i am not suggesting that innovation can or should be regulated. i am not even suggesting that revisionists should be scorned. indeed, efforts to apply homeopathic remedies to the treatment of allopathic disease states is not necessarily a bad thing. it is a mistake, of course, to consider such practices as a "modern" or "improved" variety of homeopathy, as, indeed, these practices are entirely allopathic in method, even though they utilize homeopathic preparations. the advantage of such methods, rather, lies in utilizing medicines that are more effective and more gentle and even more cost effective than the usual chemical concoctions: imagine running out of your $45 per pill antibiotic, and instead of refilling the prescription, you fill the pill bottle with water, shake a couple of times, and keep on dosing! the pharmaceutical companies would hate it, but everyone else would love it.

so i would consider these revisionists as making traditional medicine cheaper and more convenient and more pain free (and, no more yukky cough syrup!) ... but it is not, to repeat, homeopathy. so, from that point of view, it has no bearing on the subject of homeopathic practice.

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"The need to perform adjustments for covariates...weakens the findings." BMJ Clinical Evidence: Mental Health, (No. 11), p. 95.... It's that simple, guys: bad numbers make bad science.