Hello, I'm James Randy, founder of the James Randy Educational Foundation. In my books and in presentations all over the world, I've used demonstrations to show audiences the importance of thinking skeptically about pseudoscience. One demonstration I've done many times consists of downing an entire package of 32 homeopathy sleeping pills. The recommended dosage, by the way, is two to three cabinets just to show that these scam medications have no effects. Now there's a warning on the box saying to call your local poison control center in case of an overdose. But that's a joke. Most homeopathic remedies have no active ingredients whatsoever. Even though they're sold by major pharmacies, right alongside real medicine, every reputable medical study of these safe drugs has shown them to have no more effect than sugar bills or pure water. Homeopathy is one of the biggest health stands in America and it's a problem around the globe. That's why today hundreds of consumer advocates in more than 25 countries and more than a dozen US cities are joining forces in an effort called the 1023 Challenge. They're taking public actions and doing overdose demonstration just like the one I've been doing for years. Together we're telling the public the truth about homeopathy. There's nothing in it. Preversive homeopathy say that these demonstrations prove that homeopathy is safe. nonsense. What we're demonstrating is not that homeopathy is safe but that homeopathic preparations are not medicine and they have no effects. Good or bad except to flatten your wallet and ignore real medical assistance. If you're healthy then taking no medicine at all is just fine but people count on real medicine to heal illness or to immunize them against contagious disease. Taking homeopathic water or sugar pills instead of real medicine can be deadly and it's not just the manufacturers of these products or a blend. Pharmacies like Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS and a lot of other major retailers are silent accomplices in this scam, profiting by keeping unsuspecting customers in the dark. They sell these fake pills right alongside real medicines with no warning or information about the bogus ideas behind homeopathy. They simply don't care. What consumers know the fact about homeopathy products they can avoid them but every day parents of sick children are coming home from their pharmacy with fake medicine and leaving their children in distress because these manufacturers and these stores don't want consumers to know the truth. Here's the truth about the bad ideas homeopathy is based on. The first idea is that illness can be treated by a substance that actually causes the symptoms you want to get rid of so to treat fever, for example. They often use cayenne pepper since that's from producer sweat. The second idea is that deluding a substance making it weaker makes it more effective. So they mix a tiny amount of the substance into huge amounts of water, shake it up and dilute the mixture in the same way again and again until they throw out all the original substance and there's not a single atom or molecule of it left. This plain water is then dripped into vials or dropped on the sugar cubes and sold to parents who are led to believe it will relieve their children's fever or other problems. Many people think the word homeopathy just means herbal or natural medicine and they're shocked to learn what it really means. Now it should be a crime for pharmaceutical corporations to profit by denying the public this critical information about the products on their shelves. Customers are paying real money for fake medicine that leaves innocent people sick and suffering. This has to stop. Today the James Randy Educational Foundation is issuing a challenge to the manufacturers and a challenge to the retail stores who make money hawking these products. First to the manufacturers and practitioners pardon me, on homeopathy we challenge you to prove your claims. Prove the scientific studies are wrong. Win back your reputation and while you're at it win one million dollars for you or the charity of your choice. Submit your product for a double-blind scientific-making-controlled test and show that it's so-called high-potency homeopathy remedy diluted in water until there's no more of the active ingredient present. Is any better at treating any health problem than just plain water that it's based on? The experimental protocol will be designed by you and supervised by reputable scientists, all of which you approve of and if you can prove that your remedy works according to homeopathic principles that James Randy Educational Foundation will give you one million dollars. In spite of the fact that such tests have already been done and hoping up the has always failed, we're willing to do it again. What are you afraid of? Come on, prove us wrong. Second to the pharmacies and retail stores like CVS Wal-Rinsed Ride Aid Target and Wal-Mart, we challenge you to label it for what it really is. Your consumers have the right to know what they're buying. No customer of yours should ever walk up the door with a homeopathic product without knowing these basic facts. One, there is no evidence that this product does what it says it does. Two, there is not one bit, not a single atom of the claimed active ingredient in this package and three, no US health agency has ever tested or approved this product. Last, I encourage everyone to visit the 1023 Challenge website at 1023.org.uk and visit our website Randy.org, that's Randy with an i, get the facts about homeopathic to share with your friends and family. Our government doesn't adequately regulate these products and the pharmacies don't give you the facts, so you got to think critically and protect yourself from scams and charlatans. This is James Randy with the James Randy Educational Foundation. I've overdosed on homeopathic sleeping pills many times and my eyes are still open. See? You keep your eyes open too. Okay? For more of James Randy and the Educational Foundation, make sure you visit Randy.org.