[ELI5] How governments allow snake oil “medicine” to sell on TV, light night? Some of these products are dangerous to people, like prostate crap that will do nothing and may prevent the people to survive if diagnosed too late?

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[ELI5] How governments allow snake oil “medicine” to sell on TV, light night? Some of these products are dangerous to people, like prostate crap that will do nothing and may prevent the people to survive if diagnosed too late?

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America is set up in a way that allows predatory practices for businesses, based on the (false) notion that “the consumer is smart enough to know when they’re being lied to”. It’s not just medicine, it’s political misinformation on cable news, it’s advertising, it’s a LOT of first-amendment stuff.