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Regarding the statements of "flohcat" regarding homeopathy as "disproved quackery" and as being similar to other "disproven snake oil" quackeries: First and foremost, I myself have never tried homeopathic remedies and therefore I myself cannot speak to their effectiveness or lack thereof. Did YOU ever try them, "flohcat"? If not, please state the factual basis of your conclusions about homeopathy. If you cannot do so, I feel I must call into question your own ethical issues in putting forth such detrimental allegations in the absence of substantiation. Secondly, homeopathy has not to my knowledge ever been "disproven" as to its statistical level of confidence or reliability for effectiveness, nor has it been published in any journal so far as I have to date heard, as being determined to be "snake oil" or other "quackery" by anyone who provided research-based findings as a basis for such allegations--despite my exposure to numerous journals'findings during the years that I was a quadrilinqual scientific and technical journals proofreader for a major research university. If you, "flohcat", are able to provide such citations, it would be appreciated. Until then, and given the excessive degree of vilification of your allegations without substantion, I believe WOT would be ill-advised to accept at face value your recommendations about this or any other site. I believe WOT has until now assumed as a "given" that all persons rating all sites will all have scrupulous integrity sufficient to provide incontrovertible evidence in support of their ratings. Your use of the terms "snake oil" and "quackery" are enough in themselves to doubt the unbiased nature of any rating based on these terms. If comments made on WOT were subject to legal action for libel, I expect you would likely be recanting right now. As to the basis for my surprise at learning that LHA offers homeopathic remedies: In the months during which I received health-related emails from LHA, I have never received one informing me that LHA sells homeopathic preparations. In visiting the LHA site, I remained unaware of any such products being offered. This would not support the idea of any active attempt being made by LHA to promote homeopathy equally with its non-homeopathic line of products. Further, upon my speaking with an LHA customer representative, a suggested product for my consideration had no relevance to homeopathic products. Your comment, "flohcat", is the first time the subject has ever come to my notice in connection with LHA. It therefore cannot reasonably be an important portion of their product line, and therefore should not be made the sole basis of an entirely unsubstantiated WOT rating of "RED". Especially in light of the written statement by WOT that its ratings are NOT based solely on readers' reactions. I had some weeks ago requested of WOT via email that WOT explain to me more clearly how it DOES arrive at its ratings--and received no specific answer in return, merely a white paper overview that did not increase my understanding of the basis of WOT's red circles. In one instance, regarding a different site, I found as a second comment--all comments by the same person, that he had a handful of spam from that site. That was interesting--since I had been a free subscriber to that site for months and had yet to receive what I would consider to be "spam." Amazon sends me unrequested emails about seasonal bargains--none of which fit my purchasing profile with Amazon, plus I was not aware that I had agreed to be notified of such sales going on. Yet Amazon has a green rating from WOT. I call upon "flohcat" to either put up or shut up. Show evidence for your red rating, other than your personal belief that homeopathy is "quackery" and "snake oil", or recant your allegations until such time as you can do so. I call upon WOT to either screen your raters' comments on a better basis than you have demonstrated with "flohcat"'s diatribe, or stop conducting yourselves as though your ratings were authoritative or in any manner definitive. For those readers whose patience has let them read this far, I will now substantiate some of my statements. First, as to my willingness to reserve judgment in the matter of homeopathy's effectiveness: Recently I happened to come across an article about homeopathy that explained its functionality despite its extreme dilution. I apologize that I do not now recall whether it was email or snail mail in nature. However, I found nothing in the discussion that lent itself to a conclusion that homeopathic methods are necessarily "snake oil" . In support of homeopathy's hypothesis that an extreme dilution may indeed still have effect, a family member of mine lately described to me that a child of one of her online friends had gone into a severe peanut-allergy reaction simply by sitting in the same room as another child who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich at lunch. Apparently the 2nd child's breath retained enough of the allergen to spark a severe reaction just from breathing the air in the same room. On this preliminary-hypothesis basis, or until statistically analyzed and disproven at a 90% confidence level, I would have no problem in tentatively accepting as a first hypothesis that some people may at some time have responded to some degree to some forms of homeopathy as a similarly extremely diluted compound. Any correlation to "snake oil quackery" would need to be studied as a separate hypothesis in an independent investigation. To the extent of my limited