Homeopathy: Witchcraft Is Not An Alternative

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

Most people outside of Quebec have probably never heard of Jean-René Dufort, a biochemistry graduate, science journalist and host of an hilarious political satire on Radio Canada. In 2004 in Belgium, after it had been announced that homeopathy would be covered by misinformed insurance companies, medical professors, a TV producer, a publicist, and ordinary citizens swallowed large quantities of over-the-counter homeopathic solutions based on lethal substances such as snake poison and deadly nighshade. Since homeopathic cures consist of highly diluted extracts, no one was harmed in the event that was publicized as a mass suicide. read more

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