Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots

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dave clarkson Feb 4, 2010 23:45:52
Replying to Hunter T Wolfe

"There's a lot wrong with the medical industry- vested interests and all that- and it's in the interests of this powerful and well-funded lobby to discredit homeopathy wholesale. It gets a negative press generally anyway, and I guess that's why I feel the need to put the other side of the story when something like this comes up.2

What other side of the story?

It's in the interest of pharma suppliers to embrace homeopathic medicines, not discredit them. Mistrust of conventional medicines and an increase in consumer choice has had a shift in favour towards homeopathic stuff. There's nothing 'alternative' about complementary medicines - they are very 'pop' in the pharma world and big business. Boots would be stupid not to get involved!

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H Hunter T Wolfe
Hunter T Wolfe Feb 5, 2010 13:07:29
Replying to dave clarkson

Of the top of my head I'm thinking of natural herbal remedies that can't be copyrighted and branded- although there have been moves to do just that, or to ban their use entirely. Of course if there's a potential profit in the 'alternative' sector than the big business side will move in and co-opt it - same in medicine as in music. It's where homeopathy suggests that you don't actually need profitable branded drugs- especially things like anti-depressants- and that symptoms can be countered by changes in lifestyle and in taking natural remedies, that it would be seen as dangerous and subversive.

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