News of the Weird (May 4, 2014)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M369, May 4, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
“Oooooo! Aaaaahhh! Eh?” The Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission in March reprimanded three pornography broadcast stations--not for excessively erotic fare but for violating Canada’s protectionist, patriotic rules requiring that at least 35 percent of all content be of Canadian origin. According to its notice, the 24-hour AOV Adult Movie Channel, XXX Action Clips, and Maleflixxx, were falling short of the 8.5 hours a day of north-of-the-border sex action (and, in an additional charge, were failing to provide enough closed captioning to accompany the “Yeah!”’s and “Oh, baby”’s). [National Post, 3-5-2014]
Compelling Explanations
Drunk Logic: Wendy Simpson, 25, explaining her DUI arrest during a March incident in Almondbury, England, pointed out that she had just minutes earlier walked to a McDonald’s for a late-night meal because she knew she was too inebriated to drive. However, the dining room was closed, and she was refused service at the drive-thru window because she was on foot, and, she said, the only option left for her was to go home, get her car, and return to the drive-thru. On the way back, she was arrested. [Daily Mail (London), 3-20-2014]
Efren Carrillo, a member of the Board of Supervisors of California’s Sonoma County, was charged with misdemeanor “peeking” last year in Santa Rosa after he, returning home from a club late at night, saw his female neighbor’s light on and decided to drop in on her (though he did not even know her name). He had knocked at her back patio door, carrying beers, but was dressed awkwardly, leading the woman to call 911. “In retrospect,” the County Supervisor told police afterward, “I should have had my pants on” (instead of just his socks and underwear). (His trial was underway at press time.) [Press and Democrat, 4-18-2014]
Among the arguments offered in March by Darrious Mathis’s lawyers for his jury trial in Cobb County, Ga. (for assault, kidnaping, and carjacking) was the assertion that Mathis needed no force in order to have sex with the female victim on the night in question--because Mathis is such a good-looking man. (However, the jury was not so dazzled and convicted him on all charges.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3-25-2014]
Ironies
England’s Stockport magistrates’ court levied an equivalent-$13,000 fine in March against Lorraine White, 41, who runs a part-time service as a dominatrix (chaining up and whipping “bad” men) in a “sex dungeon.” Her business is apparently perfectly legal; the citation was for violating fire codes because inspectors could not see how a client, being properly disciplined (handcuffed and chained), might escape the dungeon in the event of fire. [Manchester Evening News, 3-13-2014]
Sounds Like a Joke: The Food and Drug Administration has had run-ins with “homeopathic” products that subtly market themselves as health remedies without ever having sought the required FDA approval. However, in March a different problem arose, requiring the agency to order a recall of 56 different batches of homeopathic remedies made by the Ferndale, Wash., company Terra-Medica--because they may have (accidentally) been genuine medicine. A variety of the firm’s capsules, tablets, and suppositories, said the FDA, might have contained actual penicillin, inadvertently produced as a by-product of fermentation. [The Independent (London), 3-26-2014]
Tiffany Austin called a KTVU reporter in March after being dismissed as a member of the Planet Fitness Gym in Richmond, Calif., after only one 15-minute workout--because she was “too fit” and therefore making other members uncomfortable. Planet Fitness apparently takes seriously its its business slogan guaranteeing “No Gymtimidation,” designed to keep out-of-shape women from feeling bad about themselves. Said another member, to the reporter, “It’s unfair to show off your body.” [KTVU (Oakland, Calif.), 3-19-2014]
The Litigious Society
A columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yawm Al-Sabi proposed in March that Egypt sue Israel in international court for reparations for the 10 Biblical plagues cast from Hebrew curses, including boils, lice, locusts, and turning the Nile River into blood. Ahmad al-Gamal asserted that Israelites swiped gold, silver, and other precious items as they began their legendary desert-wandering. Al-Gamal also wants reparations from Turkey (for the 16th century Ottoman invasion), France (for Napoleon’s invasion in 1798), and Britain (for 72 years of occupation). [Jerusalem Online, 3-30-2014]
A California model, Elizabeth Dickson, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles in March against Playboy Enterprises for an injury she suffered as a guest on a Playboy Channel cable TV show in 2012 when she allowed host Kevin Klein to tee a golf ball off of her rear end. According to the $500,000 lawsuit, Klein took a swing at the ball that was perched between her cheeks, missed, and struck her buttocks hard, causing her “pain, suffering, worrying, and anxiety.” [KCBS-TV (Los Angeles), 3-13-2014]
Latest Human Rights
Rehabilitated: Cook County, Ill., judge Cynthia Brim is awaiting the Illinois Courts Commission’s decision as she seeks to be reinstated following her suspension in 2012 for mental health issues. Brim has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, has been hospitalized “several” times since 1993 (according to a Chicago Sun-Times report), and now claims to be fine, provided that she takes her meds on schedule--which her doctor said she will need to do for the rest of her life. Her suspension came after a manic courtroom outburst lauding her heroic “testicles” and which preceded a scuffle with sheriff’s deputies outside a county judicial building. [Chicago Sun-Times, 3-28-2014] [WLS Radio, 2-5-2013]
Least Competent Criminals
Genres That Never Get Old: (1) Evelyn Hamilton, 37, was arrested in Lufkin, Tex., in April as merely the most recent person to complain to police that in a street transaction, she had been sold inferior marijuana. “Seeds and residue,” she whined to the nearest officer, as she pulled a stash from her bra. (2) Though many people are remorseful about their first tattoos, Jeffrey Chapman is apparently more so. His ultra-cool inking (the word “murder” on his neck in reverse image, clearly readable only in a mirror) is now awkward as he prepares, at press time, to stand trial for first-degree murder for a 2011 killing in Great Bend, Kan. [Associated Press via Athens Banner-Herald, 4-7-2014] [Associated Press via Kansas.com, 4-23-2014]
Update
Jerry Hartsfield lost again. In the Texas case mentioned in News of the Weird in March, the illiterate, borderline-incompetent black man sought release from prison because his constitutional “speedy trial” right was violated. (He had been sentenced to death row in 1977 for murder, but his conviction was overturned in 1983, and the then-governor quickly “commuted” the sentence to life in prison. Hartsfield languished behind bars for 23 more years before realizing that there was no “sentence” in effect in 1983 to “commute” and petitioned to be freed since Texas was, basically, mocking his speedy-trial right.) However, in April, district judge Craig Estinbaum once again turned him down, hinting that Hartsfield must have consciously ignored his speedy-trial right for 23 years because he was content to be imprisoned (and might even have been purposely lingering in lockup to make his eventual speedy-trial claim stronger). Obviously, Hartsfield’s lawyers will appeal further. [The Week via Yahoo News, 4-17-2014]
Armed and Clumsy (all-new!)
Americans (mostly men) continue to accidentally shoot themselves. Several men from law enforcement did: a cop in Bridgeport, Conn., in the leg at a bagel shop (December); a former police officer and firearms instructor in Glenwood, Neb. (January); a sheriff’s deputy, in the leg while defending himself against an aggressive dog in Riverside, Calif. (April); and the police chief in Connersville, Ind., in the leg (January) (but--over 14 years had passed since the previous time he accidentally shot himself!). Some familiar (recurring) incidents: the accidental testicle shot (holstering his weapon into his pants, Portland, Ore., January); the motorist looking to intimidate in a road rage incident (but shooting his own leg, Orlando, January); the man demonstrating gun safety to his girlfriend by pointing the “unloaded” gun to his head and firing (fatally) (Oakland County, Mich., February); and the butt shot, while reaching for his wallet at a Home Depot (Brighton, Mich., December).
