When Tom Cruise appeared on "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer while promoting "War of the Worlds," the two, rather suddenly, got into a tense debate regarding the validity of psychiatry. Once the ball got rolling, Cruise eventually said that he doesn't believe in chemical imbalances. Instead, he thinks so-called disorders can be corrected with good, old-fashioned vitamins and exercise.

Shakespeare once noted that calling a rose anything else does not change how sweet it smells. Though the same wisdom applies to less-than-fragrant odors, attempts to rename them seem especially offensive given the negative potential.