[briandear]

I can’t say homeopathy is at the same level as tobacco, but it is a fraud and unethical to push vials of water as medicine. French pharmacies make a killing selling these fake medicines. What’s unethical is that, in France, actual pharmacists promote that crap. It’s literally a placebo that they are claiming “works.” You could take an entire store’s worth of homeopathic remedies and you’d have nothing more than a full stomach. If they want to sell that stuff, they should put a label on it that says: “absolutely no active ingredients of any sort, this is just a product to make you feel as if you took actual medicine.”

[colejohnson66]

> You could take an entire store’s worth of homeopathic remedies and you’d have nothing more than a full stomach.

You could also get better. The placebo effect is a real thing. People wouldn’t fall for the snake oil if it never “worked.”

[stallmanite]

So preachers selling holy water as cancer cures are being ethical then? Come on

[colejohnson66]

Did I say that? No. Notice how I used the words “snake oil”? I was making a point about the placebo effect. Nothing else.