I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with—and labeled similarly to—their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you’re giving them medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just lying—it’s like an example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong.
I noticed this too, but they’re fake homeopathic pills. They’re not really homeopathic—they have active ingredients in the same quantity as the original brand-name products they are knock-offs of, but with the word “homeopathic” added as a marketing ploy. They’re lying about lying.
-- Randall, XKCD #971
I noticed this too, but they’re fake homeopathic pills. They’re not really homeopathic—they have active ingredients in the same quantity as the original brand-name products they are knock-offs of, but with the word “homeopathic” added as a marketing ploy. They’re lying about lying.