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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Jan 27, 2010, 19:07
handofdave wrote:
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.


Isn't this part of the reason why internet pharmacies with highly questionable legal status are making such a killing by making generics cheaply available over there (and over here, for that matter)? Successive US presidents have paid lip service to the importance of free enterprise - maybe this is an example of free market capitalism working against the agendas of companies and politicians who so vocally support it. Can't say I'll be losing any sleep over that, personally.
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