[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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Governments that dictate what’s “allowed” are authoritarian, it’s not the right frame of mind, government doesn’t “allow”, a government should put reasonable restrictions to obvious society hazards, and always treading carefully when doing so.

As for your specific question, u/cikanman has offered a pretty good answer.