[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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One thing that I don’t see covered here…

Speaking as someone that’s worked in questionable marketing spaces; a lot of it also comes down to the ability to enforce the ability. There are far more scams and questionable products out there than there are resources to tackle them all. Plenty of them just fly under the radar until they somehow attract enough attention to actually get investigated.