Conversion therapy is talked about a lot, but does it really exist, except in a microscopic amount?
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.