Bridgeport: [News 12 Connecticut (Norwalk), 12-24-2013]
Glenwood: [Omaha World Herald, 1-25-2014]
Riverside: [KCBS-TV (Los Angeles), 4-18-2014]
Connersville: [Palladium-Item (Richmond, Ind.), 1-20-2014]
Portland: [The Oregonian, 1-29-2014]
Orlando: [WKMG-TV (Orlando), 1-20-2014]
Oakland County: [Detroit Free Press, 2-24-2014]
Brighton: [Daily Press & Argus (Livingston, Mich.), 12-30-2013]
Thanks This Week to Mark Stevens, Al Strauss, and Clayton Melanson, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
Weirdnuz.M369, May 4, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
“Oooooo! Aaaaahhh! Eh?” The Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission in March reprimanded three pornography broadcast stations--not for excessively erotic fare but for violating Canada’s protectionist, patriotic rules requiring that at least 35 percent of all content be of Canadian origin. According to its notice, the 24-hour AOV Adult Movie Channel, XXX Action Clips, and Maleflixxx, were falling short of the 8.5 hours a day of north-of-the-border sex action (and, in an additional charge, were failing to provide enough closed captioning to accompany the “Yeah!”’s and “Oh, baby”’s). [National Post, 3-5-2014]
Compelling Explanations
Drunk Logic: Wendy Simpson, 25, explaining her DUI arrest during a March incident in Almondbury, England, pointed out that she had just minutes earlier walked to a McDonald’s for a late-night meal because she knew she was too inebriated to drive. However, the dining room was closed, and she was refused service at the drive-thru window because she was on foot, and, she said, the only option left for her was to go home, get her car, and return to the drive-thru. On the way back, she was arrested. [Daily Mail (London), 3-20-2014]
Efren Carrillo, a member of the Board of Supervisors of California’s Sonoma County, was charged with misdemeanor “peeking” last year in Santa Rosa after he, returning home from a club late at night, saw his female neighbor’s light on and decided to drop in on her (though he did not even know her name). He had knocked at her back patio door, carrying beers, but was dressed awkwardly, leading the woman to call 911. “In retrospect,” the County Supervisor told police afterward, “I should have had my pants on” (instead of just his socks and underwear). (His trial was underway at press time.) [Press and Democrat, 4-18-2014]
Among the arguments offered in March by Darrious Mathis’s lawyers for his jury trial in Cobb County, Ga. (for assault, kidnaping, and carjacking) was the assertion that Mathis needed no force in order to have sex with the female victim on the night in question--because Mathis is such a good-looking man. (However, the jury was not so dazzled and convicted him on all charges.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3-25-2014]
Ironies
England’s Stockport magistrates’ court levied an equivalent-$13,000 fine in March against Lorraine White, 41, who runs a part-time service as a dominatrix (chaining up and whipping “bad” men) in a “sex dungeon.” Her business is apparently perfectly legal; the citation was for violating fire codes because inspectors could not see how a client, being properly disciplined (handcuffed and chained), might escape the dungeon in the event of fire. [Manchester Evening News, 3-13-2014]
Sounds Like a Joke: The Food and Drug Administration has had run-ins with “homeopathic” products that subtly market themselves as health remedies without ever having sought the required FDA approval. However, in March a different problem arose, requiring the agency to order a recall of 56 different batches of homeopathic remedies made by the Ferndale, Wash., company Terra-Medica--because they may have (accidentally) been genuine medicine. A variety of the firm’s capsules, tablets, and suppositories, said the FDA, might have contained actual penicillin, inadvertently produced as a by-product of fermentation. [The Independent (London), 3-26-2014]
Tiffany Austin called a KTVU reporter in March after being dismissed as a member of the Planet Fitness Gym in Richmond, Calif., after only one 15-minute workout--because she was “too fit” and therefore making other members uncomfortable. Planet Fitness apparently takes seriously its its business slogan guaranteeing “No Gymtimidation,” designed to keep out-of-shape women from feeling bad about themselves. Said another member, to the reporter, “It’s unfair to show off your body.” [KTVU (Oakland, Calif.), 3-19-2014]
The Litigious Society
A columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yawm Al-Sabi proposed in March that Egypt sue Israel in international court for reparations for the 10 Biblical plagues cast from Hebrew curses, including boils, lice, locusts, and turning the Nile River into blood. Ahmad al-Gamal asserted that Israelites swiped gold, silver, and other precious items as they began their legendary desert-wandering. Al-Gamal also wants reparations from Turkey (for the 16th century Ottoman invasion), France (for Napoleon’s invasion in 1798), and Britain (for 72 years of occupation). [Jerusalem Online, 3-30-2014]
