Thursday
21Jan2010
Will You Participate In The 10:23 Protest?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 8:43AM
On January 30, 2010 at 10:23 a.m. several dozen (or perhaps even a few hundred) people calling themselves “homeopathic skeptics” or “consumer advocates” plan to protest outside the UK’s largest pharmacies to protest what they consider the chain’s hypocritical practice of selling homeopathic remedies even after an executive with the chain admitted that they don’t actually believe the remedies work.
According to the official protest website, one of the activities will involve the swallowing of entire bottles of homeopathic remedies to prove that even a massive “overdose” is completely incapable of “activating” anything in the body.
Does such a stunt interest you at all? Will watching someone swallow an entire bottle of something that homeopaths already agree can’t hurt you change your mind about homeopathy?
And what about the pharmacy chain’s role in all this? Do the powers that be at Boots have a responsibility to remove unproven but profitable homeopathic remedies? Do we really want to start demanding that our retail stores save us all from our own stupidity? If so, why aren’t they protesting colon cleansers? What about castor oil—often sold for something known as the “castor oil flush”?
Finally, what about the “delay of treatment” argument? Is the fact that someone might go to a homeopath before a mainstream physician really a good reason to outlaw “remedies” used by millions of people around the world?
Tell us what you think about the upcoming 10:23 protest. Will you go?
According to the official protest website, one of the activities will involve the swallowing of entire bottles of homeopathic remedies to prove that even a massive “overdose” is completely incapable of “activating” anything in the body.
Does such a stunt interest you at all? Will watching someone swallow an entire bottle of something that homeopaths already agree can’t hurt you change your mind about homeopathy?
And what about the pharmacy chain’s role in all this? Do the powers that be at Boots have a responsibility to remove unproven but profitable homeopathic remedies? Do we really want to start demanding that our retail stores save us all from our own stupidity? If so, why aren’t they protesting colon cleansers? What about castor oil—often sold for something known as the “castor oil flush”?
Finally, what about the “delay of treatment” argument? Is the fact that someone might go to a homeopath before a mainstream physician really a good reason to outlaw “remedies” used by millions of people around the world?
Tell us what you think about the upcoming 10:23 protest. Will you go?
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Reader Comments (1)
we have become as slaves, and will stop at nothing to do what we have been programmed to believe, and that is, that there is no other cure outside of drugs, we have forgotten the ways of our fathers. we are born with the ability to taste, smell and to distinguish between medicinal properies and harmful toxins in all plant life. american doctors do not fix your flat, but only air up your tire. before drugs came into being, we took care of snake bites , broken bones and all other sicknesses of the time, we cured our neighbor's horse, or his whole family. i can remember very few people that died on account of the medecine that was put togather, not far from where they lieved, cost was little to none. now, greed has come in and taken root, you go see doctor and he will charge you an arm and and a leg, if you are lucky, more often it will cost you your life, and still charge you! we have been feeding a dead horse much to long.