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Homeopaths Without Borders went to Haiti in 2010 to treat malaria, cholera and other life threatening diseases with sugar pills and "diluted" water

In 1890 for $53.01, Canadian businessman George Taylor Fulford bought the rights to "Pink Pills for Pale People" which were sugar pills with some iron. He became a millionaire through his extensive use of false testimonials. In 1905 he was the first Canadian to die in an automobile accident

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1. Groups such as Homeopaths Without Borders are currently offering ineffective homeopathic treatments In the developing world. Other homeopathy charities are known to dispense sugar pills to treat AIDS and the Ebola virus.

2. It is safe for women to never have a period due to their birth control. The reason the 4th week of birth control pills are the placebo sugar pills is entirely because of the Catholic church.

3. There is a powerful "nocebo" effect, or negative placebo. One patient attempted suicide by taking 26 "sugar pills" and suffered dangerously low blood sugar, requiring IV fluids to stabilize him.

4. A 2008 survey by medical ethicists found that 50% of American MDs regularly prescribe placebos, which often include headache pills, vitamins, but also antibiotics and sedatives, since sugar pills cannot be prescribed.

5. In 2006 the researchers at the University of Cambridge developed an environmentally friendly sugar-coated pill with a lethal dose of potassium chloride for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.

6. The drugs used on mental disorders are the cause of chemical imbalances and sugar pills are just as if not more effective.