You may bend over backward to defend your pet “alternative” remedy—herbal medicines, acupuncture, Chinese traditional medicine, tribal witchdoctor cures—whatever it is. If the evidence supports it, your pet remedy deserves to be embraced by orthodox medicine. But homeopathy is in a class of its own. Not only does it not work, but—with a reservation to be entered below—it cannot work. Or, putting it at its mildest, if homeopathy is your personal favorite quackery, you are going to have to bend over backward a massive lot further than for any other branch of alternative medicine.