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by fwip 593 days ago
To see the issue, replace "R&D Corp" with "Mystical Crystal LLC" or "Mr. Henry's Miraculous Snake Oil Elixir Ltd."

Fraudsters and scam artists are happy to rip off people trying to avoid death.

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Or Steve Jobs. The problem isn't so much that the treatments don't work. It's that they're pursued exclusive of ones that do.
I responded to this in other posts, but this would be throwing the baby with the bath water. And it's especially bad as the good suffers more. Legitimate companies will follow the law, but the ilegitimate actors will just sell mystical crystal anyways.
I've never really understand this whole "laws are useless because criminals will break them" thing.