Homeopathy's Ineffectiveness Saves Lives

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Hundreds of people owe their lives to the fact that homeopathy is completely ineffective. This past weekend, groups of people around the world participated in an event that, at first glance, may seem sinister or even cult-like.

They gathered in 25 countries (in an event known as "The 10:23 Campaign") and took massive overdoses of medication -- not to harm themselves, but to prove a point. No one suffered ill effects because the medications were homeopathic, have no active ingredients, and are therefore worthless. Real drugs of proven efficacy can be dangerous or lethal in high enough doses; homeopathic remedies cannot.

This is not the first time that someone has tried to overdose on homeopathic medications. In January 2010 Alexa Ray Joel (daughter of Billy Joel) tried to overdose on a homeopathic medication in an apparent suicide attempt. She, also, was just fine.

http://news.discovery.com/human/homeopathys-ineffectiveness-saves-lives.html

[laconicsax]

1. Rec!

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[laconicsax]

3. It should be pointed out that an extreme overdose on homeopathic 'medicine' is sometimes known as...

drowning.

[LibertyFox]

4. I get the feeling

I shouldn't find this as hilarious as I do.

If I was a comedian I could probably get about a dozen jokes out of this.