The 10:23 Challenge

Posted By elissa on Feb 10, 2011 | 2 comments

The 10:23 Challenge took place on Feb. 5 – 6. What’s the Challenge all about?

The 10:23 Challenge was a follow-up to the ‘overdose’ demonstration staged by the 10:23 Campaign in 2010. Protestors from over 23 cities, across more than 10 countries, gathered to take megadoses of homeopathic remedies and make the simple statement: Homeopathy – There’s Nothing In It.

The Challenge culminated on February 6th at the QED conference in Manchester, where over 300 protesters simultaneously ‘overdosed’ on homeopathic Belladonna, in the biggest ever demonstration of its kind.

Did anyone keel over or suffer any adverse effects from “overdosing” on homeopathic remedies? NPR has the results…

Over the weekend, hundreds of skeptics in more than 25 countries took megadoses of the remedies to demonstrate they do nothing. It was the second annual event organized by the 10:23 Campaign. One bunch in West Virginia took 1 million times the recommended dose of a homeopathic sleep remedy and didn’t die — or even fall asleep.

Now, there’s a $1 million challenge on the table to makers of homeopathic remedies from magician and professional skeptic James Randi. If a rigorous double-blind, controlled study finds the remedies work better than plain water, Randi’s educational foundation will fork over the money.

I loved this account – from Antarctica, no less:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzOidQKafA]

I can’t believe people fall for this junk, but sadly, they do.