Talk:Snake oil/Archives/2020

TCM ?

Given that large portions of the so-called "traditional chinese medicine" are wholesale modern invention and thus themselves snake-oil, the term should be removed. Snake oil may indeed have been brought from chinese immigrants (scientists belive the high omega-3 content is the "on to something" part, so basically we haven't advanced at all, just changed terms) but a phrase such as "folk remedy" is much more appropriate than the New Age loaded term TCM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.166.45.24 (talk) 14:34, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

This page really needs to lead with what most people mean when they say "snake oil", followed by the TCM usage. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:20, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

If there are no sections speaking about snake oil's historical medicinal uses in China anywhere in the article, then it should not be listed under the category "Traditional Chinese medicine" nor should it be primarily described as "a Chinese medicine" on the disambiguation page. The article as it exists today is primarily about "snake oil" as quackery, and not about the literal oil of snakes and whatever historical medical or nonmedical usage it may have enjoyed in any culture. clonk bonk 18:51, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I agree. Global Cerebral Ischemia (talk) 00:38, 1 May 2020 (UTC)