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If you look closely at the birthday candels, you can see how my mom drilled into each nilla waffer and inserted each candle.  I thought that was cool.

I saw homeopathic drugs for the first time this morning at Walgreen’s while I was looking for any kind of ear drops to help relieve pain in my wife’s ears.  When I got to the section where the drops were I saw this.

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I know there are all kinds of homeopathic remedies out there, but I never thought I would ever see them at Walgreen’s.  I always figured you had to go to the local health food store to find them.  I can’t believe Walgreen’s or any other large chain drug store would knowingly sell worthless medicine.

Later that night I went to Kroger’s and found this.

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After thinking about it for a while I think I figured out why these are being sold in normal stores.  These are the only products that fill the “medicated” ear and eye drops niche in the drug stores.  From what I have seen, the only medication that you can use in your ears and in your eyes is almost always prescribed by the doctor.  The prescribed types of medication are like antibiotics and not like pain killers where there is an over the counter type and a prescribed type.  Some companies (Similasan pictured above and below) develop these truly worthless products that can be safely sold as remedies.   Since they are worthless medicinal wise and mainly just water, the claims on the boxes of “safe for all ages and with any OTC and prescribed antibiotic.” actually are true.

Now this is just my opinion and I sill have to talk to a doctor to confirm this.  Don’t take what I say as fact.  Look it up yourself as well.  Go to these links to get started: wikipedia.org, Australian Skeptics, or just google homeopathy.

As a side note, the night that I found out that Kroger’s was selling these homeopathic medicines remedies,  my co worker was with me and I mentioned to him my disgust for homeopathic medicines remedies being sold here.  He said he had no idea what the difference between homeopathic and normal medicine was.  I showed him a few things on the Internet and now he is dead set against homeopathy as well.  I am glad I was able to bring a candle to his dark uninformed view of the world.

-jason

Some misc pictures from today.

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Here are some pictures from this weekend taken with my new iphone.  Tamma, Becca’s niece, came down for a visit and we went to Rain Forest Cafe.  There are some other misc pictures in there to.  Most of these pictures are grainy, but the iphone does better with daytime pictures.

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