What drives those who would criticise or condemn homeopathy, without having invested a significant amount of time and effort researching the topic? These are NOT scientists.

Is it fear? Is it insecurity? Is it a realisation that homeopathy may overturn so many paradigms, in which they have invested their careers and their confidence?

True science first observes, later draws conclusions or theories.

In ethical medicine, any methodology that claims that it may be able to help patients should be thoroughly investigated, not vilified out of hand.

Let us have science, not doctrine. Let us have patient welfare, not vested interest.

Please don't bother me with mindless vitriol and pseudoscience. Please observe first and then try to make sense of the observations.

Does anyone need more proof of the serious dangers of manufactured food than the incident earlier this year, in which about 4,000 U.S. dogs have died, probably as a result of melamine (serves as a fake protein) inclusion in manufactured food?

The incident has been blamed on unscrupulous Chinese ingredient suppliers but surely the american importers and the manufacturers doing the buying share the blame? The need for a massive supply of cheap ingredients fuels such possible iniquities. The large scale manufacturing capability and the rapid distribution system ensure widespread damage from any error.

It is believed melamine may also have been included in some human foods.

This and the recent Sudan 1 carcinogen scandal, which contaminated chilli powder and which caused the recall of approaching 450 human food products (at a cost of about £100 million in the UK alone) show the power of food manufacturing to multiply any problem to a massive scale in a very short time.

These considerations are quite apart from the general health concerns associated with the feeding of processed foods.