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Old 06-12-2009, 11:48 AM   #15
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Yep. Looks like a small percentage of the remedies actually work. Just like pharmaceuticals. I applaud the government for bothering to check.
And now that they've checked, what will happen to the "alternative medicines" that failed the test? I'm guessing that ginger for chemo is not a significant percentage of their business.

When Lily advertises a drug for something that studies have found it has no effect on, it is a scandal, and rightly so. It should be an even bigger scandal for the "alternative medicine" industry, for whom that is the business model. Lily could have put Zyprexa in the herbal remedy aisle with a few testimonials and they wouldn't have needed to do any testing in the first place.
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