homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...mit-dont-work/
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a policy statement explaining that from now on, all over-the-counter (OTC) homeopathic drugs will have to come with a label clearly stating that they do not work.
Homeopathy is a type of pseudoscience that first became popular in the 18th century, and involves treating ailments with tiny amounts of the pathogen that caused the illness in the first place. These are then diluted to the point where the medicine contains one molecule of active ingredient for every 1,000 billion billion billion molecules of water. The solution is then either taken in liquid form or mixed with sugar and made into a pill.
Despite what homeopaths say and believe, there has never been any scientific evidence to support the idea that these treatments cure any kind of ailments, and recent studies have thoroughly debunked any claims that they work. On the contrary, many doctors are extremely concerned by homeopathy, as it is sometimes used instead of genuine medication for certain medical conditions.
Yet the jig appears to be up for homeopathy, after the FTC announced that it will finally start to enforce a regulation that it introduced way back in 1972, requiring all claims of product efficacy to be substantiated. Amazingly, it has never cracked down on the manufacturers of useless OTC drugs in the past, but has decided to toughen up following a recent workshop looking at how these products are marketed to consumers.
As a consequence, all homeopathic drugs will now have to come with a label clearly explaining that “there is no scientific evidence that the product works and [that] the product’s claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts.”
While this doesn’t mean that pharmacies will be required to stop selling homeopathic products, it should at least ensure that less consumers are duped into using them.
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Re: homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
The FTC Sucks!
But they can push drugs w/tons of (sometimes dangerous) side effects?
Oh, ok.
Re: homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
The best part about this is that pharmaceuticals have herbs as partial ingredients a lot of the time lol
Re: homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
I know y'all wanna hate on the FTC but science is science and studies that manufacturers are allowed to cite are highly controlled so you KNOW that medicine works. Yeah side effects blow but sometimes its a choice between being seriously sick/dying, or living while having a minor irritation or slight chance of something as a side effect.
Herbs and stuff definitely have medicinal properties but if they truly worked THAT WELL on their own, we would have seen people living to be 80 on average a lot sooner.
My beef with homeopathy is that it encourages people to eschew modern medicine and risk their lives, because of misinformation... We have friends that are ultra hippies like this and they drive me bonkers. They just had a baby and insisted on doing it at home with no medical personnel, just a "midwife", and came pretty close to the mother bleeding out because they refused to go to a hospital due to their hatred of 'big pharma' and fear of man-made drugs. They ended up having to call the EMTs anyway, who were peeved at the easily avoidable situation. I don't think they are vaxxing the kid either, which endangers other children as well... they want to do all this homeopathic shit instead. /endrant
Re: homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
Well, thanks for your view, Sel. I think that's wrong^, & I do believe in vaccinations!
Re: homeopathic drugs now have to have a notice on them that they dont actually work
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Velveteen.Rabbit
The best part about this is that pharmaceuticals have herbs as partial ingredients a lot of the time lol
Ahahahaaaha maybe as excipients but none that I can think of.
Selena is right but people love to shit on science.