First: Yes, the government goes after medical charlatans all the time. (And individuals sue like this quite often.) No, they don't get them all. And few of thes

First: Yes, the government goes after medical charlatans all the time. (And individuals sue like this quite often.) No, they don't get them all. And few of these cases are high profile. But that doesn't mean they aren't working to protect people. Second: What does that matter? I'm no lawyer, but I'm almost certain a law isn't nullified as soon as one person gets away with breaking it. 23andMe is pretty high-profile. It doesn't matter how much a part of the tech entrepreneur inner-circle their founders may be, if they're doing something that might be harmful or misleading, it's completely appropriate for legal remedies to be explored. Especially when it sounds like they're thumbing their noses at the rather polite requests of the FDA.