Homeopathic everything should be removed from the market.
James Randi was amazing on the topic for people who don't understand the problem:
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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It utterly boggles the mind that it's legal to sell homeopathic products. The word scam comes to mind, but it's so much worse than that because it's a scam that doesn't merely do nothing; it actually causes harm by confusing people and causing general distrust of actual treatments.
Labeling doesn't help either. Apparently the FTC understands the general public is dumb enough that we need "don't drink this" labels on bleach, but they credit them with being able to see through the confusing mumbo-jumbo that homeopathic products put on their labels to disguise the fact that it's just water.
In fairness... have you seen Fabuloso bottles? :)
That was the first product that made me want to post in the forbidden snacks community back in the dark years
Mmmm! Jungle juice and Covid cure all in one!
yummie joose :3
Sweet Jesus that looks good. I want to use it as a cleanser after eating tide pods.
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If homeopathy had a different name it wouldn't be nearly as popular. People see it and they think "Oh, it's a home remedy because it says HOMEopathic."
There's plenty of home remedies that are at least marginally effective against colds: Hot water with honey, ginger, and lemon, for example. But homeopathy is not that. It's diluting something over and over again until there's nothing left of the original substance, and then selling it to gullible and/or desperate people like it's going to work.
Yup, and people see the "ingredients" listed as 6x, 8x, 10x and don't realize that's how many times it's been diluted.
It's desperately popular in France (Boiron is French) and home doesn't sound the same at all.
It's diluting something over and over again until there's nothing left of the original substance, and then selling it to gullible and/or desperate people like it's going to work.
It's crazy, like, a child can see right through that, yet you have millions of desperate adults falling for and hawking that obvious bullshit everywhere. It's really sad.
Shouldn’t ALL homeopathic “medicine” be pulled?
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I swear I just heard drew screaming from atop a building somewhere.
Probably, but I'd wager it's a timesaving way to treat hypochondriacs.
And potentially lifesaving but it doesn't address the core issue and makes a ton of profits for crooks instead of funding actual research
Some "homeopathic medicine" is just food tho
I think you're confusing natural medicine with homeopathy. Homeopathy is straight nonsense, always.
No, they just need to stop making claims that they help
Just label that shit for what it is: bottled water.
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The fact that you can get around seemingly every FDA reg by just putting "this product not endorsed by the FDA" in tiny text in a corner of the packaging makes me wonder why we even have the FDA. If the laws were serious they'd make it so that you can not sell anything for human consumption that isn't approved.
I grew up with some of this stuff. We went through a raw milk phase, putting "This product not for human consumption" in big letters on the label it's not the obstacle you think it is, if anything it's more enticing to a certain type of person.
The kind of person who overdoses on bovine/equus de-wormer?
That is not true. You can make vague claims and have a disclaimer, think "promotes gut health" but you can't claim you cure cancer. The FDA will come after you.
That is incorrect, if you read up on the history of "patent drugs" (cure-alls) and the creation of the FDA you'll understand that there's an extremely fine line faux "medication" has to follow or risk being pulled from the market. For example you have to list the ingredients and you can't make claims that your product will cure illness, you can however make vauge claims of health improvements.
The world of quack medicine has vastly improved since the FDA's creation as most patent drugs of the time were some mix of opium, cocaine, and alcohol being sold as other made up miracle substances.
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I work in a lab that often tests these types of things. I can tell you with certainty: STAY THE FUCK AWAY! DO NOT USE!
Bro can't just drop a warning like that and not explain further
The people in charge of testing for contamination have no idea what they are doing. I have a limited view of this, but from what I've seen they don't know what they need to test for. They don't have proper procedures in place of they get a positive test. Lastly they don't seem to have proper monitoring of their facilities to begin with.
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Because they are empty or because they are full of contaminants?
It's both because homeopathic remedies are pretty much useless and the people that make them have no business being anywhere near things people put in their bodies.
I read it wrong,
Every homophobic eye drop should be pulled off the market
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
I was all ready to be upset at eyedrop manufacturers for being homophobic and now I'm upset at them for a whole different reason. Very destabilizing.
Its easy to call out homeopathic medicine as frauds stealing from fools. Same with chiropractors and anti-vaxers. But what we need to acknowledge that the adversarial, inaccessible, rapacious, and Kafkaesque medical systems in Western countries, especially America alienate people and drive them toward this crap.
Mistrust of pharma, hospitals, doctors, and the health department is not irrational.
Much as I like Arstechnica, this was one of the worse articles I've read there in a while. It's based off of this bullitin.
The author seems to have taken this:
Do not use ophthalmic products that:
- Are marketed as OTC products to treat serious eye conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, retinopathy or macular degeneration. There > are no OTC treatments for these conditions.
- Are labeled as homeopathic, as these products should not be marketed.
And then the author seemed to imply that ALL eye drops are homeopathic and should be pulled, which is not quite what the FDA was saying.
edit: I hit post before I had finished typing when I had intended to hit preview to check my markdown. edit: And then I missed the typos anyhow. Screw it. Send it.
Are you sure? Neither title nor article appear to suggest such a thing.
After referencing previous scary eye drop news:
No one should ever use any homeopathic ophthalmic products, and every single such product should be pulled off the market.
The point is unexpected, given that none of the high-profile infections and recalls this year involved homeopathic products.
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