Rudy Canoza wrote:
> "Evidence suggests remedies offer placebo effect, but no real benefits"
>
> Reuters
>
> LONDON - The world may be beating a path to the doors of homeopathic
> practitioners as an alternative to conventional medicines, but according
> to a new study they may just as well be taking nothing.
>
> The study, published in Friday's edition of the respected Lancet medical
> journal, is likely to anger the growing numbers of devoted practitioners
> of and adherents to alternative therapies that include homeopathy.
>
> more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9078909/
>
>
> Just like "reflexology", better known as foot massage. These therapies
> are quackery. They have appeal for uneducated, credulous dummies.

More bad news for Lesley. Have you seen this article?

The giant orb of iron and nickel that anchors Earth's center is spinning
faster than the planet's surface, according to a new study that confirms
scientists' expectations.

The finding is based on analyses of earthquake pairs that occur at
roughly the same spot on Earth but at different times. On seismic
recoding instruments, the earthquake signatures from waveform doublets,
as they are called, look nearly identical.

When earthquakes strike, their seismic waves can travel through the
planet and surface all over the globe.

The researchers analyzed 18 sets of waveform doublets -- some separated
in time by up to 35 years -- from earthquakes occurring off the coast of
South America but which were recorded at seismic stations near Alaska.

Earth's core is made of a solid inner part and a fluid outer part, all
of it mostly iron.

The solid inner core has an uneven consistency, with some parts denser
than others, and this can either speed up or slow down shock waves from
earthquakes as they pass through.

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofn...earthcore.html