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by pachydermic 3564 days ago
Isn't this what the whole point of the free market is?

Are there really more bad ideas for crappy products now than there were in the past? I mean, "snake oil salesman" used to be a real thing, right? It's not like it's anything new going on here.
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icebraining 3564 days ago
And this article is part of the free marketplace of ideas.

"snake oil salesman" used to be a real thing, right? It's not like it's anything new going on here.

So we should avoid criticizing snake oil salespeople because they've been around for a while?

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emodendroket 3563 days ago
It seems like a failure of the free market that tremendous amounts of money and labor are going into idiotic products while basic research is increasingly neglected.
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