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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