UK skeptics plan mass homeopathic overdose

A British group calling itself 10-23* will stage a mass self-inflicted overdose of homeopathic remedies to protest the Boots pharmacy chain's continued sale of the worthless** nostrums. At 10:23 a.m., January 30, 300 protesters will down a whole bottle of homeopathic pills each. The joke is that homeopathic mixtures have been diluted so many times, they no longer contain any of the original putative active ingredient. From an open letter to the Boots chain: The majority of people do not have the time or inclination to check whether the scientific literature supports the claims of efficacy made by products such as homeopathy....