[ikitat]

No.

Water can poison and kill you at a large enough dosage. Oxygen too. Treating cancer with homeopathy is harmless until the cancer kills you. All medicine (supported by science or not) carries some risk, the poison is in the dosage.

Woo practitioners are more than happy to bankrupt their victims, what's the harm?

A Milwaukee girl died of diabetes recently, her parents were trying to cure her with prayer.

[jff]

There's a difference between things that are generally harmless in their prescribed doses--water, aspirin, homeopathy BS--and the example given in the article, where the patient took the pills as specified and soon lost her kidneys, got cancer, and had a heart attack.

If the Wu practitioners are giving out lethal doses of their medicine, they should be crushed by the FDA.

[MaysonL]

The FDA doesn't have any jurisdiction in Britain.

[jff]

Forgot that this took place in Britain. I guess Her Majesty's Royal Tasters, or whatever their equivalent of the FDA is, would have to handle it.

[ikitat]

The FDA has the power to prosecute for unproven claims.

Regulating woo could give it more credibility.

[rsheridan6]

yet the FDA manages to regulate drugs for safety, regardless of the fact that dropping 10 tons of even the safest drug on your head results in a really nasty headache.