A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathy treatments as real medicine.
A three-judge panel in the District of Columbia's Superior Court is going to look into why the Center for Inquiry's suit against retail giants was brought.
Last week, the DC Superior Court overturned a pair of rulings from lower courts, which denied that there was a plausible case against the retailers when they were accused of violating the district's Consumer Protection Procedures Act.
Though the scientific and medical communities have by and large rejected homeopathy, which operates on the principle that " like cures like " and claims to administer tiny, water-soluble doses of illness-causing agents which can end up being so minute that they can't be detected at all", it
In its suit, CFI notes that it has regularly testified before and petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in hopes of convincing the agency to better regulate these purported natural treatments.
In the case of Walmart, the products that were placed next to real over- the-counter medicine were a combination of store brands and outside brands, which presents another layer to the case.
The superior court's overruling of the lower courts establishes an interesting precedent in which nonprofits like CFI have standing to sue under DC law despite the lower courts' judgement that it did not technically qualify as a nonprofit that is.
The FDA has been criticized for approving drugs that don't seem to work, as well as natural remedies that appear to work on a placebo level.
Homeopaths believe that water can "remember" molecules as an attempt to explain away the fact that it's the most potent snake oil on the market.
The "Cures" are not true, according to the science.
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