As we talk about people drinking bleach and ivermectin, 🇺🇸 Representative Ro Khanna and 24 others have just sent a letter to FDA to request guidelines on protection of "genuine homeopathic products".
Let that phrase sink in:
> genuine homeopathic products
😂
As I read it, "genuine homeopathic product" is a product made by one of the manufacturers designated as "genuine", thus saving them the hurdle of competing on the difficult snake oil market.
Homeopathic products are a very curious case, especially when put against the anti-vaxxer complaints about vaccines being "insufficiently tested".
Not only homeopathy doesn't go through *any* clinical trials but in many EU countries it's the only medical product that has an explicit exception and simply doesn't need any evidence of efficacy.
That's what lobbying from German and Swiss industry has done.
Also a few years ago there was a massive "grassroots" campaign against one EU regulation called Codex Alimentarius, which the critics called "totalitarian" and argued it leads to a "ban on growing herbs in home gardens".
Of course, it was driven by German manufacturers of some snake oil remedies.
The actual purpose of the regulation was to prevent "remedies" from being labelled as curing X unless a scientific evidence exist that it does indeed cure X.
No no, cucumber curvature was one of the EU myths invented by British tabloids. They turned what was basically a trading classification standard (as "vegetable of such and such shape is class A, that shape is class B etc") into a nonsense where "EU bans straight cucumbers".
Codex Alimentarius is dedicated to labelling of medicinal products - basically, if you're selling vitamin C, you cannot label it as cure for cancer, impotence and headache unless there's scientific evidence for any of these.
Of course, before Codex the "remedy" manufacturers would write *anything* on the labels only to boost their sales, which was totally dishonest and harmful to the customers who believed they are buying an actual medicine.
Here's a website that discusses tons of such EU stories created by British tabloids http://eumyths.com/
That's an interesting case, because UK politicians mostly repeated lies created elsewhere - specifically at media such as Daily Mail, a rather appalling cooperative of xenophobic, racist and nationalist journalists, writing stories for equally nationalist and thrill-seeking audience. These are the people who engineered Brexit.
Kiri 
@kravietz Good God, I hate snake oil salespeople so much...
@kravietz This clown represents CA-17, a district that covers a large part of the Silicon Valley.
Because of California jungle primary system, I am strongly against primarying incumbent Democrats, but Ro Khanna isn't a Democrat. If there is a viable establishment challenger to this corrupt tool in 2022, they will have my full support.
That's even more interesting, as the people he represents are clearly not uneducated or financially deprived (to put that lightly). 😮
@kravietz That... is just bananas, like, I'd expect no reasonable human being would be _that_ irresponsible. 😕