response to another question Re Talk:Homeopathy celebrendorsments 

"No, we could use the fact that celebrities have been paid to promote these products to support the statement that homeopathic remedies have been advertised by celebrity endorsement. However, advertising and popularity are two different things - one is hoped to lead to the other by the people paying for the advertising, but it isn't a necessary connection"  Tim Vickers, a statement that could be interprested as arguing that all of the celebrities who support homeopathic medicine have been paid by mystirious "people" (Big Homeopathy conspiracy theories?!??). Not only that, Vickers later confessed to "just cynical about "celebrity endorsements" in advertisements". essentially he admits that he believes that rush limbaugh, Bill Clinton, the Pope, and the British Royal Family were all paid to publically endorse homeopathy. Can that be right? Its possible that Vickers meant something else, but it cant imagine what else. Later on, ""I think any normal person assumes that if a celebrity appears in an advert then they have been paid to do so."