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Homoeopathic hospitals in the UK are faced with closure as they are deemed an unnecessary drain on NHS resources...

Imagine you’re the shareholder of a large pharmaceutical company...

You’ve invested in that company and therefore in the pharmaceutical industry.

Naturally, you’d like some good returns on your investment. In the 2006 top 20 companies highest returns on assets there are 4 pharmaceutical companies

So, if you were developing medicines how would YOU generate the maximum amount of revenue?

• The medicines would have to be exclusive to the company that developed them for the longest possible time


• The medicines would have to be expensive as well as exclusive


• You would want the medicines to be given to as many people as possible


• You would want the medicines to be taken for the longest possible time, for the rest of someone’s life if at all possible


• You would want them to be given as young as possible especially if someone is to take it for the rest of their life


• You would want any side-effects of the medicines to be treatable by medicines that your company also makes


• You would want to make medicines that people take, even if they have no symptoms so as to ‘prevent’ illness

11 million people in the UK take a cholesterol-lowering drug called Lipitor, which is a statin. This brings in £12billion each year for Pfizer that makes it.

So, hopefully, you can see why it's paramount to the pharmaceutical industry that homoeopathy is proven not to work.

What's also apparent, is that if homoeopathy doesn't work, why do they need to knock it?