MD Barrett at ACSH 2018: "Homeopathy is Nonsense" So Contact the FDA

here, criticism, warning and suggestion regarding homeopathy:

001. at acsh.org, Stephen Barrett, MD writes in "Spotlight on Homeopathic Regulation - And How You Can Help" (2018-02-09):

"homeopathy is nonsense. Its fanciful 'law of similars' asserts that substances that can cause symptoms in healthy people will treat health problems that produce such symptoms. Its fanciful 'law of infinitesimals' asserts that the greater the dilution, the more potent the product and that even products so dilute that they contain no molecules of the original ingredient can be potent drugs [...] federal laws and regulations require that drugs marketed in interstate commerce be approved by the FDA as safe and effective for their intended purposes. No homeopathic product has ever been FDA-approved, and there is no logical reason to believe that any ever will be. In fact, the vast majority of substances in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia have never been tested [...] the 1962 Kefauver-Harris amendments to the FDC Act requires that all drugs be effective as well as safe. This law triggered an extensive review of prescription drugs that was followed by an extensive review of over-the-counter (nonprescription) ingredients. However, homeopathic products were exempted from these reviews [...] 'if the agency required all homeopathic products to meet drug-approval standards, none could be legally marketed' [...] if the FDA really wants to protect consumers, it needs an enforcement policy that is so efficient that unsubstantiated claims can be deterred or quickly driven from the marketplace [...] if you agree with my suggested strategies, please visit http://www.homeowatch.org/reg/fda_hearing_2015/comment.html for further details and submit a comment in your own words through the FDA comments page at https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2017-D-6580-0002 [...]";

hear, hear.

002. my comment to FDA, which likely will be published at regulations.gov:

"Dear FDA,

I'm adamantly against homeopathy products being marketed as effective, because, as the science indicates, they don't work and they can't work.

I'm also against untested products being assumed to be safe, and labeled as such.

I studied homeopathy in Federally-accredited and State-sanctioned naturopathic supposed medical school in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I found it to be stupid beyond any imaginable level of stupid I could have thought of before studying it.

It is pseudopharmacy.

Yet, bundled within ND programs that term themselves categorically "science-based" and "health science" -- academically and as commerce -- sits homeopathy.

Though not all that is indicative of naturopathy's fraud, homeopathy's presence within such ND degree programs shows just how wrong and robbing ND programs are.

-r.c."