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>The point of regulation is not to prevent you, the consumer, from making an informed decision to damage yourself. The point is to prevent the producer from exp
by magduf 8y ago
>The point of regulation is not to prevent you, the consumer, from making an informed decision to damage yourself. The point is to prevent the producer from exploiting uninformed human vulnerabilities. In the case of quack medicine, we have an easily exploited glitch in our brains that makes us associate exotic substances with medicine.
So why don't we regulate/ban quack medicine then?
- dTal 8y agoWe do. Dunno what country you're from, but in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...
- magduf 8y agoSorry, that's BS. Here in the US, we have chiropractors, homeopathy, TCM, and other "alternative medicine", all making tons of money, and the FDA doesn't do anything at all about it.