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by sneak 1001 days ago
Walgreens sells homeopathic products on the shelf right next to real medicine.

The NHS and German public health systems pay public money for homeopathic fake remedies.

(To their credit the NHS has reduced the practice.)

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This can be effective; a lot of medicines have experimental evidence saying they don't work, because they aren't better than placebo, but the reason for this is that the placebo works too.