I'm sure it causes a lot of bad things to happen to people too.

>"Marshall says that cases in which trusting vulnerable consumers have believed the claims of homeopaths and "forgone real medicine" in place of "these overpriced sugar pills" are "too numerable to count" and "often with unnecessary and tragic consequences."

I knew someone who took homeopathic remedies instead of going to a doctor and she nearly died (saved by actual doctors). She still believes in homeopathic remedies....

One who actually died of this BS was Steve Jobs.

If you are to blame homeopathy for the death of Steve Jobs, might I remind you that he was the person who chose to pursue such quackery?

Personally if you were to ask me about his death, i'd blame the cancer for killing him, not the 'science' he investigated in an effort to fix the problem.

Of course it was the cancer that killed him, however by using homeopathy as a cure it certainly fasten the process by not actually curing him.

But I don't hate cancer, it's a natural thing, but I do hate homeopathy because it's 100% man made quackery.

If one of my relatives died sooner because they had been let to believe to use this nonsense I definite blame the salesman of scamming my relative of money, trust and a longer life.

It is the same as the Christian church in the middle ages selling salvation for money to dying people. Despicable.

Jobs had a relatively benign cancer that has something like a 90% survival rate. Jobs's case was not unusually deadly, and there is every reason to think he would have been cured if he had received proper treatment reasonably soon after being diagnosed.

It goes beyond simply wishing he hadn't died, too. He managed to finagle a healthy liver transplant in the process, which might have gone to someone with a better chance of surviving with it longer.

> However it is probably a very good placebo for people who believe in it,

OK, but then placebo shouldn't be allowed to make medicine-like claims.

And in the process, killing people it's not helping.