and large trials are too expensive for natural coins. Which coin do you pick? Composer99 ttp://composer99.blogspot.ca November 16, 2012 By way of rejecting Ji's framing, I might add that, given medicine is done by humans, a 50/50 toss-up of a treatment is better than what quackery offers. Not just better, but orders of magnitude better. Ed Whitney November 16, 2012 "an instrument of fascism ...compulsory ignorance and myopathy." Does he mean an instrument of mitochondrial myopathy? Inflammatory myopathy? Hereditary myopathy? Metabolic myopathy? I always knew that science was bad, but I never knew that it destroyed your muscle fibers! Spectator November 16, 2012 "The reasons, of course, are obvious; their preferred ideas about disease and modalities to treat it are not rooted in science." Or might the reason be that they're in the sales and marketing business, not the practice of medicine business? err doktor bimler November 16, 2012 Sayer Ji sounds like the name of a character from Star Wars Firefly . Fixed that for you. Old Rockin' Dave November 16, 2012 The difference between woo and science is something like the story of the blind men and the elephant. Woo promoters are like the blind men of the story -- they touch some small part of the elephant and assume they now know all there is to know about it, and while they may even get a tiny bit of truth, they have learned nothing useful, or true on a fundamental level. But those blind men were lazy.