A California model, Elizabeth Dickson, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles in March against Playboy Enterprises for an injury she suffered as a guest on a Playboy Channel cable TV show in 2012 when she allowed host Kevin Klein to tee a golf ball off of her rear end. According to the $500,000 lawsuit, Klein took a swing at the ball that was perched between her cheeks, missed, and struck her buttocks hard, causing her “pain, suffering, worrying, and anxiety.” [KCBS-TV (Los Angeles), 3-13-2014]
Latest Human Rights
Rehabilitated: Cook County, Ill., judge Cynthia Brim is awaiting the Illinois Courts Commission’s decision as she seeks to be reinstated following her suspension in 2012 for mental health issues. Brim has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, has been hospitalized “several” times since 1993 (according to a Chicago Sun-Times report), and now claims to be fine, provided that she takes her meds on schedule--which her doctor said she will need to do for the rest of her life. Her suspension came after a manic courtroom outburst lauding her heroic “testicles” and which preceded a scuffle with sheriff’s deputies outside a county judicial building. [Chicago Sun-Times, 3-28-2014] [WLS Radio, 2-5-2013]
Least Competent Criminals
Genres That Never Get Old: (1) Evelyn Hamilton, 37, was arrested in Lufkin, Tex., in April as merely the most recent person to complain to police that in a street transaction, she had been sold inferior marijuana. “Seeds and residue,” she whined to the nearest officer, as she pulled a stash from her bra. (2) Though many people are remorseful about their first tattoos, Jeffrey Chapman is apparently more so. His ultra-cool inking (the word “murder” on his neck in reverse image, clearly readable only in a mirror) is now awkward as he prepares, at press time, to stand trial for first-degree murder for a 2011 killing in Great Bend, Kan. [Associated Press via Athens Banner-Herald, 4-7-2014] [Associated Press via Kansas.com, 4-23-2014]
Update
Jerry Hartsfield lost again. In the Texas case mentioned in News of the Weird in March, the illiterate, borderline-incompetent black man sought release from prison because his constitutional “speedy trial” right was violated. (He had been sentenced to death row in 1977 for murder, but his conviction was overturned in 1983, and the then-governor quickly “commuted” the sentence to life in prison. Hartsfield languished behind bars for 23 more years before realizing that there was no “sentence” in effect in 1983 to “commute” and petitioned to be freed since Texas was, basically, mocking his speedy-trial right.) However, in April, district judge Craig Estinbaum once again turned him down, hinting that Hartsfield must have consciously ignored his speedy-trial right for 23 years because he was content to be imprisoned (and might even have been purposely lingering in lockup to make his eventual speedy-trial claim stronger). Obviously, Hartsfield’s lawyers will appeal further. [The Week via Yahoo News, 4-17-2014]
Armed and Clumsy (all-new!)
Americans (mostly men) continue to accidentally shoot themselves. Several men from law enforcement did: a cop in Bridgeport, Conn., in the leg at a bagel shop (December); a former police officer and firearms instructor in Glenwood, Neb. (January); a sheriff’s deputy, in the leg while defending himself against an aggressive dog in Riverside, Calif. (April); and the police chief in Connersville, Ind., in the leg (January) (but--over 14 years had passed since the previous time he accidentally shot himself!). Some familiar (recurring) incidents: the accidental testicle shot (holstering his weapon into his pants, Portland, Ore., January); the motorist looking to intimidate in a road rage incident (but shooting his own leg, Orlando, January); the man demonstrating gun safety to his girlfriend by pointing the “unloaded” gun to his head and firing (fatally) (Oakland County, Mich., February); and the butt shot, while reaching for his wallet at a Home Depot (Brighton, Mich., December).
Bridgeport: [News 12 Connecticut (Norwalk), 12-24-2013]
Glenwood: [Omaha World Herald, 1-25-2014]
Riverside: [KCBS-TV (Los Angeles), 4-18-2014]
Connersville: [Palladium-Item (Richmond, Ind.), 1-20-2014]
Portland: [The Oregonian, 1-29-2014]
Orlando: [WKMG-TV (Orlando), 1-20-2014]
Oakland County: [Detroit Free Press, 2-24-2014]
Brighton: [Daily Press & Argus (Livingston, Mich.), 12-30-2013]
Thanks This Week to Mark Stevens, Al Strauss, and Clayton Melanson, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
Comments
Oooooo! Aaaaahhh! Eh? Oy La Ribbit!
Drunk Logic Suit McD's for not serving her! I heard 48% of college grads were flipping burgers. You'd think they'd have enough sense to sell product!
Efren Carrillo Sounds like it's getting unfriendly in Mexafornia these days.
Darrious Mathis His looks ain't doing much for me! Girls, wanna chime in?
Stockport Men's Club Sounds like the city is trying to whip up a little cash.
FDA Overreach So now, if you buy moldy bread you're supposed to call the FDA?
