001. Robyn Blumner, of the Center For Inquiry, writes in "Message From the President and CEO":
"another notable CFI victory was the crackdown by the Federal Trade Commission on the marketing of homeopathy, something CFI had urged in formal testimony. Hopefully this will put a dent in the $3 billion a year that Americans spend on this consumer fraud";
hear, hear.
002. meanwhile, the American national naturopathy organization AANP, at naturopathic.org, tells us in "Zicam is NOT Homeopathy!" [2017 archived]:
"homeopathy is a 200 year-old medicinal science";
oh how fraud-abetting organized North American naturopathy is!
"homeopathic products should not be sold in Australian pharmacies because they place consumers at 'unacceptable risk', an independent review of pharmacy regulation for the health department has found [...] the report found [...] 'the only defence put to the panel regarding homeopathy was that it was harmless and able to be used as a placebo in certain circumstances. The panel does not believe that this argument is sufficient to justify the continued sale of these products in pharmacies' [...] Ian Carr, a pharmacist and member of Friends of Science in Medicine, welcomed the finding, and said [...] 'my biggest complaint about the status of homeopathy is not that people are essentially putting placebos into their bodies, it’s that they are putting their trust in a certain way of thinking that has no evidence base [...] homeopathy carries a small or medium risk with no benefit'."
hear, hear.
003. and, at The Guardian, there's the recent article "Homeopathic Products Should Not Be Sold in Pharmacies – Review" (2017-06-27) by Melissa Davey which states:
"homeopathic products should not be sold in Australian pharmacies because they place consumers at 'unacceptable risk', an independent review of pharmacy regulation for the health department has found [...] the report found [...] 'the only defence put to the panel regarding homeopathy was that it was harmless and able to be used as a placebo in certain circumstances. The panel does not believe that this argument is sufficient to justify the continued sale of these products in pharmacies' [...] Ian Carr, a pharmacist and member of Friends of Science in Medicine, welcomed the finding, and said [...] 'my biggest complaint about the status of homeopathy is not that people are essentially putting placebos into their bodies, it’s that they are putting their trust in a certain way of thinking that has no evidence base [...] homeopathy carries a small or medium risk with no benefit'."
hear, hear.
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