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Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:47 AM Jan 2013

US has no monopoly on snake oil merchants... [View all]

Homeopathic 'vaccine pills' should be withdrawn, says regulator
By Sam Smith
BBC Inside Out

A homeopathic pharmacy endorsed by Prince Charles and the Queen has been told to stop advertising sugar pills labelled as childhood vaccines.

The government's medicines regulator stepped in after an investigation by BBC Inside Out South West.
Homeopathic 'vaccine pills' should be withdrawn, says regulator
It found a number of homeopathic products on sale at specialist retailer Ainsworths labelled as vaccines or bearing the name of a childhood illness.

The programme also found evidence the company's owner Anthony Pinkus was prepared to recommend homeopathic pills to parents as an alternative to the whooping cough vaccination
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20991335

God save England FROM the Queen and that idiot Prince Charles...

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