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Homeopathic Remedies Recalled For Containing Real Medicine

Posted by timothy on from the fake-fake-vs-real-fake dept.

ananyo (2519492) writes "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled homeopathic remedies made by a company called Terra-Medica because they may contain actual medicine — possibly penicillin or derivatives of the antibiotic." Diluted enough times with pure water, though, maybe these traces would be even more powerful.

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  1. Re:Sarcasm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it's not sarcasm! It's the gospel truth in how it works!
    FREE XENU!

  2. That's okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Diluted humor is funnier to those who actually get it.

    1. Re:That's okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Humoropathic remedies?

    2. Re:That's okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whoosh fulfillment.

  3. First Post! Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least it would have been if all of the other posts before this one had been diluted enough.

  4. Wonder if there was a freak out. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    by those who were using this quack remedy?

    I can almost hear the screams of terror when the news was announced:

    "WHAT?! There's REAL medicine in this? Holy shit, that stuff will kill me!"

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  5. Re:Sarcasm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    > And if you don't believe in homeopathy, there is no point in buying the medication in the first place.

    So homeopathy is one of those things that requires faith to work? Very scientific indeed.

  6. Oblig. Mitchell and Webb video by ilsaloving · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:Homeopothy ... by qazsedcft · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it's been drunk by at least one dinosaur too.

  8. Re:+5 Funny for TFS by Maria_Celeste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agree. Sometimes the glass is 1/2^1,000,000 full.

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  9. Re:Homeopathic principles by CauseBy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pfft. Whatevs. You guys both missed the point which is that homeopaths "tap the bottle". That's how it works, with the tapping. Sheesh, you guys are ignorant.

  10. Re:Homeopathic principles by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or both.

    Question: How can a homeopath do it right?

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