{"id":648454,"date":"2010-01-29T18:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001364"},"modified":"2010-01-29T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:18:42","slug":"mass-homeopathic-overdose-planned-for-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648454","title":{"rendered":"Mass Homeopathic Overdose Planned For Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/012910-004-pills-thumb-300x215-36490.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>In a little less than 12 hours, over 300 skeptics throughout the U.K. will protest the homeopathic medicine industry there by deliberately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/homoeopathy-sceptics-plan-mass-overdose-1875453.html\">overdosing on full bottles of homeopathic pills<\/a>, which technically don&#8217;t contain any molecules of the active ingredient. The group&#8217;s goal is to highlight the fact that homeopathic cures are about as scientifically valid as your horoscope. I&#8217;m all for stunts, but don&#8217;t they know that they&#8217;ll likely suffer from the <i>memory<\/i> of an OD? That&#8217;s how this stuff works, you know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1023.org.uk\/the-1023-overdose-event.php\">1023.org.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/homoeopathy-sceptics-plan-mass-overdose-1875453.html\">&#8220;Homoeopathy sceptics plan mass &#8216;overdose'&#8221;<\/a> [The Independent via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/88593\/Dont-drink-the-extremely-diluted-KoolAid\">Metafilter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little less than 12 hours, over 300 skeptics throughout the U.K. will protest the homeopathic medicine industry there by deliberately overdosing on full bottles of homeopathic pills, which technically don&#8217;t contain any molecules of the active ingredient. The group&#8217;s goal is to highlight the fact that homeopathic cures are about as scientifically valid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IGW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}