Planet Fitness I'll bet you Tiffany was running her mouth 'cause she ain't got no 6pack.
Egypt sue Israel PULEEEEESSSSSEEEE anything to get the Ukraine off the news cycle.
Elizabeth Dickson Butt, it only hurt for a minute!
Cook County Chicago corruption? Never!
All hail the Chuckmister!
Drunk Logic Suit McD's for not serving her! I heard 48% of college grads were flipping burgers. You'd think they'd have enough sense to sell product!
Efren Carrillo Sounds like it's getting unfriendly in Mexafornia these days.
Darrious Mathis His looks ain't doing much for me! Girls, wanna chime in?
Stockport Men's Club Sounds like the city is trying to whip up a little cash.
FDA Overreach So now, if you buy moldy bread you're supposed to call the FDA?
Planet Fitness I'll bet you Tiffany was running her mouth 'cause she ain't got no 6pack.
Egypt sue Israel PULEEEEESSSSSEEEE anything to get the Ukraine off the news cycle.
Elizabeth Dickson Butt, it only hurt for a minute!
Cook County Chicago corruption? Never!
All hail the Chuckmister!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/04/14 at 11:02 AM
Canadian porn- That law violates NAFTA!
McD DUI- Eat at home idiot.
Beer and no pants- Try a nice bottle of wine and PANTS!
Sexy-'I'm too sexy to get charged, too sexy to get charged, so sexy and largeeee!' Um, no.
Fire safety- Quick release straps would do it.
Oops, penicillin- We'd hate to have them sell any real meds. But seriously, if someone who is allergic to penicillin took the stuff that would be very bad.
Planet Fitness- Can't wait to see their next add campaign. Join us and we will get you so ripped we will kick you out!
Reparations- And we think 200 years is a long time here.
Golf ball/butt/tee- The words 'at your own risk' come right to mind.
judge/meds- Its only fair to give her a chance. As with any serious health problem, a person needs to get treatment to function normally in all parts of their life. Its a chemical imbalance after all.
bad pot/unfortunate tat- If these people made good decisions they would not be in trouble in the first place.
Tex-ass justice- To quote a phrase. He may be a bit longer getting out, but he will be a very rich man.
shootings- That many in, say, 6 months in a pool of 500 people is a lot. Conversely, over 5yrs and 10,000 people, not so much. There are some idiots around everywhere you go, percentages give a much truer picture of the situation.
McD DUI- Eat at home idiot.
Beer and no pants- Try a nice bottle of wine and PANTS!
Sexy-'I'm too sexy to get charged, too sexy to get charged, so sexy and largeeee!' Um, no.
Fire safety- Quick release straps would do it.
Oops, penicillin- We'd hate to have them sell any real meds. But seriously, if someone who is allergic to penicillin took the stuff that would be very bad.
Planet Fitness- Can't wait to see their next add campaign. Join us and we will get you so ripped we will kick you out!
Reparations- And we think 200 years is a long time here.
Golf ball/butt/tee- The words 'at your own risk' come right to mind.
judge/meds- Its only fair to give her a chance. As with any serious health problem, a person needs to get treatment to function normally in all parts of their life. Its a chemical imbalance after all.
bad pot/unfortunate tat- If these people made good decisions they would not be in trouble in the first place.
Tex-ass justice- To quote a phrase. He may be a bit longer getting out, but he will be a very rich man.
shootings- That many in, say, 6 months in a pool of 500 people is a lot. Conversely, over 5yrs and 10,000 people, not so much. There are some idiots around everywhere you go, percentages give a much truer picture of the situation.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/04/14 at 11:58 AM
Biblical plague suit. It would be interesting. The Bible would have to be proved as factual in a majority Islamic state.
Posted by BMN on 05/04/14 at 01:11 PM
HAIL! Chuck!
BTW My favorite review of CANADIAN PORN! :lol: :coolsmile:
BTW My favorite review of CANADIAN PORN! :lol: :coolsmile:
Posted by Tyrusguy on 05/04/14 at 01:28 PM
Biblical plague suit: Good point, BMN. After all, from the Egyptian POV, the Old Testament was written by a bunch of no-good lying Jews, so of course it's fiction. Further, there were no good, honest Muslims around back then who could be impartial witnesses, of course. Not that that would overly worry a religious court system of any stripe. I wonder how much the counter-suit for being held in bondage would be. Not to mention the various Arab-Israeli wars. Oh, and the counter-suit by the British for the Suez Canal.
