The great and good Derek Lowe is properly scathing about the attempts to make “alternative medicine” mainstream. Just think, 80 years ago it would have been considered a gross insult to call someone a “root-and-herb” doctor. Now it the next new thing!

As well, hasn’t anyone considered that if pharmaceutical companies really knew that herbs and “life forces” were as efficatious as drugs they would no doubt fire their entire R&D staff within the hour?