Boots, the high street chemist, is becoming the country's largest seller of quack medicines, failing to notify customers that their homeopathic remedies contain no active ingredients and are ineffective in clinical trials, according to Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University.
My daughter goes 'quack' a lot, but that's because she's 16 months old and infatuated with ducks. You expect an infant to babble nonsense. You do not expect it from high street chemists.
What happens if you go into Boots and ask one of their pharmacists for a homeopathic remedy for malady X? Do they actually advise you that it's no better than doing fuck all? In fact, do they advise you that fuck all would be better than taking the pill, because the pill's made of sugar..?
I'm very disapointed to hear this is going on and may have to investigate. Watch this space.
The worst of it is that I've married into a family containing a Google-able homeopath. I've always bitten my tongue when she's around.
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