Honesty in homeopathy - January 08, 2008
My attention has been drawn to an intriguing new company which promises “truthfulness in alternative medicine”. In their own words:
FairDeal Homeopathy is a company set up to provide you with effective* homeopathic remedies at a fair price. Unlike many homeopathic companies and practitioners, we won't lie to you either.
*Guaranteed as effective as all other homeopathic remedies.
Their products, they say, work through the placebo effect which is “still not fully understood, but is very effective for certain conditions† ... †Requires belief”. Once you fill in a form with your age, symptoms and “anything else you feel we should know” they’ll send you a remedy, for the very reasonable sum of £4.99.
The testimonials page – which the website says is designed for people to “spew vitriolic abuse” – has only one comment so far: “Your product arrived next day, and I was cured of my nasty headache within hours! Well done FairDeal Homeopathy - much better results than I'd get from those so-called ‘scientists’!”
OK, so this is probably a spoof, but it’s the best spoof I’ve seen so far this year.
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