A Backgrounder on Naturopathy's 2026 CNME National Accreditation Crisis

here, well, I:

• 'explore / teach myself some things' in light of the issue of CNME and NACIQI -- that is the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education and the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity -- and CNME's potential loss of its USDE / Federal recognition and the Title IV gravy train / debt slavery scene.

• in light of the dimness of all the ct.gov performative 'evasion / confusion and attempted conversion / end run of CNME by way of NABNE' as evidenced in the recent 2026-05 Connecticut DPH Naturopathy Examiners Board meeting! I have been quite aware of the existence of CNME:
• I went to one of their schools for four years and was taught "the God Power Within You" / vital force {TNP Episode 001} was a legitimate basis and obligation for an also / simultaneously regionally accredited / state endorsed healthcare area broadly institutionally categorized falsely as "health science" {as listed to  this day}; as I have curated, that school's 1997-1998 catalog stated "the program will hold itself to the national professional educational standards required by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education"; quite the harm cooked into those present standards -- not one instance of 'vital' and at least 30 instances of the root 'science'!!!] and their [therein] very absurd position of, basically, 'pseudoscience and kind falsely posed and often coded' [and it is nauseating that to this day, too, naturopathy constantly postures 'first do no harm' -- stated 3 times in those present standards]

• this goes a little long, but I think it is worth it. 

001. NACIQI and their standards, gathered up by way of Google:

001.a. “NACIQI is the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. It is an independent federal advisory panel that advises the U.S. Secretary of Education on accreditation standards and the eligibility of colleges to receive federal student aid.

What NACIQI Does

• Evaluates Accrediting Agencies: It reviews national and regional accrediting organizations to determine if they meet the rigorous standards required to monitor colleges.
• Advises the Department of Ed: It issues recommendations to the Secretary of Education on whether these agencies should be officially recognized.
• Oversees Federal Funding: Because colleges and universities must use a recognized accreditor to access federal financial aid (such as Pell Grants and student loans), NACIQI essentially acts as a gatekeeper for taxpayer dollars.
• Sets Policy: It advises on the eligibility, certification, and licensing processes for higher education.

Further Musings on the 2026-05-22 CTDPH Naturopathy Board Meeting: Transcription Doublecheck, Theater of the Absurd, A Simple Question, & Citizens' Invalid Assumptions

here, based on the transcript of the recent Connecticut Department of Public Health's Naturopathic Medical Examiners meeting dated 2026-05-22, I continue musing with some AI-LLM muscle.  Yet, I am not amused [hint: naturopaths operate with neither an ethical compass nor an epistemic compass ‘he has noted in these 34 years studying naturopathy’, generally speaking]:

Note: I did a doublecheck. I had transcribed the meeting through the program Speech Note [v4.8.4 with Faster Whisper Large-V3 Turbo, for the techies] and then carefully organized that product to delineate each speaker. I also made parenthetical notes at the issues I noticed. This is what I used for the previous initial post on this meeting. To be careful, I grabbed the bare-bones YouTube auto-transcription as a comparison / verification of the very-same video.  The results from a Perplexity comparison of the two transcriptions: “After comparing the YouTube auto-transcript with the annotated transcript, there are NO contradictions on substantive matters. The transcripts align on all key problematic statements.”

001. as a reminder:

001.a. the CTDPH video is titled "Connecticut State Board of Naturopathic Examiners 5.22.26" and here was its agenda;

001.b. and I had noted in the first post on this video:

“the names / attendees listed under the live headshots were:

• Stacy Schulman a CT.gov lawyer
• Stacey Munro ND, Maria Mayer of CT.gov
• Dr Lauren Young an ND
• Elizabeth Bannon a CT.gov lawyer
• and Lisa Thomas who seems to be a patient of ND Young and perhaps the public member”;

and I'll add this now, in terms of the statute language: "Sec. 20-35. Examining board. The State Board of Naturopathic Examiners shall continue to consist of three members, two of whom shall be practicing natureopathic physicians [Young, Munro] of this state and one of whom shall be a public member [Thomas]."  [Their spelling of ye' olde' nature-o-pathic.]

