11 Times "Health Guru" Celebrities Were Hilariously Wrong About Science

Homoeopathy has somehow managed to creep up on a lot of unsuspecting folk as a legit (if a little folksy) medical treatment. This is partly due to the fact that it has ridden on the coat tails of the increasing public distrust in modern medicine, and partly due to its army of celebrity supporters, including a real life prince of the realm.

Prince Charles spent a lot of the nineties being derided for his interest in organic food and slightly hippy-dippy approach to farming. Then, when the lentils lifestyle suddenly became terribly trendy, old Charlie boy began to look looked incredibly progressive for a guy whose entire life revolves around upholding the status quo.

Unfortunately, along with his love of all things organic, Charlie's interest in homoeopathy has also been given its own soapbox.

Again and again, homoeopathy has been shown to be no more effective than a cuddle from your mum and some "Magic Medicine" for that silly sore knee, and this is largely due to the fact that there are no active ingredients in it.

Lets just say that again, there are no active ingredients in homoeopathic remedies. They are, by and large, just water.

There's nothing wrong with a good, old placebo effect on its own. But when it is being sold to the sick and the gullible for outrageous sums of money or even subsidised by the NHS as the Prince of Wales would have it be, then it starts to become more than just some hippies in a field, tripping out on imaginary potions.