Dummy Pills

"Perhaps,...you share with me a certain despair at the gullibility of seemingly educated Westerners towards New Age quackery.

One homeopathic cure for illness prescribes pinning onto one's lapel a piece of paper with the name of a homeopathic chemical written on it. There is simply no excuse in my opinion for anyone who has had the benefit of even a mediocre education to entertain such a claim. It is a betrayal of the loving, hard-fought victories of science not to ask the most basic questions of causality when confronted with homeopathy, astrology, crystal therapy, or any other such 'alternative' theory of the world."

-- Heather MacDonald, wondering why some people have a brain and some don't, on Belief.net.