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Boots accused of selling quack medicines | Science | The Guardian

anticompany rated 5 months ago
Boots, the high street chemist, is becoming the country's largest seller of quack medicine, according to Britain's leading scientific expert on alternative therapies. Talking at the Hay literary festival today, Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, is t...

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beautyscientist rated 5 months ago
It really is time something was done about this load of old codswallop. It is a shame to see Boots giving it credibility.
anticompany rated 5 months ago
Boots, the high street chemist, is becoming the country's largest seller of quack medicine, according to Britain's leading scientific expert on alternative therapies. Talking at the Hay literary festival today, Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, is to criticise the company for selling alternative medicines, in particular more than 50 homeopathic remedies, which are shown by clinical trials to be no more effective than sugar pills. Boots, which has 1,500 stores across the UK, stocks 55 homeopathic therapies, 34 of which are sold under the company's own brand.