Yeah, I get that. The general vibe is that they have a whole bunch of new physics that we don't have, and their tech is based off those principles. Lucky them. ;)

I'm quite prepared to accept that; I don't see any need to be disingenuous when it comes to the Bible.

I thought I saw something once that said (TNG at least) actually had techno-babble guys. Like the script writers would stick [technobabble] on the script and some dudes would come along later and get some serious warp-bubble deflector inertial dampening jiggery pokery going on. Might be bullshit though.

I don't know how it's done formally, but it seems the only reasonable way for the solar system is to define it as the sun, or the centre of the sun. Seeing as it's the SOLar system ;)

For the galaxy it's probably better to define it as a region. Sagittarius A is the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy with a few million solar masses. Good a place as any to stick the 'centre' pin I reckon.

It's amazing that stuff like this and flat earth beliefs are still out there. These nutters are immune to evidence.

I believe at one point god makes a circle with a diameter of 10 and a circumference of 30, which is a hell of a trick even for YHWH.

lol I know what you mean, I saw the reply to you earlier. Maybe the same dude.

Gold may not be incredibly useful, but it is (a) rare and (b) unreactive and (c) pretty and malleable. So it definitely has intrinsic properties that make it valuable. Probably scarcity above all though.

The nice thing about real medicine is that it gets the placebo effect too. In addition to - you know - actually working and having a positive clinical effect.

I think the 'almost' is key in this instance; with homeopathy, you are diluting things until there is nothing left.

Considering migraines can be psychogenic this seems natural enough. It doesn't warrant homeopathy being publically funded or paid for by insurance though.

They are all bollocks, but banning them would not help. Better to have an educated populace that sees them for what they are and isn't conned by their bullshit.

Homeopathy doesn't work, it's just water. Vaccines work (what's your explanation for where smallpox went to?) and are not just water.

Apart from that you're bang on the money.

Once it's been demonstrated to work, it's called 'medicine'.

Bizarre as this might sound, this isn't specifically about you.

The FDA, MHRA and associated agencies are not 'consumer watchdogs'. If you're suggesting that the industry should run its own standards body I'm afraid you're blind to a huge conflict of interest. There's nothing effective and efficient about having the fox guard the hen house.

"Holistic" is a marketing buzzword to con the gullible out of their money. Nothing more and nothing less. Ditto 'alternative medicine'.