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The best are the one trick doctors don’t tell you or the thing THEY don’t want you to know about.

A lot of scams and cons are deliberately stupid looking and absurd to pre-select for gullible marks.

It’s also why goofy conspiritainment shows are loaded with ads for quack medicines. Anyone who thinks we didn’t go to the moon will probably buy herbal dick pills.

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I was always a bit confused by the "doctors don't want you to know about" line until I understood that it's in a rather US-centric cultural context where doctors are seen as just wanting your money. Though there's probably also the idea that practitioners of mainstream Western medicine are hostile to "alternative" remedies and don't want you to try the latter even assuming that they're actually effective.

I suppose that, ironically, well-intentioned doctors would indeed prefer that people not know about these "tricks" and other medical scams.

I tried clicking one of those just to see and it didn’t even go to the alleged product but instead a landing page with even more of those ads! Shocking, I know :)

I wonder how many of them are basically click fraud to get money from ad networks.

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