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Deepinder Cheema wrote:
Perhaps they are on the cusp of placebo or coincidence. I've been told they have worked on Animals. I'm rather relaxed about it.

The woman in my avatar is receiving a medal from JFK for kicking Thialidomide off the shelves. It led to the reason why since 1961 there are exhaustive clinical trials

Trials on proper medicine. Complementary medicine is horribly under tested. It is checked that it does no harm, but not that it works. Still how could it? It is mainly water - might quench your thirst, but wont cure oure your cancer.

What I really hate about it are the charlatans peddling false hope to ill people and cashing in on misery.

"What I really hate about it are the charlatans peddling false hope to ill people and cashing in on misery."

I guess Boots realised they could be accused of precisely that so to preserve their corporate respectability they decided to admit it.

Of course, they know that desperate people won't believe them and will continue to buy the stuff. So now they are self-confessed profit seekers peddling what they ADMIT is false hope to ill people and cashing in on misery.