, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 Talk of scientific principles is pseudoscience which was discarded in the Renaissance.  Modern science is essentially empirical - it makes experiments and observations.  Theories and principles are secondary and must follow these results whither they lead, whether they make sense or not.  In medicine, simple mechanistic ideas do not suffice to explain many observations.  For example, if you give someone an emetic in a certain way then it is found to have the opposite effect of preventing nausea.  It seems that the doctor-patient relationship plays a considerable part in this and it may be that homeopathy is especially efficacious in this regard.  Our lede should not be dogmatic when the matter is not fully understood.   13:06