Pseudoscience and the Law: Nick Little’s Quest to Stop the Charlatans

Pseudoscience is everywhere in our society. Some of it can be (mostly) harmless fun, such as ghost hunters on TV or horoscopes in magazines. But one form of pseudoscience, so-called “alternative medicine,” hurts people by making false promises, wasting people’s money, and risking their health and safety. Why doesn’t someone do something about it?
Thursday, June 9 at 7 p.m. ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, discover what is being done, what isn’t being done, and what we’re doing to protect consumers from snake oil and quackery with the Center for Inquiry Legal Director Nicholas Little.
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Little will discuss the ways in which the government does act on behalf of consumers and what the limits of such action are. Focusing on CFI’s groundbreaking lawsuits against Walmart and CVS for their retailing of homeopathic products and homeopathy manufacturer Boiron, he will show that there is a real opportunity for skeptic organizations to use consumer protection laws to fight back against pseudoscience.
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Nicholas Little is vice president and legal counsel of the Center for Inquiry. In this role, Little is responsible for CFI’s groundbreaking lawsuits against CVS and Walmart for their retailing of homeopathic products in the District of Columbia, as well as attempts under the Freedom of Information Act to compel the Food and Drug Administration to grant access to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States. Prior to his time at CFI, Nick practiced international and domestic antitrust law in D.C. He is originally from the United Kingdom and received his undergraduate degree from Oxford University in Politics and Economics, a Masters in Labor Relations from the University of Warwick, and a JD from Vanderbilt University.