The mitochondria doesn't come from the host of gestation, it comes from the donor of the egg, unless you do a 3 way thing, or until they find a way to cause a single cell to convert to a zygote.

Did somebody forget to test their new defs before posting? :P

To those who think it's strange that an antivirus can be detected as a virus or other malware. They have definitions of the what they seek, and yes, those look like the same thing they look for, so yes, they can easily flag on those if the programmers aren't careful.
Also, to be effective, they have to use certain techniques that are done by almost no software other than various malwares and antivirus programs, so again, a false positive is easy and the programmers must take special care to avoid that.
I guess somebody at Panda forgot all that and neglected to test.

Well, actually it is worse than useless, it causes harm since it deprives it's users of resources and opportunity that could otherwise be used for actual medical assistance that would help.

Homeopathy can not be shown to have a positive effect beyond that create by belief, aka the placebo effect.
This has been extensively tested numerous times.
Medicine that has no effect, is in fact, useless. Just like that cure for cancer in a small capsule current in orbit about Barnards Star that will self destruct in 3 minutes. It will never help anyone, thus it has no real value, and so it is utterly useless, though you are free to curse whatever bastards out there decided to tease us like that.

I've never seen any statement of what political affiliation Randi claims, so I don't know why you are saying he's a republican.
The termination date of his challenges are public knowledge, so if nobody can claim it in the decades they are up, that sure as hell isn't his fault.
Of the various cases of people backing out of his challenge, Randi was never the one to back down.
As to things known about for centuries being true, I take you are including the sun going around the earth as it's attached to a giant crystal sphere, as well as the heart being the source of intelligence in humans, and that any illness can be cured with bleeding and prayer? Yeah.... Just because it's an old superstition or scam doesn't mean it works, even if it's clung around among the desperate and ignorant for centuries.
Besides, Homeopathy was invented in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Yes, it's been around for centuries, barely, but it still hasn't been proven to work any more than telling someone you have magic pills that will cure them. Come to think of it, that's pretty much all homeopathy does.

Yes, even The Amazing Randi lets debunking challenges expire. After all, he only has so much money he can tie up for these things at one time, and there are so many charlatans that need their teeth kicked in.

Vitamins are in food, but are drugs, look up the definition of drug, and not in the urban dictionary.
FDA definitely SHOULD be allowed to regulate "nutritional supplements" but are currently prevented from doing so. All they can do right now is nail people, with great difficulty, for false advertisement, and because of that, the purveyors of such products avoid doing the necessary tests to prove their efficacy, since it might provide the proof needed to prosecute them, and the FDA is unable to require them to do so due to the red tape preventing them from regulating "nutritional supplements".
That kind of stuff makes me really wonder who got paid off, and how much it was.

Does EM Sensitivity come to mind for anyone? :P

Placebos do NOT work on my migraines. Hell, over the counter pharmaceuticals don't either. For that matter, the other types only half assed work, except for some I'm rather scared of so my doctor won't prescribe them in the first place. (Yes, I have been asked, and said, I'd rather not, even if it was only to avoid getting mugged for my meds.)

I thought the multitude of studies done in various countries around the world, including the USA, pretty much closed the case on the homeopathy scam decades ago. I guess Australia didn't get the back issues of the scientific and medical journals or something.

Please also look up the Nocebo Effect. It's where you get sick because you think you should. It's the opposite of the placebo effect, though placebos seem to be the best cure for it, imagine that...
The mind doesn't magically cure someone, but it can make you think you aren't as sick, or as healthy, as you actually are.

Actually they are. Not only are they depriving people of monetary funds that could be used for actual medical help that could improve or save their lives, but they are also being given false hope that often will prevent them or delay them from seeking actual effective medical care until it's too late.
In short, they promote misery, ill health, and death to make money by basing it all on lies.

I've seen a number of people hospitalized because they O.D.ed on meds solely because they were also taking herbs in addition to real medicine.
They just couldn't understand that a Large percentage of our medicines are refined versions of the active component that's in the herbs they are using, and the medicines are without the other components in herbs that have other effects, including negative ones. Additionally, the medicines are of specific quantities, while the herbs are variable dosage, so you don't even have stable doses with herbs. End result, they eventually take too much. There may have been some that died because of it, but the cause of death isn't exactly news that reaches the pharmacy.

First rule, don't take multiple treatments for anything! Doing so just undermines the them both and can result in death.
Second rule, modern medicine is based on folk medicine and herbology after it's been filtered through testing and refinement. It's the difference between cutting a precise line in a board with a laser, and pounding on the board with a river stone. If you aren't clear on this yet, modern medicine is the laser, and the other stuff is the caveman method.

Funny, that's not what the homeopathy literature that I've seen distributed says, especially since most of it was claiming to cure or relieve various conditions that you have. Preventative treatment needs to be done before you acquire said medical issues, not afterwards.

I remember one that required 5 years experience on a particular software package. Too bad it had only been available for 2 years at that point.