one out of every six bottles did not receive the dose of active homeopathic drug solution due to the wobbling and vibration of the bottle assembly during filling of the active ingredient

so 15% of the products sold didn’t even contain whatever magic ingredient it was supposed to.

Letter from US Drug Agency to British Homeopathic drug manufacturer;

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2012/ucm314629.htm

Quite how they’re expected to ‘prove’ that the magic ingredient is present when there is, almost by definition, none in the finished product is going to be fun too 🙂

Holy shit, there’s someone talking to me through a box on my desk.

that’ll be 50pounds via paypalgift please yeti.

you’re aura has been cleansed.

Surely if diluting the solution a bazillion times is what makes it effective, then leaving it out entirely will make it even better?

that’ll be 50pounds via paypalgift please yeti.

I didn’t see that one coming.

said the blind man in the public toilets

I might try selling the scientific equivalent of it, call it Placebo. Then at least trades descriptions cant shut you down.

Does this nonsense still receive NHS funding?

My aura may have been cleansed phil, but me chakras are all over the place. Send me my money back, you robbing dog!

Try a homeopathic Gin and Tonic :
Mix 1 drop of gin with 50,000 litres of tonic water
Decant into a glass that once had a piece of lemon in it

(Please drink responsibly – don’t dilute it too much)

barnsley – I can sort that for you but first you must suck on my thermometer.

Citing the original work on homeopathy, Richard Dawkins once explained that the optimal dilution of active ingredient was one part in more matter than is in the known universe. Obviously the book was quoting powers of.

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justatheory – Member

Does this nonsense still receive NHS funding?

yes – and interestingly its cost effective in that if someone has something that cannot be cured or even diagnosed by conventional medicine – giving them homeopathy saves more in doctors time and prescriptions of medicine etc than the the homeopathy costs

Placebos are big business in the NHS. When I challeneged why people were refered to a reflexologist since it is complete bunkum I was told it is a very cost effective way of making someone feel a bit better about themselves.

My input was that sugar pills and saline injections would be even cheaper if we were knowingly participating in deception.

yes – and interestingly its cost effective in that if someone has something that cannot be cured or even diagnosed by conventional medicine – giving them homeopathy saves more in doctors time and prescriptions of medicine etc than the the homeopathy costs

Power of the mind eh! I’m sure that good bedside manner contributes too.

Are GPs allowed to knowingly prescribe a placebo?

If people are stupid enough to believe in god, they are certainly stupid enough to believe in homeopathy…

Homoeopathic jokes rarely work

They do, you just have to concentrate.

What do you give a homeopathist for Christmas?
An empty box, with the memory of a present inside.

The Southern Yeti – Holy shit, there’s someone talking to me through a box on my desk.

Are you one of Charlie’s angles TSY?

“Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely ‘skull water’ with the memory of brains.” – Robin Ince

That “Bad Science” book discusses the lack of any evidence that homeopathy itself works, but has a good discussion on the placebo and bed-side manners aspects of it and also other things such as performing fake operations on knees and things, and them getting better.

performing fake operations

Lol!

Put the guy under, sit around chatting and reading the paper for two hours! I like it.

surely you would need to at least leave a scar?

Mix 1 drop of gin with 50,000 litres of tonic water

You’ve got that ratio back to front – the tonic will never be effective at that concentration

Put the guy under, sit around chatting and reading the paper for two hours! I like it.

it was something like they a control group thing – some had real knee ops for a problem, but some had fake ones. The guys with the fake ops also got better.

And there is another one about guys with pacemakers fitted but no batteries, and they still got better.

Can’t find the bits as I have lent the book out, but it is worth a read and it is eminently sensible.