I wonder if it will affect their like-for-like sales figures tee hee.

How strange... Homeopathy is definitely a 'lefty-liberal' thing in this country.

I think it's all a load of crap, myself. However, it's no myth that a great deal of what constitutes healing hinges on one's mental state, so if people want to believe in it, I'm not going to tell them different.

My mother, who's a pretty rational, no-nonsense person, swears by things like acupuncture and magnets in the treatment of her aches and pains.

I certainly wouldn't argue that Western medicine is beyond reproach... so much of it is designed to wait until people get chronically ill and then charge a fortune to merely hold the symptoms of disease at bay. And a lot of what the pharmaceutical companies push on us in the name of 'science' is fucking toxic... just listen to the list of side effects that go along with almost any new 'wonder drug' that they produce.

I'm going to stick my head above the parapet here.

I never trusted homeopathic medecine due to the scientific arguments already mentioned here. However, I have a very good (and intelligent) friend who suffers from a very serious condition (I won't go into details here as it is another's health I'm talking about). For some years now homeopathic remedies have provided her with the only relief she has been able to get - conventional medecine did nothing for her. Apparently for her it really works, and in ways that it is hard to fit in with the placebo effect. real, physical differences.

I was as cynical as the rest of you until this. Now I'm really not so sure. Could it possibly be that there is something going on here that science has yet to suss out?

Feelings as to whether this stuff works or not aside, Boots don't exactly sell them beside the 'pharamcy counter 'stuff.

If Boots were stocking them beside Nurophen, for example, and claiming them as like for like, then that would be a different thing altogether. I am sure it would also be highly illegal.

But they're not doing that, are they?

People will as readily go to Holland and Barrat, or wherever sells the stuff, so why just protest against 'Boots' I wonder?

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Protesting against homeopathy?!? It strikes me as a bit too much like The Wild One: What you rebelling against? Whaddya got? Well this week we've got homeopathy...

Admittedly, Simon Singh does make some intersting points but I don't think anyone who visits an actual homeopath and takes their advice about immunization and malaria is likely to go "Oh Boots have stopped selling tincture of sponglewort so I guess homeopathy must be bad."

If homeopaths are giving medical advice that they are not qualified to give then that should be addressed but I can't see the planned protest doing much more than making some shoppers tell their friends that they saw a nutter in Boots swallowing some herbal drugs

I wouldn't step foot into Boots even if you paid me.

Haven't shopped in there since I was 15.