Well, D.C. I'm not in the least bit nasty----sometimes the truth
hurts!

Kick back with the rest of the friendly bacteria, and watch the germ
warfare continue.

Ilena Rose has correctly answered your post with more
excellent links exposing the depredations and deceptions
of an industry that is far more out of control than the tobacco
industry ever was.

Did you see today's USA Today about the deceptions around the testing
of Vioxx?

That is why her posts and the posts of all who are unafraid to look at
the facts are welcome, as are yours.

It seems to me that most of the vituperative remarks in this forum
have issued mainly, unfortunately, from a small select group of anti-
alternative medicine disruptors who never offer any arguments - only
distractions, insults and/or nitpicking coupled with clever changes of
context or "misinterpretations" of ones comments.

But there are real sick people out there, people that care only about
surviving their chronic illness or cancer or pain that is so bad they
cannot work and it does NOT help those people who come to this forum
to try and learn something to find the complete dismissal of various
alternative systems of medicine by people who do not seem to even know
the basics of the systems involved other than to ridicule this or that
of their complete misunderstanding of it.

Those ill people, PARTICULARLY when standard medicine
craps out and can't help, AS OFTEN HAPPENS, are the ones
I'm concerned about, NOT the egos of those who are here to play games
instead of exchange ideas and learn.

Citizen Jimserac