Scientist gulps down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills to prove a point.

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In 2015, millions of people still buy into the 18th century claim that says heavily diluted medicine helps the body fight its own illness. While it’s clear that this archaic form of quackery doesn’t hold up to what we now know about physics and chemistry, it’s still widely disseminated to the public, bringing in millions of dollars to charlatans utilizing the cloak of the “alternative healing” industry.

From Medical Daily:

Homeopathic remedies rely on the false scientific notion that water somehow has a “memory,” and the more you dilute a medicine, the stronger that memory gets and the more potent the medicine becomes. But in cutting the active ingredient in a particular medicine, all you do is remove the important stuff. Homeopathic medicine does that until the medicine disappears, and it does it on purpose.

The Science Babe, or “SciBabe” for short, wanted to expose this practice for the bullsh*t that it is — by gulping down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills. She’s also started a petition on Change.org calling for companies like CVS Health and Walgreens to take homeopathic medicine off their shelves.

“People will still buy products from your stores,” the petition states, “but instead they’ll buy products that actually work with proven claims.”

http://deadstate.org/watch-scientist-gulps-down-50-homeopathic-sleeping-pills-to-prove-a-point/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. she could have swallowed 5000 of them and would have been fine.

If any woo drives me nuts, it is homeopathic woo. Pure placebo effect only if any relief is gained by using them - because there is essentially no "stuff" in them that could possibly do any good!

Just like that useless stuff with the insanely annoying commercial "Head On" - apply directly to the forehead."

[Xipe Totec]

3. She's doing it backwards - she needed to dilute it 50 times more to increase the effect

[Igel]

8. Exactly.

Dissolve it in a gallon of water, take a drop and put that in another gallon ...

Powerful stuff, that. (snort, LOL)

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2. An old James Randi routine.

--imm

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5. Randi the great!

Not sure which is cuter. SciBabe's dog or his bearded followers.

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4. Wow

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6. I never understood why medical insurance companies covered this crap in the first place.

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7. Good for her! nt

[hunter]

9. Not a good idea. Actual meds have been fond in "homeopathic" and "herbal supplements"

... produced by unscrupulous manufacturers worldwide, such as diphenyhdramine (Benadryl) in sleep aides, Viagra in herbal impotence remedies... those sorts of things.

People who are willing to scam people one way are likely to scam people another way.