ORIGINAL: Arthur P
Never tried snake oil myself, but chicken fried rattlesnake is pretty darn tasty.
Yes, I've had rattlesnake and it is pretty good.
Its beginning to look like this site needs a "Carbon Bashing/Groupie" forum.
Or a maybe Carbon True Believers forum where blind faith automatically overrules any scientific fact. [8D]
I know some people at church who would say yes indeed, blind faith does, in fact, overrule any scientific fact. Imagine that.
My personal opinion from what I've taken in on all these scent block threads and from what I've researched... All scent block has going for it is anecdotal stories. No independent scientific studies or lab tests. Just a bunch of guys who believe they see more deer when wearing it than they did when they didn't.
Doesn't occur to them that maybe they just learned to hunt better; or that they might be taking more care with their personal hygiene than before; that there might be a strong updraft in the wind currents between him and the unalarmed deer that appears to be directly downwind of him, or maybe they just got on a roll of good luck and managed to wind up in the right place at the right time. Not a single thing about ANY of their stories proves that they wouldn't have seen just as many deer without the stuff as they did with it, given the same circumstances.
That's not bashing. It's just the way it is. It can't be proved one way or the other.
That's not bashing??? Let's see, you essentially say anyone who uses it and says they have had a good percentage of positive deer encounters as opposed to not using it only thinks so because 1) they THINK they saw more deer, 2) they improved their hunting skills but are too stupid to realize they did something different, 3) they took a bath that day and never realized they hadn't taken one before, 4) they can't understand the effects of wind between them and the deer 5 yards away. Wow, and that was just in the above paragragh. Arthur, I'd sure hate to be in front of you when you were bashing. 
Oh, and basically saying we are fools below is definitely not bashing. Yes, we have no knowledge of what we're doing or never spent enough time in the woods to know what we see. Maybe people who've never used it don't know how many mature deer they never seen. I'm assumimg mature deer are wily and quiet, without firsthand knowledge, of course. [8D] What's really funny is that what ever some may wear or use doesn't bother me whatsoever and I sure don't feel compelled to denegrate my fellow hunters, or anyone for the most part, but some people sure do let something as silly as what someone else buys or wears get under their skin to the point they have to try and make them look stupid. I've bought stuff before that wasn't what it was advertised to be and stuff that wasn't as quality as it should have been for the price. My scentlok isn't one of those.
Really though, if that kind of anecdotal evidence is all that's needed for definitive proof, we'd have long ago been forced to believe that flying saucers, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are real.