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[backscatter712]

92. There's the harm.

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My mom told me about one of her friends - she was diagnosed with cancer, got scared of the conventional treatments like chemotherapy, and went to a homeopath.

For months, she took expensive sugar pills, and drank expensive vials of water. Unfortunately, placebos don't work on cancer, and she died.

And it was a horrible, tragic death, and a senseless and possibly preventable death. Because some snake-oil salesman preyed upon this woman's fear, pulled her away from the science-based treatments that could have saved her, or eased her suffering, or prolonged her life or maybe given her a few more good years of life; and instead fleeced her of her money by selling her sugar pills.

So yes, I'm going to speak loudly about homeopathy, and give it the contempt it deserves!