[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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The “Unexplainable” podcast recently had a good half-hour episode – “Vitamin X” – That covered why the supplement business is largely unregulated in the USA.

Worth a listen.

https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/archives

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vitamin-x/id1554578197?i=1000569756830