Rehabilitated judge. How about she comes back on a probationary status until the system can be comfortable that she's stable on the meds and does take them reliably.
Self-inflicted gunshots: I foretell that, starting July 1st, Georgia will lead the nation in self shootings, if only because the concealed carry law will be gutted. About the only place you won't be able to carry a concealed weapon (with the appropriate permit, of course) is in the State Capitol - the one place where it would at least make some of the political debates a little more lively.
Rehabilitated judge. How about she comes back on a probationary status until the system can be comfortable that she's stable on the meds and does take them reliably.
Self-inflicted gunshots: I foretell that, starting July 1st, Georgia will lead the nation in self shootings, if only because the concealed carry law will be gutted. About the only place you won't be able to carry a concealed weapon (with the appropriate permit, of course) is in the State Capitol - the one place where it would at least make some of the political debates a little more lively.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 05/04/14 at 03:41 PM
"In retrospect, I should have had my pants on."
One of the things one hopes not to have to say in court.
One of the things one hopes not to have to say in court.
Posted by Harvey on 05/04/14 at 07:46 PM
Efren Carrillo - will probably get re-elected.
Darrious Mathis - hey, buying drugs can get you into trouble and if you don't have sufficient cash, what are you going to do?
Dominatrix - a fire would probably get them even more excited.
Planet Fitness - do the mildly overweight intimidate the obese?
Elizabeth Dickson - obviously not hired for intellectual prowess. She probably clenched a bit too hard.
Jerry Hartsfield - should at least reimburse the state of Texas for 23 years of room and board.
Darrious Mathis - hey, buying drugs can get you into trouble and if you don't have sufficient cash, what are you going to do?
Dominatrix - a fire would probably get them even more excited.
Planet Fitness - do the mildly overweight intimidate the obese?
Elizabeth Dickson - obviously not hired for intellectual prowess. She probably clenched a bit too hard.
Jerry Hartsfield - should at least reimburse the state of Texas for 23 years of room and board.
Posted by RobK on 05/05/14 at 11:48 AM
Fire safety: That is actually a good point they make there, and one which she should think hard (NPI) about. A safeword is no good if the domme is passed out from smoke poisoning herself.
Sounds like a joke: Homeopathy is a joke. A bad one.
Austin: Some people just shouldn't be in a gym, and I don't mean her.
Buttock golf: Yet more reason to include "too stupid to be allowed to sue" clauses in liability laws.
Cook County: If the doctor says she's fine when she's on her meds, she should at least be allowed to prove it.
Sounds like a joke: Homeopathy is a joke. A bad one.
Austin: Some people just shouldn't be in a gym, and I don't mean her.
Buttock golf: Yet more reason to include "too stupid to be allowed to sue" clauses in liability laws.
Cook County: If the doctor says she's fine when she's on her meds, she should at least be allowed to prove it.
Posted by Richard Bos on 05/06/14 at 07:52 AM
"The Food and Drug Administration has had run-ins with “homeopathic” products that subtly market themselves as health remedies without ever having sought the required FDA approval."
It's worse than that. The homeopath lobby (you bet it exists) ensured that when the FDA was first created, homeopathic remedies were *explicitly* excluded from the FDA's approval process. Instead, they just have to be approved by the homeopaths themselves, a process which basically amounts to adding them to a big list. The FDA can only intervene if a product claims to be homeopathic but isn't on the homeopathic pharmacopoeia, or if the product is adulterated. In this case, it's adulterated with penicillin. ("Accidentally." Yeah right. There have been "homeopathic" remedies adulterated with genuine medicine many times before.)
It's worse than that. The homeopath lobby (you bet it exists) ensured that when the FDA was first created, homeopathic remedies were *explicitly* excluded from the FDA's approval process. Instead, they just have to be approved by the homeopaths themselves, a process which basically amounts to adding them to a big list. The FDA can only intervene if a product claims to be homeopathic but isn't on the homeopathic pharmacopoeia, or if the product is adulterated. In this case, it's adulterated with penicillin. ("Accidentally." Yeah right. There have been "homeopathic" remedies adulterated with genuine medicine many times before.)
Posted by Calli Arcale on 05/08/14 at 02:07 PM
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