I find your opinion here fascinating and value your perspective! It's neat to debate which kind of 'scam' is worse. Every value proposition for health supplemen

I find your opinion here fascinating and value your perspective! It's neat to debate which kind of 'scam' is worse. Every value proposition for health supplements/medicine has 3 parts: 1. Features (what it is: ingredient, quality, purity, potency etc) 2. Advantages (how does its mechanism of action work and how is it unique/better than alternatives) 3. Benefits (why does the consumer care because it relieves pains or acquires gains) I agree with you that 'scams' that target the Features (like the fake/counterfeit generics example) are terrible and we should aggressively go after this type of scam. However, had those Features been real, the Advantages and Benefits of those generics probably had good evidence/support. Just because you got fake pills, doesn't mean that the real ones don't work well. But Homeopathic medicines ALWAYS have Advantages and Benefits problems. Even if the Features are okay, and you get exactly what you expected, the mechanism of action will never work and you will never get the benefits more than a placebo. If any marketing convinces you otherwise (like the label or having shelf space at CVS in the 'eye care' aisle), then you are a victim of another type of 'scam'. Homeopathic products, as far as an rigorous research is concerned, always have Advantages/Benefits problems. On one hand, regulating Features is maybe easier for a government to do and that is an argument for limiting the scope to Features issues. However, the health and monetary costs of products with fake Advantages/Benefits is undoubtedly many years of life and billions of dollars, so there will be pressure to regulate. (maybe you disagree with the costs/externalities here) It's definitely an interesting discussion. Hopefully smart people are working on getting real data about the pros and cons!