Chiropractic Used The Political System, So Is Naturopathy

Anyone who follows me knows that I was against all alternatives to medicine even before I saw reality regarding religion. That said, chiropractors have successfully "manipulated" (pun intended) the political system to achieve state licensing and payment for their bogus "treatments" by the government and private health insurances. Naturopaths are doing the same thing. Be aware.

Naturopathy is bogus also

 

Naturopathy & Homeopathy: Both Are Bullshit

Naturopath who homeopathically managed fatal natural birthing absolved

In May 2017, the Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board dismissed a complaint by the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) against naturopath Anne Marie Palzer in her role as the clinical director of Birth Haven at Life Spring Midwifery. Records indicate that when a patient came to the center in active labor, a midwife consulted Palzer about signs that the unborn baby was in distress. The baby was transferred to a hospital but could not be resuscitated. DHS alleged that Palzer failed to authenticate the homeopathic medication that had been ordered for the patient every 15 minutes for several hours, and that she had failed to require communication from Birth Haven to the hospital. However, the naturopathic board declared that since Palzer ordered an over-the-counter homeopathic, authentication wasn't needed, and that she had followed proper protocol in connection with the transfer.

Commenting on the case, naturopathic whistleblower Britt Marie Hermes has said:

I suspect that some naturopaths reading this post are thinking that they would have done something differently than what Palzer did. But, my former colleagues, how can you be so sure that you would have made a different decision?
The institutions that train naturopaths revere homeopathy. This veneration, in my opinion, coerces students to believe in magic. Homeopathic medicines are based on substances that are so diluted with water that none of the original material remains. It is the so-called "water memory" of the substance that naturopaths and others believe is medicine. As naturopaths, we are taught that homeopathy can do anything, given the right remedy. [Hermes B. A naturopath-midwife, homeopathy, and a dead newborn. Naturopathic Diaries, December 28, 2017]

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(Consumer Health Digest #18-14)

Naturopathy: Time To Shut All Of The Doors On This Quackery

"At the very least, the California legislature no longer has any excuse for accepting at face value naturopathic representations about the quality of their education or its ability to produce health care practitioners competent to diagnose and treat all comers, especially children. In fact, I have Britt to thank for originally proposing the idea of using the upcoming repeal to advocate for changes to the licensing law. I hope she’ll write on the subject herself, with her insider’s vast knowledge of naturopathic education and practice."

California legislature should repeal naturopathic licensing

Autism And Alternatives To Medicine

"Naturopaths, to put it bluntly, are fake doctors. They are fake because they do not have a professional standard of care that is evidence-based and transparent. They have no standard of care – literally anything goes. What they have is a very loose philosophy with a vague appeal to nature fallacy. That’s it. They use an eclectic combination of disproven, fanciful, and outright pseudoscientific interventions. They may also give some basic nutrition advice, but even there they cannot be trusted because they have no standard of evidence."

"Education is great but we clearly need better regulation. The state should not licence professions without a system in place to ensure external validity and transparency. They should not licence quacks and then let them regulate themselves."

CAM Harming Children with Autism

Supplements Instead Of Medication?

"Naturopaths claim that they can effectively manage medical conditions with “natural” approaches, but the evidence supporting these recommendations has been consistently shown to be absent or weak."

Should you try a “natural alternative” before medication?

"Health Care Freedom"

"They lobby for health care freedom laws to weaken the standard of care, to carve out exemptions for particular kinds of quackery (like chronic Lyme quackery), to mandate coverage of worthless treatments through insurance, they fight for licensure of dubious professions, and then to expand their scope of practice. If they fail, they are back the following year, and they have the money to support their efforts."

There essentially is no difference between how ideologues use the terms "Health Care Freedom" or "Religious Freedom" to push politicians into passing harmful legislation.

Massachusetts Senate Passes Naturopathic Practice Act

Naturopaths: More Quacks

The most frequent group of quacks than I post on are chiropractors.  I do this because, as a physical therapist, I had contact with them and their patients more that any other group of quacks.  However, Naturopaths have most of the same pseudoscience features as chiropractors.

Sh*t naturopaths say, part 5: Ozone therapy, honey, and attacks on Change.org petitions

Beware The Naturopaths

I put these quacks in the same category as homeopaths and chiropractors:  they all have an acute sense of marketing and politics.

Naturopaths and supplement manufacturers: In bed together to promote naturopathic licensure

What You Get When You Let Quacks Act Without Challenge

Chiropractors, Naturopaths, Concussions and Senate Bill 1535