dog had a solution to all your ill's tune in now as this podcast is proven to be a viable vaccine for scurvy *citation needed.

 

Sources:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thailand-magic-cards-radioactive-warning-illness-radiation-expert-pro-network-a8965261.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/mar/15/radiation-exposure-levels-guide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-history-of-snake-oil-salesmen

https://web.archive.org/web/20110709165111/http://www.enotalone.com/article/11597.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Stanley

https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/peddling_snake_oil/?/sb/show/peddling_snake_oi

 

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