I have never taken homeopathic medicine but I am fascinated by the placebo effect. It is one of the best researched effects (because most studies have a treatm

I have never taken homeopathic medicine but I am fascinated by the placebo effect. It is one of the best researched effects (because most studies have a treatment group just with placebo) with very real results. Homeopathy for some people just seems to be a good vehicle for tapping into placebo. So yes, even if you're 'smart' and 'educated' it pays to reap the benefits of that mechanism. It would be shortsighted to paint these people as lesser than. The irony is that people who feel compelled to discredit alternative approaches that have little scientific consensus are actually campaigning to take away an approach that works for some people, purely because it doesn't sit well with their beliefs. Different story, of course, is criticising the way alternative medicine is practised. I believe there is as much malpractice and fraud there as there is in mainstream medicine and the food industry, which is a pity. This story just points out a very troubling production problems. Worser still is that this is not unique to one homeopathic production company, you can find similarly outrageous problems in other industries as well.