# CVS dumps cigarettes, keeps homeopathic remedies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482 "2014-09-25T00:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/81 "2014-09-30T16:34:06Z")
[One “manufacturer” of homeopathic products is leaving the US.](http://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/under-threat-of-class-action-lawsuit-maker-of-homeopathic-medicine-settles-and-exits-north-america/) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/82 "2014-09-30T17:41:06Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > [One “manufacturer” of homeopathic products is leaving the US.](http://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/under-threat-of-class-action-lawsuit-maker-of-homeopathic-medicine-settles-and-exits-north-america/) It’s too bad your source is mis-characterizing the story. First of all, the writer doesn’t seem to understand that Mexico is part of North America, as the [source press release](http://www.heel.com/heel-com-news-May2014.html?ActiveID=10007676) linked to by the article doesn’t even claim to be leaving “North America”, as the article’s headline claims, but just the US and Canada. Also the press release from the “departing” manufacturer has this rather murky paragraph. > [@](#): > > In the USA, negotiations with MediNatura Inc., a Delaware Corporation, are close to completion by which the Heel Group will transfer its stock in Heel Inc., to MediNatura by the end of August 2014. The transaction does, however, not include any of Heel’s trusted and leading global brands such as Traumeel, Neurexan, Zeel, Oculoheel, Luffeel, Sinusin, Vinceel, Nectadyn, Adrisin, Gripp-Heel, Viburcol, Vertigoheel, Spascupreel, Engystol, and Lymphomyosot\*. Completion of the acquisition is subject to standard closing procedures. I don’t really understand what this means, but it suggests something more along the lines of paper-shuffling shenanigans rather than packing up and moving. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/83 "2014-10-01T00:59:00Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Anyway, while there’s satisfaction in pitting things that are annoying, there’s more satisfaction in doing something, even if it probably won’t effect\* anything. I’ve already composed a letter to CVS authorities. I’m trying to figure out exactly who to send it to. I will be posting copies on Monday. Good for you! 🙂 I still don’t agree with your point, but I’m glad to see that you’re doing something you believe in. I’ll be interested to see what happens with that. I’m also interested to see any stats that you or anyone else can provide on the number of homepathic physicians in the US. There’s more hyperbole in this thread than actual facts. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/84 "2014-10-01T01:26:02Z")
“Heel’s trusted and leading global brands such as Traumeel, Neurexan, Zeel, Oculoheel, Luffeel, Sinusin, Vinceel, Nectadyn, Adrisin, Gripp-Heel, Viburcol, Vertigoheel, Spascupreel, Engystol, and Lymphomyosot\*” > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I don’t really understand what this means You’re not supposed to, just enjoy the healing energies. Fortunately, the makers of Goutderange, Cardiacon, Snotflo, Spastireek, Gonorrah and Colonglow are keeping their operations in America. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/85 "2014-10-06T20:46:05Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Linus Pauling. What about him? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482/86 "2014-10-06T21:40:51Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What about him? He was a great scientist-- one the the greatest minds of the 20th century-- who wandered out of his field, and possibly was seduced by the Dunning–Kruger effect into thinking that anyone as smart as he was couldn’t make a huge blunder, but blunder he did, and very badly, so that sadly, at the end of his life, his name had become a byword for bad science and folk cures that didn’t work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cvs-dumps-cigarettes-keeps-homeopathic-remedies/699482.md?page=4)