CFI Sues Walmart for Selling Snake Oil
Homeopathy lies, as Stephen Fry recently put it, “at the bottom of the abyss of pseudoscience.” Fry calls it “the silliest of all the snake oils.” Nonetheless, major drug retailers sell useless homeopathic fake medicine right alongside evidence-based treatments, making no distinction between the junk and the real thing. That’s why the Center for Inquiry sued CVS for fraud last year, all the while knowing that the fight didn’t stop there.
Last week, CFI filed a consumer fraud suit against Walmart, the largest retailer there is, for their sale and marketing of homeopathic fake medicine, calling it an “incredible betrayal of customers’ trust and an abuse of their titanic retail power.”
Fast Company magazine got the exclusive scoop on the lawsuit at the time it was filed, running a feature on our efforts and the lack of evidence to support the claims of homeopathy’s proponents. On Saturday morning, CFI Vice President and Legal Counsel Nick Little was interviewed about the suit by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition and on The Skeptic Zone podcast with Richard Saunders.
Stay tuned for more developments on this suit and our ongoing case against CV
https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/walmart-sued-for-fraud-homeopathy/
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