[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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My mother in law fell for these all the time. She would get ads in the mail too. She would buy it and then say that she didn’t think it worked for her and she’d try another one. She ended up in credit card debt because of this kind of stuff