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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,046 posts)
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 05:02 PM 4 hrs ago

Homeopathy isn't medicine. Why is this pharmacy school pretending it is?

Julian Sanchez
‪@normative.bsky.social‬
So a pharmacists’ college is now offering a course in the nonsense pseudoscience of homeopathy… funded by a manufacturer of homeopathic products. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/homeopathy...

Homeopathy isn’t medicine. Why is this pharmacy school pretending it is?
The University of the Pacific’s Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy is embracing 18th-century nonsense, funded by the very people who profit from it.
www.friendlyatheist.com
9:59 AM · Dec 24, 2025

So a pharmacists’ college is now offering a course in the nonsense pseudoscience of homeopathy… funded by a manufacturer of homeopathic products. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/homeopathy...

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) 2025-12-24T14:59:12.824Z


paulmadsen.bsky.social
‪@paulmadsen.bsky.social‬

Getting a degree requires you attend only 0.000000001% of classes.
10:06 AM · Dec 24, 2025

Getting a degree requires you attend only 0.000000001% of classes.

(@paulmadsen.bsky.social) 2025-12-24T15:06:52.636Z
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Homeopathy isn't medicine. Why is this pharmacy school pretending it is? (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 4 hrs ago OP
I got a lifetime of homeopathic medicine EYESORE 9001 4 hrs ago #1
Introducing future pharmacists to this woo may not be a bad idea Brother Buzz 3 hrs ago #2
Some hospitals and clinics are blending Western & Eastern medicine Iwasthere 3 hrs ago #3

Brother Buzz

(39,519 posts)
2. Introducing future pharmacists to this woo may not be a bad idea
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 05:46 PM
3 hrs ago

My drug store currently sells nonprescription Homeopathy stuff, and pharmacists might be better prepare to answer questions about it in an honest fashion if they knew more about it.

Iwasthere

(3,480 posts)
3. Some hospitals and clinics are blending Western & Eastern medicine
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:32 PM
3 hrs ago

It's a good thing. Many doctors are exploring adding less invasive, less dangerous options. Antibiotics have been their go to and now they're seeing that superbugs have reached a critical threshold that Antibiotics (Western medicines only solution) can no longer touch.

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