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Well to be fair, you can also ask a snake oil salesman for his snake oil, but there's a reason we regulate these things. The first users might be high informati
by SapphireSun 11y ago
Well to be fair, you can also ask a snake oil salesman for his snake oil, but there's a reason we regulate these things. The first users might be high information, but once something starts to get popular, people start making bad decisions. You can argue that people can ask for whatever they want (and they can) but whether you can sell anything you want has long precedent, especially in health related areas where misleading information leads to dramatic decisions being made.
- jschwartzi 11y agoAnd, to be fair, the reason the FDA came into existence was because companies used to sell things that would seriously injure or kill you, and because there were no regulations they wouldn't advise you of the risks. Caveat Emptor doesn't help you if you have no way to become informed in the first place.