{"id":259237,"date":"2010-02-01T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2010-02-01T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:48:40","slug":"homeopathy-overdosing-on-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259237","title":{"rendered":"Homeopathy: Overdosing On Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Robbins for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527455.800-homeopathy-overdosing-on-nothing.html\">New Scientist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic &#8220;overdose&#8221;. Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the sceptics will swallow 84 pills of arsenicum album, a homeopathic remedy based on arsenic which is used to treat a range of symptoms, including food poisoning and insomnia.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the &#8220;10:23&#8243; campaign, led by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk\/\">Merseyside Skeptics Society<\/a>, based in Liverpool, UK, is to raise public awareness of just exactly what homeopathy is, and to put pressure on the UK&#8217;s leading pharmacist, Boots, to remove the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Robbins for New Scientist: AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic &#8220;overdose&#8221;. Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}