It does exist, as does snake oil, homeopathies and cosmetics that at best aren’t any more effective than the Placebo effect.
I’m personally in two minds about it. I don’t like banning stuff, or overregulation, but you still need redress if you buy something from a complete charlatan that (a) doesn’t work and (b) turns out they knew all along that it didn’t work.
There are three ways to react if 10 million people are harmed by Big Pharma COVID drug side effects:
1. Ask them all to sue individually
2. Rely on class action lawsuits for each drug, which means they’ll do the exact same thing next time there’s a new variant of COVID
3. A government says “you buggers are never going to play that game again.”
It’s been the same old carousel since Thalidomide.
It’s easily the most complicated question for conservatism. As much as you like small government, free enterprise etc., do you really think option 1 is better for an individual citizen than option 2 or option 3?
And conversion therapy is just another snake oil market in a long line of snake oil markets. It shouldn’t be singled out, but if we already know that it is a very unreliable treatment, then it should not be marketed as an effective treatment.
It may be, but do we actually have any double blond studies? People act as if homosexuality is genetic, but we have no scientific evidence that that is true. The reality is we have almost no evidence about why someone is homosexual. We just substitute politics for science.
[The only thing remotely scientific I know of, are studies that find if the mother had previously had several male children before, the odds go up, But really, the evidence there may not be that solid.]
“And conversion therapy is just another snake oil market in a long line of snake oil markets.”
https://web.archive.org/web/19990506141219/http://narth.com/docs/study.html
But lots of treatments that don’t work are completely legal.