Section names

[Sam G]

I basically use the conventional terms, even though none of them are really in agreement with what I tend to think about the purposes of these sections (not even "Herbal", really).  "Pharmaceutical" is certainly the most problematic one since lots of people do in fact assume that this section is about pharmaceutical mixtures, an idea that is unproven at best (and that I'm actually convinced is completely wrong for reasons I won't go into here).  So I could see some basis for replacing that particular section name.  Other sections like "Biological" and "Cosmological" are vague enough that I don't think many people assume much on the basis of these names - it seems obvious that we just use these terms so that we have words to refer to these particular sections.

I do think that there's a problem with unwarranted assumptions being treated as established fact with the VMS but I don't the names of the sections have much to do with it.  It seems that most fields of study have a lot of historical nomenclature that doesn't really reflect the current thinking and I'm not sure it's much of a problem.