I agree with the GP - medical practices must be regulated carefully and qualified. To remotely sell a product that claims to function or affect one in a medical manner should be fraud unless it is passed through rigorous government-run testing.
Immediate human health should be protected from corporations - like banning tobacco advertisements have done to keep from glamorizing the act to children. Sure, product placement and depicted/actual usage are seen all the time, but the extent is much smaller and more uncontrolled, as it should be.
Adults should be allowed to make their own decisions, but I think that as a community we should, like the way we regulate narcotics advertising to the way we regulate companies, restrict the ability of unscrupulous people from making money over medical fraud, as that does immediate harm to their health. It leaves the same loophole like smoking enjoys in theater (actor smokes as part of role, or vice written in, etc) but heavily restricts the ability to defraud new customers.
Immediate human health should be protected from corporations - like banning tobacco advertisements have done to keep from glamorizing the act to children. Sure, product placement and depicted/actual usage are seen all the time, but the extent is much smaller and more uncontrolled, as it should be.
Adults should be allowed to make their own decisions, but I think that as a community we should, like the way we regulate narcotics advertising to the way we regulate companies, restrict the ability of unscrupulous people from making money over medical fraud, as that does immediate harm to their health. It leaves the same loophole like smoking enjoys in theater (actor smokes as part of role, or vice written in, etc) but heavily restricts the ability to defraud new customers.
