How To Become A Charlatan, Step By Step

[whatthehey]

15. My favorite is still the pads to draw poison from your feet

My dad fell for those and spent ten minutes telling me how it was impossible to be faked because no matter how much I told him about toxins and permeability it absolutely must be extracting something nasty from him or the pads wouldn't turn brown.

I then told him that some latent dies turn brown with added moisture from sweat.

To give him some credit, that one did need some lateral thinking, basic though it was. People who fall for water-memory just can't even manage linear logic.