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Homeopathy officially doesn't work according to the US government
There is a huge market in the US for homeopathic remedies. In 2007 alone, it was estimated Americans spent more than $3bn on a controversial system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, and which has long been dismissed by mainstream science. Now, the US government is requiring that producers of such items ensure that if they want to claim they are effective treatments, then they need to make available the proof. Otherwise, they will need to point out that there is “no scientific evidence that the product works”.
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It's not exactly true that homeopathic remedies don't work, they work at least as well as placebos and have no side-effects.
Modern antidepressants have been shown to be no better than a placebo in most cases and include some bad side-effects.
Homeopathic remedies: better than antidepressants.