Once Marginalized, Evidence Now Supports Hormesis as the Most Fundamental Dose Response

Excerpt from Google Book on Hormesis

Once Marginalized, Evidence Now Supports Hormesis as the Most Fundamental Dose Response
Edward J. Calabrese

• In order to deny support to homeopathy, the biphasic dose response was removed from medical textbooks
• An incorrect understanding of the dose-response curve leads to worse health for populations and "extremely wasteful spending" 
• "Historical Antipathies, Rather than Science, Dominated Which Dose-Response Model Would Dominate Biology"
• Hormesis is named after the Greek word for "to excite"
• A wide assortment of terms are used to describe a hormetic or biphasic dose response curve, making it harder to study the phenomenon (since no single word has been used throughout history)