Reply #1: Alternative medicine?

[deadmessengers]

The first cite you provided is from the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Here's the problem that I have with "alternative medicine". The treatment described might be effective. Hell, it might be a miracle cure. But, it's being published in a journal that also covers subjects like homeopathy and chiropractic as if they were anything other than complete and total quackery. As long as they choose to self-associate with pseudoscientific disciplines like that, they will not, and SHOULD not be taken seriously. I think Discovery Health is making the right call here by ignoring them.

And yes, I know that your second cite was from an actual medical journal, which *is* interesting, but the credibility shadow cast over the research by it's publication in a pseudoscience "medical journal" is enough to make me incredibly skeptical about the whole thing.