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Sunday, 3 November 2019

Homeopaths offer to rebrand products as 'confectionery' | Martin Robbins | Science | The Guardian

Skeptics have been explaining that lactose or sucrose pilules are sweeties, not medicine, so it's nice to see the homeopaths in agreement with reality for once:
Faced with an MHRA crackdown on unlicensed medicines, one of Britain's leading manufacturers of homeopathic remedies has indicated it would be prepared to relabel its products 'confectionery' to circumvent regulation

Read the full report: Homeopaths offer to rebrand products as 'confectionery' | Martin Robbins | Science | The Guardian

Please note: we can no longer recommend Quackometer as a skeptic blog, due to its espousal of anti-LGBT propaganda. However, there are plenty of good skeptic blogs out there, starting with the lovely (and amazingly polite, given the aggro & ignorance she regularly encounters) Jo Brodie's Stuff That Occurs to Me.