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Originally Posted by Sommerset
You don't think any good would come from hearing one of these guys have to admit that none of this stuff produces any kind of measurable results?
Dr. Oz went before the subcommittee in June 2014, but he's still on TV. If you think that government involvement has any ability to get in the way of that, I think you're mistaken.
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Or have a subcommittee detail that fact by going through a number of studies?
Like a subcommittee is going to really do anything like that?
There are two ways the government gets involved:
1) Tax-exempt status -- If there is some appetite to do an audit, then maybe these guys lose their tax-exempt status. But it doesn't prevent them from continuing and (as I think I stated earlier in this thread) I don't think it stops them from doing business.
2) Mail fraud/wire fraud -- This wouldn't come down through the Senate (at least, not directly), but there are cases of televangelists being charged with mail fraud.
But the most that can come out of a Senate hearing is a dog and pony show.