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Paid health advice is not free speech

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  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
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    CSARdiver wrote: »
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    The other issue is that what recourse is available when the licensing body (the government) claims expertise and isn't held accountable? Can I sue the government for harmful information such as the food pyramid?

    Licensing bodies are part of a representative government. What recourse is available changes somewhat from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. You have the right to vote against people who make bad appointments; if enough other people agree with you, well, you know how this works.

    In order to sue, you need "standing" which means you have to show how you've personally been harmed by the food pyramid. Living in a world of fat people doesn't count.

    The real question is why are we taking about the nuts and bolts of how democracy works in a thread about a shyster defrauding the public with $1,200 woo?

    Representative government requires an informed populace. When the same body control the information the process is fatally flawed. Licensing prohibits innovation in favor of monopolies.

    Regardless one cannot sue the government. Burden of proof is a moot point.

    Is there evidence of fraud and woo peddling?

    There are plenty of places around the world that don't have strict licensing of things. They are generally not places of cutting edge innovation brought on from freedom of regulation. They do tend to be filled with shoddily done work, scammers, and preventable deaths.

    And of course you can sue the government. People sue the government and win all the time on things.

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