001.c. and a decent encapsulation of that post could be this section of it:

“Connecticut's .gov presence will continue to say: ‘The state endorses pseudoscience as primary healthcare through sovereign authority, creating institutional harms to factuality, sovereignty, unpredictability, mobility, and solidarity while performing consumer protection theater’."

001.d. the type of theater / performance this whole fiasco most resembles:

the meeting embodies the genre pioneered by Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter — Theater of the Absurd wherein institutional ritual continues despite a fundamental breakdown of meaning, communication, and logical coherence.  But I’m getting ahead of myself... [And I can’t go on, so I’ll go on...]. [Now, ct.gov and such generally ignore me.  But, I’ll be optimistic and wonder what interesting clarifications may occur.  Which is fittingly absurd.]

Musings on the 2026-05-22 CTDPH Naturopathy Board Meeting: Self-Interested Opacity, the Unspoken Crisis, Laundering, and Consumer Protection Theater

here, 'an interrogation of / a musing upon' the Connecticut Department of Public Health's Naturopathic Medical Examiners meeting dated 2026-05-22 by way of my 2026 CT Final Report and some AI-LLM muscle:

001. the CTDPH video:

is titled "Connecticut State Board of Naturopathic Examiners 5.22.26" and here was its agenda; 

.

 

[a video to which I did post a comment]

.

with the meetings and agendas usually indexed here; the names / attendees listed under the live headshots were: Stacy Schulman a CT.gov lawyer, Stacey Munro ND, Maria Mayer of CT.gov, Dr Lauren Young an ND, Elizabeth Bannon a CT.gov lawyer, and Lisa Thomas who seems to be a patient of ND Young and perhaps the public member; 

Note on the meeting, this error more than twice occurs:

a. I tasked the thread below at the end of all this and after having carefully viewed the meeting: "In the transcript, ND Young says "the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners is under some federal scrutiny as is a lot of the accrediting boards in general."  Is that an accurate statement or is it the CNME that is under scrutiny?"

The answer: "Critical Finding: Dr. Young's statement is factually incorrect. Dr. Young conflates two completely different organizations and significantly misstates which entity faces federal scrutiny: What Dr. Young said (transcript): "the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners is under some federal scrutiny as is a lot of the accrediting boards in general federally". The factual reality is that there are two separate organizations:

MD Tavel’s news-press.com Critical Article on Florida's 2026 Naturopathy Bill S. 688, a “Polished Report” Comportment, and CFI’s Engagement

here, as titled, in brief:

001. Morton Tavel, M.D. has written a critical opinion titled “Florida Poised to Allow Quackery as 'Legitimate' Health Care” dated 2026-05-22;

002. Perplexity was given this task:

“How does the attached Tavel PDF comport with the findings of the attached CT Science & Ethics PDF?”

[my CT Science & Ethics PDF is here]

003. the answer, in part:

“Tavel's article and the Connecticut Science & Ethics report are very consistent in their core conclusions about naturopathy: both characterize it as non–evidence‑based, structurally unsafe as a primary‑care substitute, and prone to misleading patients about both scope and efficacy.

Overall Alignment

Tavel argues naturopathy is a pseudoscientific system whose vitalistic framework and treatment claims are not grounded in modern biomedical evidence.

The CT Science & Ethics report empirically documents 45 distinct types of scientific,clinical, and ethical problems in Connecticut naturopathic practice, including “vitalistic language,” “vague physiological concepts,” and extensive use of unsupported modalities such as homeopathy and blood-type diets.

In combination, Tavel supplies the conceptual critique (why the belief system is pseudoscientific), while the CT report supplies case‑based data showing those same patterns in real‑world licensed practice.”

004. the Center for Inquiry web page that Tavel mentions in his piece is titled “Florida: Urge Your Governor to Veto Pro-Naturopathy Legislation” and states, in part:

“CFI is concerned that S. 688 will broadly allow the practice of naturopathy in Florida, subject to few limitations, even though naturopathy is a discredited and dangerous form of quackery. Naturopathy fails to meet the rigors of science-based medicine, and it is rejected by nearly every medical expert because it relies on unproven or disproven treatments such as energy healing and homeopathic remedies.”

That page also links to the broader CFI page “Opposing Naturopathy: Medical Privileges Should Be For Medical Doctors."