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Snake oil is a fraudulent marketing allusion to the selling of fake medicines.

Snake oil may refer to:

• Snake oil (cryptography), a fraudulent cryptographic method
• Snake oil method for generating functions
• Snakeoil (album), a 2012 album by Tim Berne
• Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil, a 2020 album by Thomas Wesley
• Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations, a book by John Diamond (2001)
• "Snake Oil", a song by Steve Earle off of the album Copperhead Road (1988)
• Snake Oil (TV series), a reality game show hosted by David Spade and broadcast on Fox

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