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- Subject: Skeptics commit mass suicide
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- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:55:53 -0700 (PDT)
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Just in case anyone missed this little gem from WHAT'S NEW... (since some have asked, this is how you get placed in a journalist's permanent rolodex): WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 21 May 04 Washington, DC 2. HOMEOPATHY: DEMONSTRATORS IN BELGIUM RESORT TO MASS SUICIDE. A Special Report in the current issue of Skeptical Inquirer looks into the ultimate protest by a group of skeptics. They objected to a decision by the major health insurance companies in Belgium to begin covering the costs of homeopathy in response to popular demand. Depressed by the willingness of the insurance companies to encourage quackery, the 23 skeptics resigned themselves to committing mass suicide by drinking a cocktail of lethal poisons including arsenic, snake venom and deadly nightshade. To the horror of the homeopathists, they even increased the potency in true homeopathic fashion by preparing a 30C solution of the cocktail. That means the cocktail was diluted one part per hundred and shaken, which was then repeated sequentially, 30 times. All newspapers and TV stations were invited to watch the death agonies of the 23 deranged suicides, who included a number of prominent citizens and professors of medicine, "and a few normal people armed only with common sense." The media coverage was excellent, but the suicide attempt was a failure.
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