Homeopathy: “There’s nothing in it”
Today’s 10:23 event organised by the Merseyside Skeptics Society and reproduced across Britain, saw skeptics gather outside several Boots stores and pop “entire bottles” of homeopathic remedies.
The attempted mass overdose is aimed at puncturing the pseudo-science surrounding homeopathy, which often trades on ambiguities to make it sound as if various pills and solutions are chemically potent in a way which is kookily analogous to regular, tested and approved medicines.
Homeopaths have been quick to protest that they wouldn’t expect any overdose effect from their solutions. Nevertheless homeopathic products are often sold in a way which apes regular medicine. In a Youtube video from the Leicester overdose, on man proclaims as he reads from the pill box: “Maximum of twenty in a day – and I’ve just had eighty-four!”
http://www.1023.org.uk/the-1023-overdose-event.php
Also see http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jWqL9JQBf6vJxDJGfMxGaLrWHesQ
Please note: You can overdose on water so do not take lots of homeopathic substances each diluted in vast quantities of water. Do not attempt to prove or disprove the efficacy of any unusual substance, prescription or over-the-counter drug by overdosing on it. Always know exactly what you are putting in your mouth!
I wonder if the people who defend homeopathy on the, “So what if it is a placebo? It still works”, ticket would join us if a company (Boots, for example) were found to be marketing something as “Aspirin Tablets” which had zero aspirin in them? I suspect they would be shouting from the rooftops “it’s a con!”, just as we are about these scam medicines. “Aspirin” tablets with 0% aspirin would work at exactly the same level as homeopathic remedies… placebo.
We have historical phrases for selling something that is disguised as something else, one of which is “buying a pig in a poke”. All we “homeopathy sceptics” are attempting to do is let the cat out of the bag!
If homeopathic medicines could work, then why wouldn’t other homeopathic compounds? Should airport security types be on the look out for homeopathic explosives? If this can be discounted then so can homeopathic medicine & those marketing it should be treated as fraudsters. You couldn’t market homeopathic Nike trainers.
my uncle got stomach ulcers because he took a lot of Aspirin to take care of his high blood pressure.”*,
aspirin is a good anti-inflammatory still in use today. ,*~
aspirin is one of the safest anti-inflammatories that you can use for lots of things`;~