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Merrick
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Edited Feb 03, 2010, 12:55
Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 03, 2010, 12:55
handofdave wrote:
Do licensed doctors prescribe it, or is it merely available to people as a choice?


It's mostly done as people's choice, sold privately. The NHS does spend £4million a year on homeopathy, though.

handofdave wrote:
I don't see a problem with marketing the stuff as long as there is full disclosure that clinical trials disprove the efficacy of the stuff.


I think that's precisely the point being made! People are sold tablets in a pharmacy that say on the front they treat specific medical conditions, even though there is no evidence they work.

If people want to buy their homoeopathic pills or their rosaries, fine. But a medical pharmacy should be more scientific, it should surely only sell stuff that works, and not sell stuff that claims to work when the evidence shows it doesn't.
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