Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Google Trends: The Decline in 'Naturopathic News' These Last Few Years

here, using Google's Trends, a look a the prevelance in "news" aka "interest" of the term "naturopathic" and future prediction:

001. Google's Trends tells us, this 2015-09:

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002. and yet, we're told, by the AANMC, in "Growth of the Profession":

"the growing patient interest [...] as it grows, the ND profession  [...] this growth of the naturopathic medical profession [...] the growing public interest in integrated medical services [...] the growth of multi-disciplinary practices [...]";

and I think there's a disconnect here: the supposed growth of an area that has been diminishing in newsworthyness.  This is a sign, I believe, of the LACK of establishment of naturopathy's scientific basis.  Nothing remarkable has been generated of rigorous scientific merit, in terms of the "essentially" naturopathic to generate NEWS.

By the way, "integrative", in terms of "news", trends STAGNANT as well:
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