== Math illiteracy == 
 British Medical Journal pointed out, "Even though herbal medicines are not devoid of risk, they could still be safer than synthetic drugs. Between 1968 and 1997, the World Health Organization's monitoring center collected 8985 reports of adverse events associated with herbal medicines from 55 countries. Although this number may seem impressively high, it amounts to only a tiny fraction of adverse events associated with conventional drugs held in the same database." (BMJ, October 18, 2003; 327:881-882). 

 Sorry, but the BMJ should re-visit their applied statistics. Those numbers are meaningless in supporting the conclusion suggested (Hint: the operative word here, ppl is 'reported'.) I suggest this paragraph be removed.