I’m skeptical about the truth of their additive-free claims, though, if it’s true, it matters. As I understand it, tobacco companies add ingredients to their products which increase the user’s absorption of nicotine, effectively making their cigarettes more addictive. Some of the additives are harmful on their own, as well.

I will say that in my purely subjective, personal experience, it was a lot easier to quit smoking American Spirit tobacco than it was to quit smoking when I smoked Camels. They were both addictive, but the level of addiction and power of withdrawal symptoms were completely different. There could have been plenty of reasons for the difference, of course, but that’s how it was for me.

I’d like to add that many of us will try alternative medicine because traditional medicine quite frankly does not have all the answers. So we research things, read alternative views promoted by actual physicians who recognize that there may be more than what can be seen, felt, or touched by a doctor.

Take for example ‘idiopathic’ peripheral neuropathy. In a young female without diabetes or MS. Even though enjoying life and happy as a clam when the symptoms started, the doctor immediately questioned her mental health. How fair is that? Then the label of idiopathic is slapped on. Said patient is told that she is no ones problem. Hard to believe since something is causing this. So she seeks out alternative treatments instead of continual doctor visits that are useless anyways.

Heartbreaking, yes?

Simply there are areas where medecine is powerless.
For example think about back ache, you know there aren’t many drugs that can help you. Well you can get treated by an Osteopath for example. Now that’s part of natural medecine even if it’s not drugs.

Let’s take the example of plants remedies. Let’s pick ‘stress’ as a symptom. St John Worth, Kava Kava and all of these herbs do work very well.

I disagree that plants/herbs are not labelled properly and that people do not know the side effects. Most common herbs are sold in the UK for example is shops with labels explaining use and potential side effects.

None of these “Natural” products have had any FDA approved testing, which is why they are not “Drugs”. So no one really knows what the side effects could be, how they interact with other drugs or “Natural” remedies, or even how much you should take to get any effect at all.

So be very careful when choosing “Natural” remedies, you really are taking your health into your own hands.

“The uncertainty principle makes science actually unscientific”, you say and you make no sense. That is precicely the point, science works on the best evidence available, not on faith or imposition.

To take your chances with unproven natural remedies is really unscientific and dumb, knowing as we do that some natural remedies have never been effective and some are harmful. But that is your choice. Try to avoid Tuberculosis by natural means.

And, if “Burgermeister’s charges include evidence” it would be a hell of a story. Credible evidence, that is. Not TV Guide or Natural Enquirer type evidence.