Prof Ernst is a former advocate of Alternative Medicine; especially Homeopathy, until the pharmaceutical companies persuaded him otherwise: despite the evidence of his own eyes, he adopted a mainstream approach.
DQ has rebuffed Dangerous Bacon's post quite eloquently, and articulately, which I thoroughly agree with, and cannot add to, but the thrust of his statement (and that of my original post) emphasizes the unjustified attack on Herbal Medicine for the benefit of Big Pharma.
It is time to realize that Mainstream Media and their Medical stooges, are heavily influenced by the Drug Cartel, and only by the efforts of those within Curezone can this be overcome at a grassroots level.