...off the alternative medicine as unproven.'' Sometimes the critics and the proponents aren't that far apart. Dr. John Renner of Independence, Mo., president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, is a vocal critic of unproven medical...

...spill. "Herring are the base of the food chain. If it hammered the herring, it ripples out to everything else," John Renner, a longtime Cordova fisherman, told the Anchorage Daily News. "The effects, I don't even like to think about...

...off the alternative medicine as unproven.'' Sometimes the critics and the proponents aren't that far apart. Dr. John Renner of Independence, Mo., president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, is a vocal critic of unproven medical...