Posts tagged snake oil salesmen
James Arthur Ray and the Cult of Self Improvement

This recap is going to be a little different, since it involves reviewing and discussing the documentary Enlighten Us (2016) directed by Jenny Carchman. For the sake of the director/producers, we won’t go into the film’s details - you’ll want to watch the documentary and then come back to the episode for that - but I’ll delve a little into the things that kept us up at night.

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Energy Wars: Did Thomas Edison Steal Nikola Tesla's Inventions?

And thus begins our descent into fraud and fortune, into the lives and lies of those we affectionately refer to as snake oil salesmen. This week, Olivia kicked us off with a household name - a man who is (I daresay wrongfully) synonymous with dozens of revolutionary inventions: Thomas Edison.

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