>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>
> > |wants to sell herbs or accupuncture services, I wouldn't interfere.
> > |But if ey claims in advertising that they will help you lose weight
> > |or cure your flu, then ey has committed fraud.
> >
> > Can you prove decisively that acupuncture cannot help you lose weight?
>
>I can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, to the standards of criminal
>law, that the person making the advertisement and selling the
>services does not have valid evidence that the method is effective.
Depends. Maybe you can meet your burden to a jury from Lubbock, Texas. But
maybe not to a jury in San Francisco.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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