oh i agree there is a lot of quackery out there and think its a shame that many people don't have a better grasp of science to be able to sort through it, and yes, then people take advantage of that.

i wouldn't be so quick to judge just because no one has figured something out for 200 years, that there is nothing to it. acupuncture has been around for thousands of years and is still not well understood by western science but we are starting to appreciate it more.

and there are all kinds of scientific surprises being discovered every day; in my field alone, ribozymes weren't discovered until early 1980's, RNAi was discovered in 1998, and riboswitches weren't discovered until the early 2000's. RNAi has been found in all eukaryotes and riboswitches are thought to be a relic of the RNA world if such a world existed. and yet, it took this long until someone was able to figure out the mysteries that were finally explained by these things. i'm sure there are similar examples in other fields, these are just the examples i'm familiar with. and the examples i gave have been right under our noses for a long time and aren't even that complicated, we just didn't know what we were looking at.

i truly have no idea about homeopathy and you may be absolutely correct. just saying, until its unequivocally denounced....
not even NIH has closed the door on it yet.

glad you liked princess bride, one of my favorite movies....
even if it wasn't really very related.


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