Many people are concerned when big pharmaceutical companies do this kind of thing. So I don't think we should make any exception merely because Boiron's pharmaceuticals happen to be homeopathic ones.
Samuel Riva, who blogs (in Italian) at blogzero.it, put up some articles critical of homeopathy
which included pictures of Boiron’s blockbuster homoeopathic product Oscillococcinum, marketed as a remedy against flu symptoms. The pictures were accompanied by captions, which joked about the total absence of any active molecules in homoeopathic preparationsBoiron wrote to Riva's internet provider threatening legal action, if the offending references to Boiron weren't taken down. They also wanted them to lock Riva out of his blog, the BMJ says. In response Riva removed the references to Boiron, including the pictures and captions, but kept the posts on homeopathy in general.
Hmmm.
Above you can see a new picture I made of a Boiron product, with some captions you may find interesting. I've made sure to limit these to quotes from Wikipedia, and from Boiron USA's own website, and some simple mathematical calculations.
Beyond that, I make no comment whatsoever.
Turone F (2011). Homoeopathy multinational Boiron threatens amateur Italian blogger. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 343 PMID: 21840920
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This is suprising... man if they are going to take issue with everything written in public blogs they'll have a really busy legal team! I'm especially suprised that they, in particular, take themselves so seriously. That takes nerve!
Wonder if Boiron will come after JAYFK for this post on Boiron's Coldcalm http://bit.ly/pQpGZd
Hopefully, the lawsuit will back fire like when British Chiropractic
Association tried to sue Simon Singh:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/01/simon-singh-wins-libel-court
What a shame to be a frenchman.
When we speak about a french pharmaceutical compagny, we tell about homeopathic one or about Servier and its "mediator".
When we have a Nobel prize, we heard about him that he is studying water memory and that he can only publish is data in a journal that he created.
What a happiness to live in the web 2 times and follow people in which we can trust.
I think someone should threaten to sue you for twice referring to Boiron as a pharmaceutical company! Maybe we should use accuracy against them. How about "the dilute aqueous sucrose/lactose peddling company, Boiron...?" Let's not prevaricate like the BBC referring to Anders Breivik as "the alleged gunman!" Hmmm, maybe we could use "the alleged pharmaceutical company, Boiron?"
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