The intent of the study is to provide college and university administration with information that might be of value to them. In the report we don't make any recommendations at all. We are assessing the information.

We've gotten enormous response to this study. I had a phone call from a professor from the University of Kansas who wanted to incorporate some [of the results] into his humanities class.

I think this is just as good as an independent study. They weren't hired by the university, they are paying the university.

[The authors of the new Lancet study were Matthias Egger and colleagues from the University of Berne in Switzerland. They looked at 110 trials using homeopathic remedies and 110 using conventional medicine in matching conditions. They looked for an effect in both the smaller, low quality trials and in larger, higher quality trials. Homeopathic remedies were more likely to have had a positive effect in the small, low quality trials. In the better trials, they say, homeopathy was no better than placebo.] Our study powerfully illustrates the interplay and cumulative effect of different sources of bias, ... We acknowledge that to prove a negative is impossible, but we have shown that the effects seen in placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy are compatible with the placebo-hypothesis.

This is not about highly complex s. This is about what most people would consider everyday reading skills. These findings are not that much different than earlier generations of college graduates and that may be a reason some administrators would want to do soul-searching.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.