MAXg on Saturday, February 5 can not miss Homeopathic Overdose Mass in Mexico City :
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PD 30, nero, 2011 . Via Free think I hear that already the press release OF AREA (also in PDF ):
Consumers in Mexico made an "overdose" homeopathic
rights activists consumers in Mexico, today announced their intention to be part of an "overdose" massive homeopathic in February, as part of a global protest against the alternative remedies.
Protesters in Mexico City will take whole bottles of homeopathic pills on February 5, 2011 at 10:23 am, outside of the Federal Health Ministry (Liège No. 7, Col. Juárez, DF) in an attempt to increase public awareness of the fact that the "remedies" homeopathic NOT effective, exerting pressure in pharmacies and health providers to ensure that products are sold as medical treatments actually work.
The representative of the group, Adam Lerma, said: "Most people do not know how the pills or homeopathic pills are made. A pill containing no active ingredient whatsoever because they are so dilute that it is almost impossible to find a single molecule of active ingredient in each pill. Pharmacies homeopaths and the Ministries of Health should not support these treatments useless, as they are a waste of time and money "
The event is being organized by a group of skeptics in the Federal District as part of the campaign 10:23 (1 ), a global protest against the homeopathic remedies that originated in the UK. Similar events will take place in more than a dozen countries around the world have announced protests in Germany, Hungary, Australia and Canada.
Michael Marshall, co-organizer of the international campaign, said: "We try to show that there is a feeling increasingly large around the world that has already spent too much money and time in these homeopathic remedies.
In the two hundred years that these treatments have existed, has never been anything to prove it works, and like nothing more than water and sugar, not even possible to do things that they say they can do homeopaths .
Billions of dollars are spent worldwide every year in these remedies are not effective, and, when explaining what they are and how they are made, most people are surprised that such treatment is futile to continue to sell the unsuspecting public .
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campaign was launched last year in the United Kingdom with nearly 400 protesters across the country, who participated in the "overdose" after a major pharmacies in the country admitted that the pills are sold only because consumers buy them, not because they are effective. (2). The campaign has been named the "number of Avogadro, a scientific constant that can be used to show that homeopathic potions contain no active ingredient.
Although some may argue that the sale and promotion is harmless sugar pills, pharmacy support and health care providers such homeopathic potions have terrible consequences. In addition to undermining public confidence in medicine and medical advice, patients with serious conditions may avoid seeking medical care in the belief that homeopathy can treat your condition.
An investigation by the BBC in January 2011 revealed that homeopaths are willing to offer "treatment" ineffective homeopathic travelers and tourists instead of real medicine against malaria (4) and ineffective homeopathic alternatives other life-saving vaccines (5). 10:23
The campaign is organizing protests in 23 cities in 10 countries on 5 February 2011.
Notes for editors:
[1] 10:23 The campaign is a network of groups of skeptics who seeks to raise awareness about the truth of homeopathy, how we know it works and why it is important that patients have the information adequate to enable them make informed decisions about their health. Http://www.1023.org.uk/ (article)
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230925/Boots-sells-homeopathic-remedies- theyre-popular-work.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant
[4] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes newsnight/9341713.stm [5] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11280578
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