here, reporting from Canada on homeopathy pseudopharmacy:
001. Morgan Lowrie reports at cbc.ca in "McGill Science Group Takes Aim at Pharmacies for Selling 'Quack' Flu Remedy" (2019-01-17):
"a McGill University science communication group is taking aim at a commonly available homeopathic flu remedy, questioning why pharmacies continue to sell what it calls 'quack remedies.' A survey of 150 Montreal pharmacies conducted last month by the McGill Office for Science and Society found that two-thirds of them stocked Oscillococcinum, despite the fact that the product 'does not work [and] cannot work according to our scientific knowledge,' reads a publication on the office's website [...] 'nothing in homeopathy really makes any sense or is scientific' [...] 'there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective' [...] 'regardless of the school of thought to which he adheres, the code of
ethics is clear: The pharmacist must practise pharmacy according to
scientific data' [...] 'a pharmacist who encourages a patient to use such products by predicting
benefits would be placed in a situation of disciplinary offence' [...]";
hear, hear.
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