knowledge, no such study has been performed, or if performed, the published findings have not yet come to my attention. If I were you, "flohcat", I would reserve my own findings for my own personal life and avoid rating LHA's site on the basis of personal belief or prejudice about one product line of theirs--and a very minor line at that, one which LHA does not aggressively market, as my experience with LHA's site has shown. Until I read "flohcat"'s allegations, I had no idea that homeopathic preparations were part of LHA's product line. So LHA is not pushing this portion of their products very noticeably. I can readily believe that many times homeopathic remedies fail to work as expected--because from all sources I have read on the subject, a critical aspect of effectiveness is the degree of precision in diagnosis of the real cause of the symptoms. This degree of precision in diagnosis and treatment is stated by all sources to absolutely require the trained expertise of a naturopathic doctor (ND) for full effectiveness. Over-the-counter sales of homeopathic preparations, when ordered and used by self-diagnosing laymen, could reasonably be expected to result in a greater incidence of less optimal outcomes. However, even a layman may be able, to an undetermined degree, be able to self-diagnose based on familiarity with the condition, its probable cause, and probable remedies, based on reading and experience. Those variables, particularly in varying combinations and degrees among people, must remain indeterminate. In plain terms, we cannot state definitively what will work and who should buy homeopathic remedies from any site. In further support of changing LHA's rating from red to green, I recall reading from various sources (sorry, my recall does not extend to citations) that in countries offering free universal health care, where cost control is of major concern in medical treatment (i.e., they can only save money by curing diseases as quickly and effectively as possible, and they don't earn extra by adding to the patient load), the use of homeopathic and even less-standard treatments are commonplace. Germany and Japan come first to my mind in this regard, although I vaguely recall hearing of others as well. Only in countries such as the US where profit is a strong motivator for "managing" rather than "curing" disease, are such remedies decried. Acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage therapy are covered by Medicare in the US--but I doubt you will find much in the literature to support that MDs refer their patients for such services. Most MDs with whom I have spoken relegate acupuncture to the realm of "snake oil quackery"--along with many other natural herbal remedies that are credibly supported by scientific findings. To sum up, I would find "flohcat" more credible if "flohcat" provided substantiation beyond a general denigration of homeopathatic products as "snake oil" and "disproven quackery", and if "flohcat" had not relegated an entire site to red circles as entirely unworthy on the sole basis of "flohcat"'s personal bias against one minor product line offered on that site. I say, shame on "flohcat" and worse shame on WOT for allowing this to happen.

So far, I have found no reason to distrust this site. The free emails I receive, at my request be it known, are more about health information and less about selling Logical Health Alternative's patron products than most of the other health-news sites to which I subscribe. The contact page offers a toll-free number and reasonable contact hours 6 days a week. The automated menu sounds professional and is primarily concerned with routine product/shipping/return inquiries. The wait time to speak to a representative is reasonable. The customer representative was professional and courteous, stated honestly when he did not know the answers I requested, one of which was about LHA's privacy policy. He said he had never been informed about Logical Health Alternatives' privacy policy, but he provided me 3 separate email addresses to which I could direct those questions. In all the time I have been getting LHA's free health news emails, I have never been subjected to phone calls or mailed advertisements from LHA, and the number of emails I get from LHA is minimal, and mainly concerned with health news. Advertisements are noted as such, are brief and to the point, and simply include a link for further information. No adjective-riddled sales pitches, no vague references to any unnamed mystery "secrets" or "cures". I did look up one of their products, "GlucoLogic" and it seems to have many of the same ingredients that are in supplements I now take to control my "reactive hypoglycemia" type of blood sugar disorder (I don't know what it is called these days, only what the diagnosis term was when it was stated to me by an endocrinologist 40 years ago). I was particularly impressed that at the end of my phone call to LHA, the representative summed up the services he had provided to me in the call, as what we covered today, and accepted readily my disinclination to learn more about LHA's products or services. No sales pitch, no argument. So far--and it has been months now--no spammy sales-pitch emails (unlike Jesse Cannone and Dr. William Douglass II and more than a few others I could name--if I could recall their names!). Whoever had a bad experience with LHA, you may need a nap to recover your sense of proportion--this site is equal to or nicer than most of the sites I see marked green. Sincerely, Mrs. Lamb.

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