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Originally Posted by blazey
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.
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I think you'll find they aren't saying it'll cure "X Y & Z" more that it is an alternative to try when conventional methods don't seem to be working. secondly you can't claim something is guarenteed "to cure" unless it has gone through extensive tests & trials, so I don't believe the companies are saying this.
I'll give you the boots comment because if you're going to protest of course you'll go where you get the maximum attention. One thing in Boots favour though as opposed to some other Medical/Chemist shop chains is, I believe non of their testing of products are done on animals( I stand to be corrected should this not be true). So maybe a more disreputable company would've been better to demonstrate outside.
As to the Academics trying to "prove an Anti-Capitalist point" this I fear is a complete misnomer The Word Academic defines some one who has gone through Schooling / Uni / College gaining qualifications (presumably & at no small cost to the individuals family !) along their way so they can get a better job at the end of it all with
"Better Pay" now there's a true anti capitalist ideal.
Yes I'll give you that as well, fair play for people who have the strength of belief strong enough to take them onto the streets to protest their feelings, but I'm sure the police were happy to give up their weekends with their families to make sure no one came to harm, due to the extra control required to ensure a peaceable demonstration & the flustered mums with small kids being even more stressed by being harangued for going into Boots to buy medicines for little Joihnny & Janeys cold .... yes have a nice Weekend !