Please DON'T apologise! :-) Anyone who knows me in person would LOL at the thought of my curtailing (justified) ranting in any way.

And yes, I totally agree with you on all the above. It's amazing what people are willing to put in their bodies on the possibility it might work. I was reading an advice column in a paper recently from a person suffering from restless leg syndrome, and the doctor said a drug for Parkinson's *might* work. Um, give me the Rhus Tox, thanks.