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by crazygringo 2437 days ago
Holy crap.

How is that legal? Is there no law by which they could be sued for misleading representation of a life-saving medical product or something?

It seems like such a no-brainer of a law. Serious question: why is this the first I'm hearing about it? I've literally never seen an article about this in any newspaper and I read a lot of news. And this is exactly the kind of stuff that journalists tend to discover and expose.

Where is the outrage, and how is this still being permitted?

1 comments

The FDA was bought off by a big homeopath company a while ago from what I heard. However, recently, they’ve began cracking down on false claims through the FTC.

As for the outrage: it’s because it’s too common; you don’t want to alienate a large portion of your viewer base by “exposing” homeopathic remedies