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<blockquote data-quote="laetusatheos" data-source="post: 3056281" data-attributes="member: 162163">Most of us are not qualified to do this research.&nbsp; We don&#039;t know how to evaluate statistical validity, investigators&#039; credentials, don&#039;t know the funding source for articles we read on alt medicine, etc.&nbsp; Nor is there any reason we should have to take the time to do it.&nbsp; If I get liver cancer, I may do some reseearch, but I am not going to spend my time figuring out whether herbal cold remedies are credible.This is why there is an FDA, and it&#039;s why there are tens of thousands of PhD chemists and biologists in universities spending $billions researching these issues.&nbsp; I am going to rely on an extensive set of qualified people to decide what is safe and effective, because they are more likely to get it right than I am.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have to do gas mileage tests or crash trials before I decide what kind of car to buy.&nbsp; This is certainly true, but what it means to me is, &quot;if Claritin or many chemo drugs made it through the testing process despite their limited effectiveness, imagine how useless the substances that don&#039;t make the grade are.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="laetusatheos, post: 3056281, member: 162163"] Most of us are not qualified to do this research. We don't know how to evaluate statistical validity, investigators' credentials, don't know the funding source for articles we read on alt medicine, etc. Nor is there any reason we should have to take the time to do it. If I get liver cancer, I may do some reseearch, but I am not going to spend my time figuring out whether herbal cold remedies are credible. This is why there is an FDA, and it's why there are tens of thousands of PhD chemists and biologists in universities spending $billions researching these issues. I am going to rely on an extensive set of qualified people to decide what is safe and effective, because they are more likely to get it right than I am. I don't have to do gas mileage tests or crash trials before I decide what kind of car to buy. This is certainly true, but what it means to me is, "if Claritin or many chemo drugs made it through the testing process despite their limited effectiveness, imagine how useless the substances that don't make the grade are." [/QUOTE]

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