here, I cite from 2 current pamphlets the University of Bridgeport [UB] uses to advertise for paying patients for their naturopathy clinic [see 001., below] and acupuncture clinic [see 002., below]; then, I quote from sources quite in disagreement [see 003., below]:
001. UB writes in the pamphlet “Naturopathic Medical Clinic”:
“the University of Bridgeport Health Science Center. Quality and affordable healthcare. Naturopathic medical clinic […] Health Sciences Center, 60 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604.”
Here's a glimpse:
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002. UB also writes in “Acupuncture Clinic”:
Here's a glimpse:
Note: apparently, quality is the same thing as absurdity, wherein a University takes your money under the label of science, when truly the domain in question's essential premises are science-ejected. Fascinating 'junk thought'.
002. UB also writes in “Acupuncture Clinic”:
“the University of Bridgeport Health Science Center. Quality and affordable healthcare. Acupuncture clinic […] acupuncture is a health science […] Health Sciences Center, 60 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604.”
Here's a glimpse:
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003. my favorite antidote quotes to the above [false] claims:
003.a. regarding naturopathy, there is the Center for Inquiry's Richard Hull who states:
003. my favorite antidote quotes to the above [false] claims:
003.a. regarding naturopathy, there is the Center for Inquiry's Richard Hull who states:
"naturopathy is a fraudulent approach to medical causation, depending on the hypothetical 'life force' that supposedly guides healing. No life force has ever been detected, nor has any other supernatural force or being."
Note: here is UB's requisite vitalism and supernaturalism.
003.b. regarding acupuncture, there is Science-Based Medicine's Ben Kavoussi who writes::
"as long as Chinese metaphysics and vitalism are perceived as anything but pre-scientific and disproved worldviews, pseudo-doctors and purveyors of TCM woo-woo will continue to provide the community of believers with medical astrology, alchemy, humoral pathology and even dialogue with the dead, heal with incantations, crystals, colors or sounds, remotely or via touch, and make implausible medical claims –- all with the full blessing and endorsement of the CA Department of Consumer Affairs."
Note: I include CT in that list of endorsers of sCAM, both in terms of the general consumer and the education consumer.
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From this 2005 post of mine:
Expelled
The University of Bridgeport was founded in 1927 as the Junior College of Connecticut. Along the way, it became a four-year institution and became private and not-for profit.
In the late 1980s, the school fell oon hard times financially, and faced closure in 1991. It accepted significant financial funding thereafter from the Professors' World Peace Academy, which is a "front organization" of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement. The university's about page reads,
Significant financial support from the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), a non-profit international organization of academicians dedicated to world peace through education, has enabled the University to continue a commitment to excellence while maintaining a great tradition of the liberal arts and its professional programs to respond to the changing needs of society.
According to this article in Wikipedia, the school has "accepted a total of $110 million in support" from PWPA. The former head of the Unification Church in United States, Neil Salonen, is the university president.
In May of 2003, Salonen reported that the university had manaaged to balance its budget without support from PWPA.
I'm not much into criticizing an explicit religion / cult of personality / Christian-sectarian domain. Freedom of conscience is a fundamental human right. What irks me about UB is the sheer absurdity of labeling the clearly science-ejected and nonscientific "science", and particularly the naturopathic-sectarian. This, I believe, is a violation of general human rights principles.
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