Hayfever

And homoeopathic remedies don't do that (kill people),

Treating skin cancer with water will almost likely lead to a progression of the disease - where real medicine might have offered a better hope of survival.

Failure to address an illness correctly can kill.

but even if you regard them as fraudulent I fail to see the why one would waste so much time dismissing them.

:)

I love this argument, it comes up in all these types of discussions.

If you think racism is so bad, why do you bother dismissing it ?

If you think god does not exists why waste so much time dismissing religion ?

Pharmaceutical drugs on the other hand are worthy of much more close inspection that is so far being avoided by the discussion of harmless sugar pills...

Yeah ! 'Big Pharma' is trying to kill you and get you hooked on anti-depressants.

. . . and the issue is being 'avoided' !! (because we are in cahoots with Big Pharma).

:P