Rep. Ro Khanna sticking up for "genuine homeopathic products"...

[SidDithers]

Link to tweet

Rep. Ro Khanna
@RepRoKhanna
I sent a letter to the FDA today signed by 24 of my colleagues regarding the new guidelines on homeopathic products. More clarity is needed on how the FDA plans to ensure that genuine homeopathic products remain accessible while protecting consumers from unsafe products.

What the actual fuck are "genuine homeopathic products"?



Sid

[hlthe2b]

1. How are they defining "homeopathic?"

[SidDithers]

6. Shit and sugar?...

Sid

[NewHendoLib]

9. this is great!

[hlthe2b]

14. Yes. I'd seen efforts to lump in a few herbal supplements into the definition to try to render

it more than, as you say "shit and sugar." To do the former is very dishonest, but more than a few state legislatures have been bamboozled by those doing so and thus given the entire issue wide berth.

[sir pball]

2. Maybe weed?

Cuz it sure sounds like I want some of what he's been smoking.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Don't

Because my pot never makes me believe in fairy tales!
Whatever she's smoking ain't weed.

[Klaralven]

4. Ones that do no harm, i.e. nothing at all.

The Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United States
https://www.hpus.com/

[Klaralven]

5. 25 Members of Congress Send FDA Letter in SUPPORT OF HOMEOPATHY

Together with our sponsor, a California Congressman named Ro Khanna, a letter was drafted and circulated among members of Congress so that it could be sent to the FDA. Thanks to the dedicated work of the HAT team as well as those of you who wrote to Congress during our recent campaign, these 25 signers were bipartisan with 12 Democrats and 13 Republicans.

https://homeopathychoice.org/

Ro Khanna
Member of Congress

Martin Heinrich
United States Senator
Mike Lee
United States Senator
Andy Biggs
Member of Congress
Gus Bilirakis
Member of Congress
Jamaal Bowman
Member of Congress
Tony Cárdenas
Member of Congress
John Carter
Member of Congress
Antonio Delgado
Member of Congress
Dwight Evans
Member of Congress
Brian Fitzpatrick
Member of Congress
Paul Gosar
Member of Congress
Glenn Grothman
Member of Congress
Diana Harshbarger
Member of Congress
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Member of Congress
Andy Levin
Member of Congress
Nicole Malliotakis
Member of Congress
Lisa McClain
Member of Congress
Joe Neguse
Member of Congress
Ralph Norman
Member of Congress
Chellie Pingree
Member of Congress
Jamie Raskin
Member of Congress
Matt Rosendale
Member of Congress
Thomas R. Suozzi
Member of Congress
John Yarmuth
Member of Congress

[SidDithers]

7. Jeez...

Sid

[Ocelot II]

8. Homeopathic products can be "genuine" but they're still useless.

Homeopathy is pure woo with no basis in science. If he's referring to naturopathic or herbal-based products, that's a different matter; those should be regulated because some can be dangerous in high dosages.

[PoliticAverse]

10. The placebo effect is real. n/t

[Ocelot II]

12. Homeopathy makes that effect expensive.

[PoliticAverse]

16. That helps the effect work. n/t

[carpetbagger]

11. Genuine homeopathic products....

These are generally very dilute solutions of substances that homeopathic practitioners have long used to treat diseases with similar symptoms as the effect of the symptoms. Generally not found to have efficacy (therefore none are FDA approved), but also not harmful. Presumably non genuine products are all the other things sold using "homeopathic" (sounds like home as in home remedies, right?) as a synonym for all the things lumped in under "alternative medicine", including herbs, drugs sold as food supplements, folk and nonwestern remedies and the Qanon flavor of the month (currently veterinary dewormer, and its FDA approved human analogue, approved for worms.)

I agree, I'm not a fan of homeopathy, I don't think it works based on scientific data, as a doctor it sure looks fun to prescribe though, but (unless used to avoid substantive and necessary treatment) it doesn't hold a level of harm that the FDA needs to get involved in, like they do with veterinary ivermectin and occasionally with toxic herbs and the like.

[carpetbagger]

13. In other words, what ocelot said, but long-winded. Nt

[Budi]

15. I'm going with, "who's got investments in Homeopathy Companies"

Is there a Homeopathy co coming out with a new Covid treatment/solution/tablet?