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Re:U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing most... by magduf on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:39PM (#19872201)
>The point of regulation is not to prevent you, the consumer, from making an informed decision to damage yourself. The point is to prevent the producer from exploiting uninformed human vulnerabilities. In the case of quack medicine, we have an easily exploited glitch in our brains that makes us associate exotic substances with medicine.

So why don't we regulate/ban quack medicine then?

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Re:U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing most... by dTal on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:36PM (#19873123)
We do. Dunno what country you're from, but in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...

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Re:U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing most... by magduf on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:39AM (#19878160)
Sorry, that's BS. Here in the US, we have chiropractors, homeopathy, TCM, and other "alternative medicine", all making tons of money, and the FDA doesn't do anything at all about it.
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