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Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine

103 点作者 lukashed大约 11 年前

17 条评论

chrisbennet大约 11 年前
Whenever I hear about homeopathy I think of this wonder rant (&quot;Storm&quot;) by Tim Minchin : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U</a>
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eponeponepon大约 11 年前
This really ought to be hilarious; but then you realise that they&#x27;re talking about <i>penicillin</i>. If one batch of one type of snakeoil distributed by one pack of charlatans has turned out to contain an antibiotic, how many others do too? And how many people out there are merrily munching down a couple of homeopathic sugar-pills when their piles flare up and making amazing new antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains?<p>Homeopathy is <i>actively</i> harmful.
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ama729大约 11 年前
That&#x27;s something I don&#x27;t understand, how can homeopathic remedies even be sold? The manufacturer can&#x27;t prove the health benefits they claim and the product don&#x27;t contain the element on the bottle.<p>It&#x27;s just complete nonsense.
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Ihmahr大约 11 年前
I just keep being amazed that literate people buy this stuff. What also bugs me about this (apart from their stupidity) is that people look at me strangely when I decline &#x27;medicine&#x27; on the basis that it is homeopathic. The reaction is similar when someone is refusing to drink alcohol. &quot;Really, why not?&quot;
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MicroBerto大约 11 年前
When building our site&#x2F;engine, I struggled with what to do with product categories such as Homeopathy.<p>I find that much of it is <i>actively</i> harmful to users, especially when they truly need real medical care. It&#x27;s the <i>indirect</i> consequences (not seeing a real doctor for your ailments) that are far worse than the potential direct side effects.<p>But at the same time, people are searching for it, so they might as well get it from us &#x2F; through us.<p>So my solution was to write a negative analysis of the homeopathy category, drop it so that it can only be found if you are actively searching for it, and kind of never speak of it again.<p>Won&#x27;t spam, but you can see the link to my site in my profile if you care and search for the category.<p>At the end of the day, I do love the supplement&#x2F;nutrition industry, but this kind of stuff makes my blood boil.
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BuildTheRobots大约 11 年前
To everyone commenting on the insanity of homeopathy and how it has no scientific basis (which I don&#x27;t believe it does), I&#x27;d point out that surely it&#x27;s just a form of placebo -and placebos have been scientifically proven to work, even when you know about them [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo</a>
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userbinator大约 11 年前
I see this happen once in a while, and I&#x27;ve always believed that this is how they can keep the whole scam running - put some <i>real</i> medicine in them, so that it does have a beneficial effect, and the users will continue to preach about its efficacy. Add just enough to have a real effect, but e.g. not to all batches, so you don&#x27;t (easily) get caught.
aestra大约 11 年前
Not the first time this has happened. Zicam was marketed as homeopathy, but recalled because it had real active ingredients in it. (slightly diluted zinc acetate and zinc gluconate) They caused some people to lose their sense of smell.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zicam" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zicam</a>
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MattBearman大约 11 年前
I was really expecting this to the on The Onion...
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faster大约 11 年前
Did you hear about the homeopathic terrorists? They put nothing in the water supply.
cfontes大约 11 年前
I had an old math professor that used to say:<p>&quot;Lottery is a special tax aimed at people who are really bad in math&quot;<p>I guess Homeopathy is a tax (health and money one) for people who are really bad in Chemistry and Biology.
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singularityyy大约 11 年前
Does anyone know why homoeopathic remedies are so common in India? Even my very educated Indian friends seem to use them with a surprising frequency, sometimes over actual medicines.
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Argorak大约 11 年前
I am waiting for the moment where those people realize that a lot of food contains salicylates, acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin) among them. Just by habit of nature.<p>I lived with a person that had an intolerance (sometimes called &quot;asprine intolerance&quot;) and it is basically impossible to keep your diet free from that.[1]<p>[1]: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_intolerance#Treatment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Salicylate_intolerance#Treatmen...</a>
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k-mcgrady大约 11 年前
I just skimmed the article but I didn&#x27;t see any mention that the company was being punished for this. As someone allergic to penicillin that&#x27;s quite concerning. I&#x27;d never take homeopathic remedies but not only was this a stupid abuse of antibiotics it could hurt people.
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noja大约 11 年前
Why do so many homeopathic remedies contain ingredients? I mean they have multiple things listed on the label that are actual things. Doesn&#x27;t that make them not homeopathic?
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jacquesm大约 11 年前
I have this vague sense of unease about this...
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speeder大约 11 年前
The article ends as a crazy agressive criticism of homeopathy in general, mixing the issues of manufacturing that also happen to normal medicine with real concerns and conflating the two, but what really ticks me off is leaving in the closing paragraph a phrase that use age of a practice as an insult.<p>Saying that something should have been left in some old era implies that people of that era are inferior to us, the fact that all past eras are targeted, make me think there is some sort of superiority thinking tied to being in the current age, like if current humans are inherently better.<p>As someone that has some practices and beliefs that were actually more common in the past, I personally hear that sort of argument a lot, and I think lots people don&#x27;t realize that when they diss the past, they also diss lots of things important to them ( like, printing press... Created to print the bible no less... )<p>EDIT: alright, I get it, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, criticising the writing style of someone criticising something you dislike, even if I dislike it too, is reason to get blasted with downvotes.
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