That’s a thought terminating cliche. Academia doesn’t care about commercialization, they care about grants and they don’t much care which organization it comes from. You can argue why they don’t make it to market as FDA regulated medicines but not why there’s no evidence for their efficacy.

> Telling that person apart from the sea of charlatans complicates things a bit.

Peer review (for all its faults) and clinical trials that inform evidence based medicine. That’s how you tell them apart.