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But they leave the homeopathic junk mixed in as if it was actual medicine.
by MBCook 3y ago
But they leave the homeopathic junk mixed in as if it was actual medicine.
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- DangitBobby 3y agoIt's usually seen as a bad thing when people are scammed out of money.
- ryandrake 3y agoFraud and deception should bother everyone, regardless of whether they are victims.
- woodruffw 3y agoI don’t think that’s what the OP is saying. They’re pointing out that it’s inconsistent for CVS to offer their stated rationale for phenylephrine while continuing to shelve homeopathics. Whether or not it’s personally bothersome doesn’t enter into it; the inconsistency is itself noteworthy.
- anikan_vader 3y agoNot sure why this comment is being downvoted? Placebo medication is known to have massive health benefits that go far beyond pain relief.
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- ekianjo 3y agoThis is a myth. Placebo effect is an invention. What you observe is return to the mean.
- Sebguer 3y agoMostly because these companies are very rarely letting people make an informed choice. Though, random homeopathic remedies in the store are far from the leading culprit for this.
- codezero 3y agobecause it's often the case that people don't know its homeopathic. I consider myself pretty smart but fell for Zicam marketing for quite a while. It matters because it can prevent people from seeking effective treatment, especially when they are placed on the same shelf as things that are vetted by the FDA.
- jeroenhd 3y agoThere's nothing wrong with buying homoeopathic tinctures if you like them, but putting them right next to medicine legitimises them for those who don't know any better. It's not like these tinctures are hand-crafted by some wise old shaman, they're mass produced by billion dollar companies profiting off the association with proven medicine. The confusion and misinformation is problematic, not the sale of the tinctures themselves.
- ekianjo 3y agoHomeopathic remedies should be labeled as "does not contain any active ingredient and was never ever proven to do anything."
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Homeopathic remedies should be labeled as "does not contain any active ingredient and was never ever proven to do anything." Only if they had the kind of quality control to assure that they were actually homeopathic dilutions. IIRC, a number have caused injury by having dangerous levels of their supposed “active ingredient” (“precursor” might be better for what it is supposed to be, I guess).
- jMyles 3y ago> homoeopathic tinctures I didn't even realize that homeopathic tinctures are a thing. Shame. I think of tinctures and homeopathy as opposite ends of the spectrum, but I guess the homeopathy people will profit on whatever they can.
- aidenn0 3y agoAside from the fact that CVS is implicitly approving of the remedies by having them on their shelves, my wife accidentally came home with a homeopathic product once because it was right next to non-homeopathic products for treating the same symptoms.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoWow
- zikduruqe 3y agoHomeopathic medicines are the horoscopes of the medicine world.
- cm2187 3y agoI am not sure why the downvote. It keeps hypochondriac people away from the medical system by giving them essentially placebos. Everyone is happy.
- tkzed49 3y agothis is hardly a "good" outcome--hypochondriacs _should_ be interacting with the medical system; the outcome should be mental health intervention.
- huytersd 3y agoNo, you have people that think those “placebos” are real medicine and end up killing their kids because of it.
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- cm2187 3y agoI am not aware that they do homeopathy for cancer treatment.
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- ars 3y agoHomeopathic stuff is placebo, that's what it is. And placebos work very well. Who cares if they are not medicines? Sometimes all you need a placebo. You should not discount just how effective placebos actually are! Although I do recognize the potential for fraud here - they disclaimers they put on there should be more prominent.
- huytersd 3y agoBecause people don’t know they’re “placebos” and use them as real medicines and you end up with dead kids. Homeopathy is probably one of the worst things to come out of Germany (yes, amongst other things even though I love you Germany).
- jameshart 3y agoHow do you know placebos work? You can’t do a randomized placebo controlled trial to test them.
- siegecraft 3y agoWhy not? Give a bunch of people actual placebos, half are told it won't work, half are told it will, see what happens?
- jameshart 3y agoWhich half is the placebo?
- ars 3y agoThe literature on the effectiveness of placebo's is extensive and not in doubt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Effects
- jameshart 3y agoConsidering that link points directly to a paragraph the says > A 2001 Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of the placebo effect looked at trials in 40 different medical conditions, and concluded the only one where it had been shown to have a significant effect was for pain.[14] That's because placebos do not appear to affect the actual diseases, or outcomes that are not dependent on a patient's perception I'd consider that a somewhat misleading citation for your assertion.
- ipqk 3y agoYes, this was half the article.