I get railed against for my gripes against woo...

[Archae]

Then I see pictures like this, which came from a website posted in the Skeptics forum.

[SidDithers]

1. A fool and his money...

Anyone dumb enough to spend $16 on a bottle of water to protect themself from EMF, deserves to waste their money.

And shame on the multi-billion dollar nutraceutical industry for selling a product like this, to people too dumb to know that they're being scammed.

Sid

[Vashta Nerada]

2. Too much stupid in one picture!

At it's $16.05/oz!

[Archae]

3. Yup, "Doctor formulated" and "Scientifically tested"

Doctor of homeopathy?

Scientific standards of homeopathy?

[Vashta Nerada]

6. Who knew water can protect you from EMF!

Here, let me save some people some money. I'll start selling these at $5/bottle:

[mathematic]

4. Liver detox... 30% alcohol. elohel

"Organic" means "good for organs", right?

[ismnotwasm]

5. That liver detox one especially pisses me off.

Since I work in the field of transplant. Ignoring traditional medicine When having liver disease a good way to die a long, slow painful death with no dignity whatsoever

[The_Commonist]

7. What are the "active ingredients"?

Or is it just water and alcohol?

[Archae]

8. Since it's homeopathic...

Yes. That's all it is.

[morningfog]

16. It seems that there are some "Active Ingredients" not included in the pictures.

I'm not saying they will redeem this product, but I don't think what you said is accurate.

[morningfog]

17. Here:

Active ingredients:
Bryonia 200C, carduus mar 1X, chelidonium maj 200C, liver extract 6X, taraxacum 1X

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/liddell-laboratories-liver-detox-spray-1-fl-oz-liquid?SourceCode=INTL405&CAWELAID=1331623120&mkwid=gmNaqrXz&pcrid=49285710727&gclid=CNbQpvyg3r0CFWEV7AodcF4ASQ

[eShirl]

18. wow, when did Swanson start selling homeopathic stuff?

I guess the profit to be made off it was too tempting to pass up

[intaglio]

21. The one you are quoting is for the liver remedy not the EMF detox

but for those confused

Bryonia 200C - Bryony extract, an emetic and laxative with side effects. From WebMD

Bryonia is UNSAFE for anyone to use. At fairly low doses, it can cause many side effects including dizziness, vomiting, convulsions, colic, bloody diarrhea, abortion, nervous excitement, and kidney damage. Larger doses may cause fatal poisoning in adults and children. Just touching fresh bryonia can cause skin irritation. Eating the berries can cause death.

but don't worry at 200C dilution your chances of encountering even one molecule of this poison in this formulation is less than 1 in 10^30

Carduus Marianus 1X - Milk thistle extract, this and taraxacum may be the only ingredients that have any effect though it is far from certain if it has any pharacological effect at all. The 1X dilution (10:1 water to ingredient) it is not homeopathic in effect anyway (typically 30C is the lowest homeopathically "effective" dilution)

Chelidonium majus 200C - Greater Celandine sometimes called tetterwort in Europe, has a mild analgesic effect but your chance of encountering even 1 molecule in the dilution used? See my note on bryony. Note for amateur herbalists who want to experiment - don't, celandine sap can cause contact dermatitis.

Liver extract - What chemicals have been extracted? Frock knows, a meaningless term but only one part in a million is present in the formulation so probably harmless.

Taraxacum - Dandelion, what the French call "Pis en lit" which is descriptive of it's effect. Very minor at a 10 to 1 dilution.

[pugetres]

9. Alcohol? To detox the liver??

But, I did note that it was organic etoh. That makes it all good.

[longship]

10. "Organic" and "natural" are nothing more than marketing terms.

Lots of things are organic that one should not take into ones body. The Ebola virus is organic.

Arsenic is natural.

Silly, uneducated people believe this shit.

[MattBaggins]

12. I LoL'ed at that. Organic alcohol? WTF?

[longship]

13. Yeast is our friend.

Consumes sugar. Excretes alcohol.

Beer goes back many millennia. It's a good thing, too.

[MattBaggins]

14. It is by very definition "organic"

What would half the people around here do if they ever opened an organic chemistry textbook?

[longship]

19. Glossed eyes. The homeopaths would drown themselves in their nostrums to cure the "science".

Or maybe just die of alcohol poisoning.

[MattBaggins]

11. Damn it that demands better regulation

What the fuck is scientific homeopathic methodology?

Fucking oxymoron

[eShirl]

15. 60 proof, at $16.05 per ounce

here you go, liver!

[closeupready]

20. Trashing thread.

[Walk away]

22. What is wrong with me that I don't just put out a line of this crap and make some easy money...

off of the nitwits who buy it? I never realized until "this week in DU" just how gullible the Homeopathy crowd is. All of the scientific proof in the world can't convince them that....IT'S JUST WATER!!!

I would normally think that making money that way is wrong, but it would be fun to sell a homeopathic elixir for increasing peoples ability to think critically. Talk about laughing all the way to the bank.

[LadyHawkAZ]

23. Only 40 proof???

For the same price, my bottle of vodka offers better protection! Cheapskates!

[Jim Lane]

24. At least they're telling the truth about "No known side effects."

No known main effects, either, but at least it won't cause birth defects or the like.