Steven Novella

And so that's what, like, the FTC exists for, saying, oh, you can't say that.

That's not true.

That's not just misleading.

Right.

It's actually fraud.

Right.

So that's what, you know, those kind of regulatory agencies exist for, though I think they give— Yeah.

It's really easy just to skirt regulations by just using a little bit of hyperbole or being squirrely about how you state things.

That's a— Yeah, so, right.

Yeah.

Some settling may occur during shipment.

Yeah, so they have lawyers that pour over their marketing to make sure that they're not stepping over this fuzzy line from hyping and marketing to fraud.

Investing is a different beast because lying to investors to get them to give you money is a different level of fraud, and that usually –

It's easier.

That's what Holmes got dinged for.

Not for selling a fraudulent product to consumers, but for lying to investors.

I wrote at the time, oh, so it seems like investors are more important than consumers buying fraudulent healthcare products.

I gotcha.

Right, right.

Now with AI, you know, it's one thing to say, we have a product, this is what it can do, this is what we hope it's going to do in the future.