15th February 2006, 12:13 PM
The main issue here is the total lack of any evidence that these sorts of products work. The buzz word that should set everyone's "bull" detectors off is "natural". What does that mean? Is a giant bottle of pills natural now? What seperates the natural pills from the unnatural? I would wager that absolutely nothing does. Both have to be developed in labs, and both have to get their chemicals from the world around us.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)