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Please Note the following website: http://nccam.nih.gov/nccam/strategic/report.html An agency has been set up by the Federal Government (US) to evaluate Alternative Medicine. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is now setting its agenda for thew next five years of research and is looking for citizen input. As most of you know I am not a fan of Alternative Medicine in most forms it is practiced. But I do feel that it needs to be researched both to find out whar is useful as well as what is dangerous and what is neither dangerous nor particularly useful. I think that this agency has the greatest possibility of accomplishing this task- both to protect the public against fraud which is rampent in this industry and inadvertent misinformation. as well In case you think that everything will be stacked against alternative medicine please read my post that follows which is an evaluation of acupuncture which to me appear fairly well balanced giving it credit where it deserves it. If you are interested in filing a comment with NIH's NCCAM please go to the website and follow instructions there. Charlie