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Homeopathy: Overdosing on nothing

By Martin Robbins

27 January 2010

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Homeopathy can be hard to swallow

(Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty)

Update: Hundreds of people around the world took part in the homeopathic “overdose” on Saturday. No one died.

AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic “overdose”. Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.

Many of the sceptics will swallow 84 pills of arsenicum album, a homeopathic remedy based on…

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