Homeopathic Treatment Leads to Infant’s Death

Homeopathy, a laughably stupid Western pseudoscience, seems to have caught on with a few people in Japan:
“Homeopathy’s therapeutic value has been scientifically and conclusively disproven,” said Science Council of Japan Chairman Ichiro Kanazawa at a press conference on Aug. 24. Kanazawa made the comments in response to the October 2009 death of a newborn infant from vitamin K deficiency bleeding in Yamaguchi Prefecture last year, after a midwife gave the baby a homeopathic remedy instead of a vitamin K2 injection.
Homeopathy was created in Germany in the 18th century, and involves administering mineral or vegetable substances, diluted several times with water, that produce symptoms similar to those of a patient’s illness. The diluted preparation is soaked into a sugar cube which the patient swallows, and the remedy is supposed to draw out the body’s natural powers of healing and cure the patient. The preparation has almost none of the original substance left in it after the multiple dilutions, but homeopathy practitioners claim that the water “remembers” the original ingredient.
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At the press conference, Kanazawa stressed the need to prevent homeopathy from spreading through Japanese medicine as it has in the West.
If you aren’t familiar with homeopathy, here’s a video explaining its ridiculousness:
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