2 July 2008 UTC Talk of scientific principles is pseudoscience which was discarded in the Renaissance Modern science is essentially empirical it makes experiments and observations Theories and principles are secondary and must follow these results whither they lead whether they make sense or not In medicine simple mechanistic ideas do not suffice to explain many observations For example if you give someone an emetic in a certain way then it is found to have the opposite effect of preventing nausea It seems that the doctor patient relationship plays a considerable part in this and it may be that homeopathy is especially efficacious in this regard Our lede should not be dogmatic when the matter is not fully understood 13 06