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Originally Posted by shillelagh
BBC News - Sceptics stage homeopathy 'overdose' to discredit drugs
Homeopathy sceptics have staged a mass "overdose" of homeopathic remedies, in a bid to prove they have no effect. Protesters ate whole bottles of tablets at branches of Boots in places such as Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, London, Leicester, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
But why .. if some people prefer to use homeopathic remedies rather than traditional medicine then let them.
But why protest outside boots because theyre selling them .. its not just boots that sell homeopathic remedies .. superdrug does, any chemist does, even holland and barratt do ... so why pick on boots ..
Anyway the protesters took an 'overdose' of some homeopathic remedies .. god knows what but still took an overdose .. thing is what would have happened if there was a reaction .. they'd have had to go to hospital for a stomach pump or whatever ..
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Well maybe they're disgusted that people can profit from something that actually causes nothing but a placebo effect. To be fair, if someone was saying that their homeopathic remedy cured cancer and cost, I don't know, £100, we'd be disgusted because 1. we'd know it was a lie and 2. it'd be profiting off sick, potentially dying people.
They targeted Boots probably because it has the dominant position in the market and is the most visual target for impact.
I imagine that there would have been educated people about these things in their midsts as well who knew that you could take a large amount of them with no dangerous affect. Most protests about anything like that involve academics who spend their whole lives trying to prove their anti-capitalist point.
Fair play to them I say for caring enough about their cause to take the time to prove their point. It didn't harm anyone, unlike animal rights protesters and the likes, so it's fine by me. I can't stand people who cause harm to innocent people to prove some sort of point though.