alternative medicines

Here's a cracking site devoted to debunking all these weird alternative therapies that regularly pass us by in our daily lives:

www.quackometer.net

Not that I'm totally anti alternative thereapy though. Acupuncture certainly sorted out my painful frozen shoulders a few years back and herbal medicines have a long history and form the basis of many modern cures.... it's the strange things that, hand in hand with medieaval methods such as burying a piece of bacon to cure warts or other such idiotic quackery... reduce the ones that really do work into the same tarpot.