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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Homeopathy kills
Here is a story from Australia of two well educated parents who believed in homeopathy, with the consequence that their infant daughter died of preventable eczema, after weeks of excruciating pain. The parents have been sent to jail, the Judge giving the unrepentant father -who insisted in declaring homeopathy superior to "Western medicine" even after the tragedy - the maximum allowable sentence of eight years. Sometimes there is indeed justice in this world.
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