A UK group known as 10.23 is planning a protest where 300+ people will ingest full bottles of pills and other large quantities of homeopathic ‘medicine’.
Martin Robbins, a spokesman for the society, said: ‘The remedies themselves may not be directly harmful, but there is a real danger in misleading customers into thinking that homeopathy is somehow equivalent to real medicine.
‘Patients may believe that they are treating themselves or their children adequately, and delay seeking appropriate treatment; or they may receive dangerous advice after consulting with homeopaths rather than their GPs.’
He added: ‘The ‘overdose’ is a dramatic way of demonstrating to the public that these remedies have literally nothing in them. If eating an entire box of homeopathic sleeping pills fails to send one person to sleep, then how on Earth can their sale be justified?’
This comes after a homeopathic quack leader told the British government that there is no evidence that these ‘medicines’ do anything whatsoever. He has since defended, at the least, his right to sell the crap. But such a right only exists when there is no other risk to public safety. Homeopathic medicines do provide that risk and should thus be banned all together.
Now such a demonstration needs to take place in the U.S.
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