Witchdoctors looking for Chch fix

In times of disaster, the quacks and charlatans come out. And I don’t just mean the Earthquake Commission. Turns out the fricking homeopaths have also been out ambulance-chasing.

The New Zealand Council of Homeopaths has stated that homeopathic products "may greatly help children, animals and adults feeling frightened and unable to sleep from the Christchurch earthquake.”

Be pretty astonishing if products promised to contain nothing but water could do anything for them beyond making their lips wet.  Fortunately, Dr Shaun Holt is on to what the British Medical Association recently called “witchcraft.”

“Having previously targeted people with HIV and cancer, homeopaths are now chasing people who have been traumatized by an earthquake with their quack potions - it is shocking", said Professor Holt. He quoted the example of the homeopathic product "Berlin wall" to illustrate his point. "Homeopaths will take some dust from the Berlin Wall, dilute it until none remains, and then sell it to help people who feel repressed".
    Professor Holt agrees with the British Medical Association's recent statement that homeopathy was witchcraft. "Making health claims about products with no active ingredient, and targeting the most vulnerable, is in my view fraudulent and unethical."