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handofdave

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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots

Jan 27, 2010, 18:27

Merrick wrote:

handofdave wrote:

so if people want to believe in it, I'm not going to tell them different.

People can believe whatever crap they like, but the country's leading pharmacist has a duty to act on what we know. When they've seen the evidence and concede that homeopathic pills are just nibs of sugar, they should stop selling them as medicine.

If your argument is that the insurance/public health system shouldn't be paying for it, I agree with you.

At the same time, I have to point out that big pharma, with its giant profits, has (in the USA anyhow) muscled their way into a position where they have enormous control over the healthcare system. Their leverage allows them to attack nontraditional medicine's legality and grant themselves power over what doctors prescribe. As a result, we've got people going broke paying for insanely expensive drugs that carry dangerous side effects... admittedly, some effective, but some not so much.

Am I against quackery? Yes. Am I also against corporate seizure of the doctor-patient relationship? Oh yes indeed.

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