. . . with something that will be as effective, but cost something like 1/10,000th of the cost to produce.

I understand that, as late as the late 1920's and early 1930's, homeopathic and alopathic medicine were taught side-by-side in all our prestigous medical schools. The reason that homeopathy was stopped is that the (alopathic) pharma companies started to make large donation to the schools (it was the Depression, after all), and "persuaded" said medical schools to drop representation of homeopathic medicine as safe and effective. After 3 or 4 generations, I'd say the strategy worked quite well, wouldn't you?