Comments on: Homeopathy and the FDA https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/homeopathy-and-the-fda/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Trebuchet https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/homeopathy-and-the-fda/#comment-17053 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:58:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=985#comment-17053 As noted in the very first comment on Rebecca’s blog, the FDA can’t do anything about homeopathy because they’re forbidden by law from doing so. Most FDA employees would probably LOVE to take homeopathy (and the “supplements” industry) down a notch or three, but they can’t. Don’t blame the FDA, blame Congress.

]]> By: Monado, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/homeopathy-and-the-fda/#comment-17052 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:52:59 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=985#comment-17052 Yay, I blogged this too, just by happenstance. No, I Facebooked it. I don’t know that the FDA *can* ban anything just because it’s probably ineffective. For one thing they can’t prove a negative. Perhaps they could require a big fat disclaimer that said there was no evidence of any curative value. Or require the physical ingredients only to be listed, e.g. water, sugar.

]]> By: C. S. https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/homeopathy-and-the-fda/#comment-17051 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:26:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=985#comment-17051 Does the FDA actually have the legal authority to do what they’re asking? Maybe the petition should instead be to congress to give them that authority.

]]> By: Kiwi Sauce https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/homeopathy-and-the-fda/#comment-17050 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:14:27 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=985#comment-17050 By a convoluted series of links from the comments on Rebecca’s site, I got to this sketch about the bible on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFsEQVyyzE4&feature=related

I get lost in YouTube for hours…

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